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…)

Writing crawlers to extract data from websites is a seemingly intractable problem. The issue is that while it’s easy to build a one-off… (more…)

In February of last year, the San Francisco–based research lab OpenAI announced that its AI system could now write convincing passages of English. Feed the beginning of a sentence or paragraph into GPT-2, as it was called, and it could continue the though... (more…)

Researchers at Facebook have developed a framework, Vx2Text, that can generate captions by inferring from videos, audio, and text. (more…)

I’m a big fan of comforting TV, and one of my go-tos is the Great British Bakeoff. It’s the cheerful clarinet-filled soundtrack, the low-stakes baking-centric tension, and the general good-natured kindness of the bakers to one another. (more…)