Facebook today announced Habitat 2.0, an updated version of its simulation environment, alongside new datasets and benchmarks. (more…)

The AI is meant to support our decision-making by taking in and processing huge amounts of information in a nuanced way, more quickly than we ever could. (more…)

Kevin Scott's interest in technology as a boy lit a spark that would take him from rural Virginia to key roles at Google and LinkedIn before joining Microsoft as its chief technology officer. Now, he wants to inspire kids who are like he was to pursue the... (more…)

For people like Heather Bollin, a 43-year-old woman in Texas engaged to a man who is currently incarcerated, constant surveillance is a fact of life: the three daily phone calls they have together are subject to monitoring by prison officials. (more…)

Facebook AI researchers open-sourced CraftAssist, a framework for building interactive assistants for the Minecraft video game. The bots use natural language understanding (NLU) to parse and execute text commands from human players, such as requests to bu... (more…)