A Northwestern University team developed a new computational model that performs at human levels on a standard intelligence test. This work is an important step toward making artificial intelligence systems that see and understand the world as humans do.

Jeff Dean is a Google Senior Fellow in the Research Group, where he leads the Google Brain project. He spoke to the YC AI group this summer. Watch the talk and read his slides here. (more…)

IBM plans to make a 10-year, $240 million investment in new lab with MIT to advance AI hardware, software, and algorithms. (more…)

Artificial intelligence in the form of "digital touchpoints" like chatbots are becoming common -- and essential... (more…)

A framework called ParlAI will let researchers combine dialogue systems and get feedback from real humans. (more…)