SHRDLU was an early natural language understanding computer program, developed by Terry Winograd at MIT in 1968–1970. In it, the user carries on a conversation with the computer, moving objects, naming collections and querying the state of a simplified "... (more…)

The story starts out like a bad joke: Obama, Clinton and Trump walk into a bar, where they applauded a new startup based in Montreal, Canada called Lyrebird. Skeptical? Here’s a recording. Sound clip credit: Lyrebird If the scenario seems too bizarre to b... (more…)

To replicate ourselves in AI, we first have to embrace human error—and as sci-fi writer Hugh Howey argues, we probably shouldn't. (more…)

China has taken over the final ImageNet, an influential AI contest that gave birth to the current deep learning craze back in 2012. (more…)

After news of Banjo's white supremacist ties halted a $20.7 million AI contract, a state of Utah audit found no AI to evaluate. (more…)