A few months later, on a morning this January, a team of four radiologists-in-training huddled in front of a computer in a third-floor room of the hospital. The room was windowless and dark, aside from the light from the screen, which looked as if it had ... (more…)

The game results show that placing slightly “noisy” bots in a central location (high-degree nodes) improves human coordination by reducing same-color... (more…)

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,...

The field of artificial intelligence may finally be coming back around to Douglas Hofstadter. Since winning a Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction for his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Hofstadter, 72, has been quietly thinking about thin... (more…)

Arriving now: Uber's Chief Scientist Zoubin Ghahramani introduces Uber AI Labs' newest team member, award-winning neuroscientist Peter Dayan. (more…)