IBM Watson joins Arthritis Research UK to provide virtual AI voice assistants. (more…)

If you are a weed, we have some somber news. John Deere, the farm equipment company that's been chasing autonomous technology for more than 20 years, has agreed to buy Blue River Technology, a startup that uses AI to automatically identify and spray herbi... (more…)

Cloud didn't make the scientific method irrelevant in '08—AI won't do it in '17, either. (more…)

 These principles were developed in conjunction with the 2017 Asilomar conference (videos here), through the process described here. Artificial intelligence has already provided beneficial tools that are used every day by people around the world. Its con...

In his relatively short tenure, Pope Francis has been hard at work welcoming spiritual seekers into the Catholic Church. He’s refused to judge LGBT people, sought to integrate divorced couples, and extended priests’ ability to forgive abortion. But Fr...