A self-taught AI is beating humans in a multiplayer game for the first time
Since the earliest days of virtual chess and solitaire, video games have been a playing field for developing artificial intelligence (AI). Each victory of...
Gamers are using machine learning to navigate complex video games
Some of the world’s most popular video games track your activity as you play – but they’re not just gathering data for business or...
An AI has spontaneously developed a human-like number sense
Numbers figure pretty high up on the list of what a computer can do well. While humans often struggle to split a restaurant bill,...
Does AI threaten democracy?
U.S. technology giant Microsoft has teamed up with a Chinese military university to develop artificial intelligence systems that could potentially enhance government surveillance and censorship capabilities. ., but...
What is quantum machine learning?
Artificial intelligence refers, among other things, to machines’ capacity to demonstrate some degree of what humans consider “intelligence”. This process is being driven by the...
What robots and AI mean for higher education
The number of robots around the world is increasing rapidly. And it’s said that automation will threatening more than 800m jobs worldwide by 2030. In...
Want to be innovative? Learn from machines
Technology still cannot simulate human intelligence to solve complex problems, in a variable environment and with partial information. But it is getting closer. An...
Talking to AI voice assistants might just change how we interact
When you’re lost, Siri can be your best friend. But if she can’t retrieve the right address from your contacts, she can drive you...
Advanced artificial intelligence: The time to act is now
Artificial intelligence can play chess, drive a car and diagnose medical issues. Examples include Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo, Tesla’s self-driving vehicles, and IBM’s Watson.
This type of artificial intelligence...
Can we trust artificial intelligence?
Artificial neurons for deeply intelligent machines – this is the new artificial intelligence (AI) revolution, led by Geoffrey Hinton and his team since 2012. That year,...
