Epistemic Status: moderately confident Deep learning has revolutionized the world of artificial intelligence. But how much does it improve performance?  How have computers gotten better at differen…...

Ben Goertzel is Chief Scientist of robotics firm Hanson Robotics, Chairman of AI software company Novamente LLC, Chairman of the Artificial General Intellige... (more…)

Even professional lip-readers can figure out only 20% to 60% of what a person is saying. Slight movements of a person's lips at the speed of natural speech are immensely difficult to reliably understand, especially from a distance or if the lips are ob...

LONDON,UK — July 16, 2017.  Chatbots, software used to simulate text-based business-to-consumer conversations, have grown considerably smarter in recent years with the ongoing advances in artificial intelligence and are fast becoming an effective marketin... (more…)

Many in the InfoSec community are currently making a major mistake by dismissing the ML/AI craze as hype. There are two main causes for this reaction. 1. T... (more…)