Sebastian Thrun has a history of getting in front of trends. He's known as one of the inventors of self-driving cars, helped launch Google's [x] moonshot lab, co-founded online education startup Udacity, and has most recently gotten press for his work bui... (more…)

The MIT researcher says that for humans to flourish we must move beyond thinking of robots as potential future competitors... (more…)

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The Decadal Survey, expected at the end of September, sets the tone for a new era of space exploration. One team of researchers wants the survey to use AI to forecast growing science fields. (more…)

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