Japan's Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance will use artificial intelligence instead of humans to calculate payouts.

The 2016 Expert Survey on Progress in AI is a survey of machine learning researchers that AI Impacts ran in collaboration with others in 2016. (more…)

This year, we received a record 2680 valid submissions to the main conference, of which 2620 were fully reviewed (the others were either administratively rejected for technical or ethical reasons or withdrawn before review). ... (more…)

High-end, custom-built "field programmable gate arrays" will run Bing, Office 365, and Azure.

In the early 1960s, a robot that could think for itself was the stuff of science fiction. When Charles Rosen, a researcher at the Artificial Intelligence Center of Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International), proposed building one in 1964, his ide... (more…)