In the next 25 years, AI will evolve to the point where it will know more on an intellectual level than any human. In the next 50 or 100 years, an AI might know more than the entire population of the planet put together. At that point, there are serious q... (more…)

Artificial Intelligence Scientist. Scientific Director of the Swiss AI Lab, IDSIA, DTI, SUPSI; Prof. of AI, Faculty of Informatics, USI, Lugano; Co-founder &... (more…)

Companies will soon be able to monitor eye movement, expressions, gestures and body posture, in order to predict the future actions of customers, voters, job candidates -- nearly anyone who is communicating via video. (more…)

Epistemic Status: moderately confident Deep learning has revolutionized the world of artificial intelligence. But how much does it improve performance?  How have computers gotten better at differen…...

The creators of Apache Spark now have a fresh $140 million to bring AI to the 99% of companies they say are as yet unsuccessful in working with the new tech. (more…)