Inspired by both medieval siege engines and the recent release of Unity’s reinforcement learning SDK I taught a catapult to both identify, aim, and destroy a “missile” (in this case, a loving, rendered cylinder). The following post is full of fun gifs of... (more…)

Drills involving swarms of drones raise questions about whether machines could outperform a human operator in complex scenarios. (more…)

Kaggle, a website that hosts public competitions on machine learning tasks, announced Tuesday that it now has over 1 million users a little more than 7 years after it launched. ... (more…)

Google may be buying heavens only knows how many GPUs to run HPC and AI workloads on its eponymous public cloud, and it may have talked recently about how... (more…)

A new domain-specific artificial intelligence programming language developed at MIT allows for error-free, exact, automatic solutions to hard AI problems — and it’s thousands of times faster than alternatives. The researchers' Sum-Product Probabi... (more…)