In 1997, IBM’s Deep Blue beat world chess champion Gary Kasparov, the first time an AI technology was able to outperform a world expert in a highly complicated endeavor. It was even more impressive when you consider they were using 1997 computational powe... (more…)

Microsoft's new initiative aims to fund start-ups that build AI that has a positive impact on society.

Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent Holdings said on Tuesday it will open an artificial intelligence (AI) research facility in Seattle in the United States, to be led by former Microsoft scientist Yu Dong. (more…)

The Lisp programming language is often described as the first functional programming language and also as an important early AI language. In the history of functional programming, however, it occupies... (more…)

Smart HR bots can ignore a job applicant's gender, age, and ethnicity. But there's no such thing as bias-free data. (more…)