The brains behind Google's DeepMind and Elon Musk's OpenAI are studying the ways AIs learn. The goal: to keep machines from going rogue. (more…)

A decade ago, the artificial-intelligence pioneer Geoffrey Hinton transformed the field with a major breakthrough. Now he’s chasing the next big advance—with an "imaginary system" named GLOM, outlined in a recent paper titled, "How to represent part-whole... (more…)

At the least, AI-generated code is much more readable than the average human's. (more…)

Eric Schmidt, the former top executive of Google, described artificial intelligence as a linchpin in global power struggles and warned the U.S. could fall behind rivals like China unless it elevates AI as a cornerstone of national security. (more…)

Frequentism and bayesianism is two paradigms or schools of statistics. I’m by no means an expert in statistics and you don’t have to be either to read this post. Actually pretty simple to understand without prior knowledge about statistics.  S... (more…)