Much of the conversation about machine learning taking jobs focuses on the future, but Microsoft boasted its cloud service has already managed to claim one human's position. The Custom Decision Service, which the company introduced at its Build conference... (more…)

The European Commission has issued a series of awards to companies to develop interactive conversational artificial intelligence. The largest award has been given to Intelligent Voice. (more…)

In this new Explained Simply series I take advanced essays, research papers etc on cutting-edge technical topics, and simplify their… (more…)

If you believe Elon Musk, then AI is going to kill us all. So why is it in everything from home assistants to washing machines? (more…)

Artificial intelligence is getting smarter by leaps and bounds — within this century, research suggests, a computer AI could be as "smart" as a human being. (more…)