In February of last year, the San Francisco–based research lab OpenAI announced that its AI system could now write convincing passages of English. Feed the beginning of a sentence or paragraph into GPT-2, as it was called, and it could continue the though... (more…)

Good morning!Here’s your weekly roundup of Middle East AI News!A $20 million funding round for AI-powered health insurance tech startup Sehteq, Saudi and UAE startup competitions, reviews of Dubai and Saudi Arabia's fintech ecosystems, plus many other sto... (more…)

Minerva AI issued 90,000 warnings after monitoring in-game chat. (more…)

Microsoft says it's using an AI service -- Nudge -- to accelerate pull requests in software development projects. (more…)

Perhaps you heard about Tay, Microsoft’s experimental Twitter chat-bot, and how within a day it became so offensive that Microsoft had to shut it down and never speak of it again. And you ass… (more…)