Omega, the official timekeeper of the Games, is now using computer vision and motion sensors for events like swimming, gymnastics, and beach volleyball. (more…)

Technology offers rookie customer service staff chance to hone their pacification skills on non-humans before being posted to the frontline. (more…)

OpenAI’s API is incredibly versatile at comprehending text and completing passages, finding data and generating new information. For fun I wanted to see what would happen if I supplied it with a di… (more…)

The US government plans to vastly expand its reliance on artificial intelligence, but it is years behind on policies to responsibly acquire and use the technology from the private sector, according to a new federal oversight report. (more…)

Stephen Wolfram explores the potential--and limitations--of AI in science. See cases in which AI will be a useful tool, and a less ideal tool in others. (more…)