Mattel is cancelling Aristotle, a device described as “Alexa for kids,” after facing criticism from lawmakers and parents’ groups. In a statement, Mattel said Aristotle did not “fully align with Mattel’s new technology strategy” and would not bring the de... (more…)

Google has gone live with its sentence compression algorithms, which use a neural network trained by dozens of linguists to directly answer users' search engine questions. While this process of supervised learning is complicated and expensive, tech compa...

Despite plenty of hype and frantic investment, a leading artificial intelligence expert says hardware advances will keep AI breakthroughs coming.

Originally published in SoapBox Most people would have heard of the headline-making tremendous achievements in artificial intelligence (AI): Systems... (more…)

Scared of a future where you can no longer discern if you're dealing with a human or a computer? A team of Australian researchers have come up with what they call the Anti-AI AI . (more…)