From tagging people on social media to identifying travelers at ports of entry, facial recognition technology has become commonplace. Now, a young company is looking to save lives with it. More than 30 million Americans — 80 percent of them children — suf... (more…)

Xu Li’s software scans more faces than maybe any on earth. He has the Chinese police to thank. (more…)

TechCrunch reports that Apple has acquired Regaind, a French computer vision startup that specializes in working out if photos are interesting. TechCrunch cites “multiple sources” in sa… (more…)

Forget the Turing test. Computing pioneer Alan Turing's most pertinent thoughts on machine intelligence come from a neglected paragraph of the same paper that first proposed his famous test for whether a computer could be considered as smart as a human. (more…)

"The patent reads like the table of contents of an intro to AI textbook."... (more…)