The machine learning techniques scientists use to predict outcomes from large datasets may fall short when it comes to projecting the outcomes of people’s lives, according to a large-scale mass collaboration led by researchers at Princeton. (more…)

Artificial intelligence has been hailed as a monumental technology that will change the world, but coronavirus is showing that it is still in its infancy. (more…)

With the release of OpenAI's GPT-3 the topic of AI writing code is hot again. GPT-3 is a natural language model that, given some examples, tries to predict appropriate text output for a given text input. Since code is just text, there's the question of wh... (more…)

Two new books about machine creativity mostly reveal how little appreciation we still have for the full range of human creativity. (more…)

Silicon Valley executives and lobbyists like to say they embrace regulation. Now they’re launching a frenzy of lobbying on what they want that regulation to be—and Europe is set to be one of the first battlegrounds. (more…)