AI is going to become our guide and companion — and take millions of jobs away. We can deny it, be angry or ignore it. But if we do, we will be the losers. (more…)

    What goes up must go down, and the hype around AI will inevitably deflate sooner or later.   One unfortunate consequence of the hype is that it created the widely-shared perception that AI reac… (more…)

I can now query my solar panels via my Alexa Amazon Dot Echo thingie (why so many names?). I flatter myself as a reasonably competent techie and programmer, but fuck me AWS Lambdas and Alexa skills… (more…)

The new trick is aimed at viewers who are watching video on mobile devices... (more…)

DeepMind’s Go game-playing AI—which dominated its human competition—just got better... (more…)