I'm fascinated by stories in the news of how the world's best AIs for chess and Go were trained by playing against themselves. It seems like a wonderful tool for learning more about the strategy of a game, as well as a useful tool for designing new games. (more…)

This year, we received a record 2680 valid submissions to the main conference, of which 2620 were fully reviewed (the others were either administratively rejected for technical or ethical reasons or withdrawn before review). ... (more…)

Patient data from just three states trains most AI diagnostic tools. (more…)

Twitter's META team is made up of some of tech's most notorious critics, and two more will soon be joining them: Sarah Roberts and Kristian Lum. (more…)

#Awesome “…Machine learning has enabled virtual reality to feel more “real” than ever before… is standing on the edge of the roof of a Minecraft cathedral in VR mode scarier than looking over the…...