People often criticize AI tested in “toy cases,” or datasets that may have limited significance in the real world. With COVID-19, that’s no longer the case. (more…)

AI technology is here, and is not as far out of our experience as we expected. Yet it has exposed to us the urgency of apparently familiar challenges such as power and liberty scaled very large by ubiquitous access to information... (more…)

Andrew Ng, formerly of Google and Baidu, has a new company to help manufacturers use artificial intelligence techniques. (more…)

Researchers at Microsoft have developed an AI for the firm's Teams videoconferencing software that highlights positive audience reactions during a virtual presentation... (more…)

A Chinese court has ruled that AI-generated works are entitled to copyright protection, in a win for tech giant Tencent. (more…)