People + AI Research (PAIR) is a multidisciplinary team at Google that explores the human side of AI. (more…)

The telecoms giant plans to shed up to 40% of its workforce by the end of the decade to cut costs. (more…)

Nadella thinks Microsoft and its tech rivals should focus AI on tasks that help humans rather than replace jobs.

I wrote earlier about a neural net-powered dungeon crawling text adventure game called GPT-2-Adventure in which gameplay is incoherent and dreamlike, as you encounter slippery sign text, circular passages, and unexpected lozenge rooms. A PhD student named... (more…)

AMD will acquire Nod.AI, an open-source AI software startup, to expand the chipmaker's AI software operations, AMD announced Tuesday. (more…)