Level 2-assisted driving, especially in-city driving, is worse than useless. It's stupid. (more…)

#200 | Join us for a conversation with artist Ai Weiwei and Rail Editor-at-Large Paul D. Miller (aka DJ Spooky). We’ll conclude with a poetry reading from Mirene Arsanios. (more…)

Amazon has kicked off its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas and made three major AI announcements. During a midnight keynote, Amazon unveiled Transcribe Medical, SageMaker Operators for Kubernetes, and DeepComposer. Transcribe Medical The first ann... (more…)

The USPTO rejected two patents applications written by a "creativity engine" named DABUS. Now a lawsuit raises fundamental questions about what it means to be creative. (more…)

An artificial intelligence model can detect people who are asymptomatic with Covid-19, through cellphone-recorded coughs. The work was led by Brian Subirana and colleagues at the MIT Auto-ID Lab. (more…)