Ray Kurzweil, Rodney Brooks, and others weigh in on the future of artificial intelligence... (more…)

Are you alarmed and dismayed by Trump’s populism / authoritarianism? Do you prefer to live in a relatively peaceful and free liberal… (more…)

Researchers have created a heuristically trained neural network that outperformed conventional machine learning algorithms by 160 percent and its own training by 9 percent. This new teaching method could enable AI to make correct classifications of data t...

A little more than a year ago I published a blog post benchmarking different ruby implementations against a bot that plays Go which I wrote. Now a little than a year later (~13.5 months) let’…...

The dirty little secret of automation is that people make it possible.