A Pentagon video obtained by The Intercept envisions a dystopian future for global megacities as populations in the developing world shift from rural to dense urban environments. Although the problems discussed are politically and socially complex,...

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Six years ago, I floated a business plan for building a new type of company (an open source venture). An open source venture is structured… (more…)

Researchers at DeepMind propose a new technique that automatically discovers a reinforcement learning algorithm from scratch. (more…)

Google wants to spread its AI revolution to China. But the revolution has already arrived. (more…)