Chinese social media and gaming giant Tencent Holdings said on Tuesday it will open an artificial intelligence (AI) research facility in Seattle in the United States, to be led by former Microsoft scientist Yu Dong. (more…)

Visa said it has developed a more advanced artificial intelligence system that can approve or decline credit and debit transactions on behalf of banks whose own networks are down. (more…)

AI can be the most disruptive tech of the 21st century because it is a general-purpose tech (not limited to say hauling loads). AI also has zero distribution costs (being digital). But the value AI brings to the world is distributed unevenly. Let's consid... (more…)

Europe is increasingly worried it’s being left out of the global race for artificial intelligence. (more…)

Practitioners in the closely related domains of robotics and machine learning have long had a problem when it comes to fielding real-world solutions. Systems need to be trained to operate […]... (more…)