Every year, Microsoft hosts the Imagine Cup. Young developers often call it the “Olympics of Technology” and consider it one of the top… (more…)

When I read Machine Learning papers, I ask myself whether the contributions of the paper fall under improvements to 1) Expressivity 2) Train... (more…)

My guest this week is Risto Miikkulainen, professor of computer science at UT-Austin and vice president of Research at Sentient Technologies. Risto came locked and loaded to discuss a topic that we've received a ton of requests for -- evolutionary algorit... (more…)

At long last, the AI research community is showing signs of waking up from its decades-old, self-induced stupor. Deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton has finally acknowledged something that many of… (more…)

Our two previous blog entries implied that there is a role games can play in driving the development of Reinforcement Learning algorithms. As the world’s m... (more…)