Alphabet is seen as the tech industry’s top destination for artificial intelligence engineers and scientists. But Alphabet also has been more aggressive in acquiring AI startups than other tech firms. Its Google unit bought nine between January 2014 and...

Google is trying to get its hooks into the world's top deep learning talent before its competitors do.

Epistemic Status: moderately confident Deep learning has revolutionized the world of artificial intelligence. But how much does it improve performance?  How have computers gotten better at differen…...

Artificial intelligence has been around since the 1950s but is exploding in popularity recently, especially in the world of finance. The idea that an inv... (more…)

The artificial intelligence program beat a team of six human players. (more…)