“How crazy is this start to the Habs’ season?!” I think we all know the answer to that question (especially if you live in Montreal!), ...

About a year ago, I wrote that mounting AI hype would likely give way to yet another AI winter. Now, according to the panelists at “the world’s leading academic AI conference” the temperature is already falling. (more…)

EXCERPT: Intel has acquired AI chip startup Habana Labs for $2B. Let’s look at what this means for Intel, which has spent over three years working to deliver the Nervana solution for AI since it acquired the company in 2016. (more…)

Open AI’s Sam Altman sits down with Azeem Azhar to give his perspective on the evolution of artificial intelligence and its impact on politics, education and... (more…)

In a previous post, I described teaching a humanoid to walk by imitating a fellow humanoid. Here I give my humanoid the capability to learn on its own. The humanoid’s only resources are the Proximal Policy Optimization algorithm, two randomly initialized ... (more…)