Li Yang Ku, a researcher at robotics firm Vicarious AI, trained the AI to rap by feeding it classic lines from Jay-Z, Kanye West, Eminem, and Snoop Dogg... (more…)

A Silicon Valley lobby enrolled elite academia to avoid legal restrictions on artificial intelligence. (more…)

Geoffrey Hinton expresses doubts about neural training method... (more…)

An AI character was made an official resident of a busy central Tokyo district on Saturday, with the virtual newcomer resembling a chatty seven-year-old boy. The boy named "Shibuya Mirai" does not exist physically, but he can have text conversations with... (more…)

Artificial intelligence is years, even decades, from replicating functions of the human mind, but it’s still getting serious work done today. And its influence will only expand. The irony of all that promise: Human minds are way behind. Relatively few hav... (more…)