Driven by a fear of losing out, many companies have announced AI-focused initiatives. Unfortunately, most of these efforts will fail. This isn’t the first time companies have made this mistake. Back in the late 90s, the big buzz was around the internet. M... (more…)

We are holding a competition on sample-efficient reinforcement learning using human priors. Standard methods require months to years of game time to attain human performance in complex games such as Go and StarCraft. In our competition, participants dev... (more…)

Today, Snapchat is taking a big step in its quest to encourage users to spend more time in the app. The company is rolling out major updates to its augmented reality (AR) platform that will allow users to query third-party apps with their hands, translate... (more…)

Economist Jeffrey Sachs says the market for physical labor is evaporating. Is the idea of work becoming obsolete? (more…)

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has been working to improve the state of global health through his nonprofit foundation for 20 years, and today he told the nation's premier scientific gathering that advances in artificial intelligence and gene editing cou... (more…)