By providing unprecedented access to computational resources, cloud computing has enabled rapid growth in technologies such as machine learning, the computational demands of which incur a high energy cost and a commensurate carbon footprint. As a result, ... (more…)

IRobot, the company that makes the Roomba, is trying to eliminate messy accidents with the use of artificial intelligence. On Thursday iRobot announced a new Roomba robot vacuum cleaner called the j7+ that uses AI to spot and stay away from pet poop and p... (more…)

Jeff Dean is a Google Senior Fellow in the Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain project. He spoke to the YC AI group this summer. Watch the talk and read his slides here. (more…)

Generative AI is what many expect to be the next big technology boom, and being what it is — AI — could have far-reaching implications far beyond what we'd e... (more…)

Videos posted to TikTok are illustrating just how woefully ill-prepared automation is at taking fast food orders. (more…)