The facial recognition database firm must pay more than £7.5m and delete data it holds of UK residents. (more…)

Deep reinforcement learning has trained AIs to beat humans at complex games like Go and StarCraft. Could it also do a better job at running the economy? (more…)

Last August, my research group created a forecasting contest to predict AI progress on four benchmarks. Forecasts were asked to predict state-of-the-art performance (SOTA) on each benchmark for June… (more…)

Michael Schumacher’s family are planning legal action against a German weekly magazine over an ‘interview’ that was generated by artificial intelligence... (more…)

Critics of AI risk suggest diminishing returns to computing (formalized asymptotically) means AI will be weak; this argument relies on a large number of questionable premises and ignoring additional resources, constant factors, and nonlinear returns to sm... (more…)