Sep 5, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence
Four years ago, more than 700 computer scientists competed in a contest to build artificial intelligence that could pass an eighth-grade science test. There was $80,000 in prize money on the line. They all flunked. Even the most sophisticated system couldn’t do better...
Aug 28, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured, Regulation
As artificial intelligence increasingly pervades technologies and businesses, the Patent and Trademark Office wants the public to weigh in on the difficulties that come with patenting it. The agency posed a series of questions regarding topics across patent policies...
Aug 22, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured
Human beings tend to bury objects that they consider most important to their lives. It’s not surprising, therefore, that some people chose to buy games, including board games. Some of these artifacts have survived the centuries, leaving modern-day archaeologists with...
Aug 15, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence
DeepMind, likely the world’s largest research-focused artificial intelligence operation, is losing a lot of money fast, more than $1 billion in the past three years. DeepMind also has more than $1 billion in debt due in the next 12 months. Does this mean that AI is...
Aug 15, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured
When the robot revolution comes, the weapons robots use to destroy us could be cobbled together from the scraps of our own society. You’ve been warned. More realistically, though, researchers like a group at Georgia Tech are trying to figure out how robots can help us...
Aug 7, 2019 | Artificial Intelligence
A hot trend in artificial intelligence in recent years has been the rise of impressive fakes — fake headshots, fake videos, fake text. Deep learning techniques, part of machine learning, have gotten better and better at taking real-world data and using it to...
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