No one really knows how the most advanced algorithms do what they do. That could be a problem. (more…)

The Google subsidiary solved a fundamental problem in biology but didn’t promptly share their solution. So a University of Washington team tried to recreate it. (more…)

Merlon Intelligence CEO and veteran investor on what AI companies are doing right and wrong—and why some strategies are doomed. (more…)

[co-authored with Ajay Agrawal and Avi Goldfarb; originally published on HBR.org on 26th July 2017] With the recent explosion in AI, there has been the understandable concern about its potential im… (more…)

An MIT CSAIL-led group is drawing on an underused resource — the vast body of radiology reports that accompany medical images, written by radiologists in routine clinical practice — in order to improve the interpretive abilities of machine learning algori... (more…)