Turing Award winner Geoffrey Everest Hinton spoke about his recent research, his quest to understand learning in the brain and why he sees unsupervised learning as the future of AI. (more…)

In which I discuss the ridiculous media narrative spun around a single sentence from an otherwise perfectly normal research paper. Based on this: https://www... (more…)

Microsoft has announced an expansion to its AI for Earth program, committing an additional $50 million to organizations that are working to solve the climate change crisis. ... (more…)

Videos of Barack Obama made from existing audio, video of him... (more…)

People use their faces to communicate in subtle ways. A Facebook conversational bot trained on Skype chats had reactions indistinguishable from human ones... (more…)