Whether it’s winning at games like Go or keeping watch for Russian influence operations, the best AI-powered systems require humans to play an active role in their creation, tending and operation. (more…)

Deep learning is changing how Google's search engine works. But its new-found efficiency takes a lot of painstaking human work behind the scenes.

As AI systems become more general and more useful in the real world, ensuring they behave safely will become even more important. To date, the majority of AI safety research has focused on developing a theoretical understanding about the nature and causes... (more…)

- By Jade Boyd , Rice University - When surgeons remove cancer, one of the first questions is, “Did they get it all?” Researchers from Rice University and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer... (more…)

An artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at DeepMind and the University of Oxford got so good by watching 5000 hours of BBC programmes...