Even professional lip-readers can figure out only 20% to 60% of what a person is saying. Slight movements of a person's lips at the speed of natural speech are immensely difficult to reliably understand, especially from a distance or if the lips are ob...

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" –Arthur C. Clarke Our fear of technology is deeply rooted in society. Some countries, mostly in East-Asia are more open to embrace unknown technologies than others. Those from my own t... (more…)

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.

Scientists working in artificial intelligence need to do a better job of explaining the promises and perils of the emerging technology, two of the top figures working in that field said. (more…)

Artificial Intelligence is already outsmarting us at '80s computer games by finding ways to beat games that developers didn't even know were there. Just wait... (more…)