Major League Baseball teams draft roughly 1,500 prospects annually, but less than 20% eventually make the jump to the majors. Building on statistical ideas and methods best known through the 2003 book "Moneyball," University of Maryland researchers may he... (more…)

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has been talking for months about accomplishing a potentially impossible task: passing bipartisan legislation within the next year that encourages the rapid development of artificial intelligence and mitigates its bigg... (more…)

In this episode of the AI Alignment Podcast, Paul Scharre discusses what autonomous weapons are, their potential benefits and risks, and the on going debate around the regulation of their development and use. (more…)

The world will likely breach the internationally agreed-upon climate change threshold in about a decade, and keep heating to break through a next warming limit around mid-century even with big pollution cuts, artificial intelligence predicts in a new stud... (more…)

After discovering the amazing power of convolutional neural networks for image recognition in part five of this series, I decided to dive… (more…)