Some of the world’s best-known brands have invested millions of dollars in information security. So have their adversaries. But malicious actors are counting on the fact that your defenses are operated mostly by humans and tend to be the same across the b... (more…)

A framework called ParlAI will let researchers combine dialogue systems and get feedback from real humans. (more…)

The way we talk about AI is a mess. It starts with the most obvious, the imagery. Just like stock photos of happy people pointing at whiteboards were a symbol of the modern workplace, wired brains and robots have now come to represent "the AI". But the vi... (more…)

An AI, in this case, an auto-helm took the wheel for most of a recent 750 mile (about 1,200km) sail from Hobart to Sydney in Australia. With the sail taking almost 2 weeks, I had some (a lot of) time… (more…)

For several years, Google, Facebook and Microsoft have been raiding the ranks of academia for artificial intelligence talent. Their idea is not just to grab an expert in the highly specialized field. It’s also to create a pipeline of AI talent coming out ... (more…)