Inspired by Jarvis in Iron Man, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg built an AI system to run his home and help him with work. Throughout the process, Zuckerberg realized we are still far off from understanding how artificial intelligence learns.

Google and others think software that learns to learn could take over some work done by AI experts.

Nokia might be working on a personal assistant to compete with Siri, Google Now, and Cortana, if it follows through with a new trademark application.

Anyone who has thought about scaling a business or building a network is familiar with a dynamic referred to as the "network effect." The more buyers and sellers who use a marketplace like eBay, for example, the more useful it becomes. Well, the data netw... (more…)

If you spend enough time listening to AI researchers it’s easy to start believing that if only we gave AI researchers enough funding and computational resources, they would eventually manage to solve everything else. Physics. Neuroscience. Economics. You ... (more…)