This year, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival is unveiling the world’s first A.I. comedian, aptly named, LOL-BOT. Developed locally in Melbourne, LO... (more…)

Google's deep learning AI system, originally designed for self-driving cars, can now diagnosis cancer more accurately than human physicians. (more…)

High-end, custom-built "field programmable gate arrays" will run Bing, Office 365, and Azure.

Yann LeCun, Facebook's head of AI, on Sunday urged Elon Musk to stop advising US President Donald Trump, and a top Google DeepMind scientist supported him.

The long read: Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns. Is there anything we can do to halt the advance of the killer robots? (more…)