A primer on automated story generation and how it it strikes at some fundamental research questions in artificial intelligence. (more…)

Oracle co-founder takes Amazon's database threat seriously... (more…)

Apps that use artificial intelligence to allow users to ID unknown specimens are making science more accessible to everyone. (more…)

In his new book Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, MIT physicist and AI researcher Max Tegmark explores the future of technology,... (more…)

Everyone is blown away by the new AI-based assistants. (Myself included: see an earlier article on this blog which, by the way, I would write differently today.) They pass bar exams and write songs. They also produce programs. Starting with Matt Welsh's a... (more…)