This chip was demoed at Jeff Bezos’s secretive tech conference. It could be key to the future of AI.
The chip on show at Amazon’s MARS event—alongside karate-chopping robots and Martian bases—is many times faster than con...
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The three challenges keeping cars from being fully autonomous
Technical, regulatory, and business obstacles are still in the way of safe, useful, and affordable self-driving vehicles...
Optimizing the engineering life cycle requires digital transformation
To cope with rising product complexity and crushing amounts of data, teams must embrace the cloud to maintain a competit...
AI’s white guy problem isn’t going away
A new report says current initiatives to fix the field’s diversity crisis are too narrow and shallow to be effective.
Congress wants to protect you from biased algorithms, deepfakes, and other bad AI
Only a few legislators really know what they’re talking about, but it’s a start.
A robot has figured out how to use tools
In a startling demonstration, the machine drew on experimentation, data, and observation of humans to learn how simple i...
This robot can sort recycling by giving it a squeeze
The robot, called RoCycle, uses pincers to pick through garbage and identify what materials each bit contains. It could...
Two rival AI approaches combine to let machines learn about the world like a child
Together, deep learning and symbolic reasoning create a program that learns in a remarkably humanlike way.
Hey Google, sorry you lost your ethics council, so we made one for you
We asked experts for practical suggestions on why Google’s AI ethics council bombed and what the company should do next.
Facebook’s ad-serving algorithm discriminates by gender and race
Even if an advertiser is well-intentioned, the algorithm still prefers certain groups of people over others.
