The US military wants AI to dream up weird new helicopters

A DARPA project aims to see if machine learning can change the way complex engineering systems are designed. Read more »

China wants to shape the global future of artificial intelligence

Drawing up technical standards is an early attempt to control how AI evolves worldwide. Read more »

AI tackles the Vatican’s secrets

Even church archivists don’t know what mysteries lie hidden in the Vatican Secret Archives, since many of its documents have never been transcribed. A machine-vision system for medieval text is about to... Read more »

Machines are coming for your March Madness office pool

Alphabet’s Kaggle will award $100K to the machine-learning algorithms that come closest to picking this year’s bracket. Read more »

AI assistants say dumb things, and we’re about to find out why

A new test could prove that when it comes to language, today’s best AI systems are fundamentally limited. Read more »

On-Device Processing and AI Go Hand-in-Hand

As on-device processing becomes more powerful, and AI grows more prevalent, our future will increasingly be defined by the convergence of these two game-changing trends Read more »

Your next computer could improve with age

Artificial intelligence is sweeping industries like medicine and finance. What if the machine you’re reading this on could learn too? Read more »

When an AI finally kills someone, who will be responsible?

Legal scholars are furiously debating which laws should apply to AI crime. Read more »

Google thinks it’s close to “quantum supremacy.” Here’s what that really means.

It’s not the number of qubits; it’s what you do with them that counts. Read more »

What regular Joes think about the one-armed robot baristas invading San Francisco

Speedy caffeine delivery is Café X’s X factor, and the coffee’s decent, too. Read more »