Today’s AI doesn’t just shuttle passengers and cargo. It wins races. Read more »
Other nations may soon join an international council to discuss the impact and the potential of artificial intelligence. Read more »
The think tank AINow has identified facial recognition as a key challenge for society and policymakers—but is it too late? Read more »
It navigates interruptions and other tricky features of human conversation to field millions of requests a day. Read more »
Some US experts think it could take at least 20 years to get quantum-proof encryption widely deployed. Read more »
Smartphones that are used to track our faces and voices could also help lower the barrier to mental-health diagnosis and treatment. Read more »
Creating a lifelike digital scene normally requires a skill, creativity, and patience. Now we can just offload the work to an AI algorithm. Read more »
Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are fueling creativity—and controversy. Here’s how they work. Read more »
Researchers at MIT and Facebook are proposing a new way to generate street addresses by extracting roads from satellite images. Read more »
Optical chips have been tried before—but the rise of deep learning may offer an opportunity to succeed where others have failed. Read more »