Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance Co. is planning to slash nearly 30 percent of its payment assessment department's human staff after it introduces an artificial intelligence (AI) system in January 2017 to improve operating efficiency.

Since the summer of 2018, I have been intensively studying Irish traditional music and accordion. This has been motivated in large part by my research in Ai applied haphazardly to such music. I nee… (more…)

Pope Francis recently devoted his monthly prayer intention to the safe and beneficial development of artificial intelligence. Though the prayer was expressed primarily in terms of reducing inequality, a theme this Pope has touched on often, its final plea... (more…)

February 2nd marks the start of a year filled with AI conferences. The 35th AAAI organized by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence is the first of many important conferences… (more…)

UNSW's Toby Walsh has organised a letter from Australia's AI research community to the Australian Government calling for it to support a ban on lethal autonomous weapons. (more…)