Racing ahead with artificial intelligence

Today’s AI doesn’t just shuttle passengers and cargo. It wins races. Read more »

Canada and France plan an international panel to assess AI’s dangers

Other nations may soon join an international council to discuss the impact and the potential of artificial intelligence. Read more »

Facial recognition has to be regulated to protect the public, says AI report

The think tank AINow has identified facial recognition as a key challenge for society and policymakers—but is it too late? Read more »

Alibaba already has a voice assistant way better than Google’s

It navigates interruptions and other tricky features of human conversation to field millions of requests a day. Read more »

Quantum computers pose a security threat that we’re still totally unprepared for

Some US experts think it could take at least 20 years to get quantum-proof encryption widely deployed. Read more »

Your smartphone’s AI algorithms could tell if you are depressed

Smartphones that are used to track our faces and voices could also help lower the barrier to mental-health diagnosis and treatment. Read more »

AI software can dream up an entire digital world from a simple sketch

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 »

Inside the world of AI that forges beautiful art and terrifying deepfakes

Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are fueling creativity—and controversy. Here’s how they work. Read more »

Four billion people lack an address. Machine learning could change that.

Researchers at MIT and Facebook are proposing a new way to generate street addresses by extracting roads from satellite images. Read more »

Making AI algorithms crazy fast using chips powered by light

Optical chips have been tried before—but the rise of deep learning may offer an opportunity to succeed where others have failed. Read more »