You enter your password incorrectly too many times and get locked out of your account; your colleague sets up access to her work email on a new device; someone in your company clicks on an emailed “Google Doc” that is actually a phishing link —
2018-12-29
WUZHEN, CHINA — Je Kie, the number one Go player in the world, spent much of the game playing with the hair on his head. Time and again, he pinched the short strands between his thumb and index fingers, twisting the hair around one and then the other. His
2018-12-29
Artificial intelligence – or AI – is a true part of our world, as well as a substantial hub of interest for science and business. Companies are ferociously investing in, engaging in and including artificial intelligence in their operations. It is a
2018-12-29
HONG KONG — It’s all over for humanity — at least in the game of Go. For the second game in a row, a Google computer program called AlphaGo beat the world’s best player of what many consider the world’s most sophisticated board game. AlphaGo is
2018-12-28
Right now, the market for GPUs for use in machine learning is essentially a market of one: Nvidia. AMD, the only other major discrete GPU vendor of consequence, holds around 30 percent of the market for total GPU sales compared to Nvidia’s 70 percent. For
2018-12-28
If statistics were a human being, it would have been in deep therapy all of its 350-year life. The sessions might go like this: Therapist: "I'm sure it's not everyone..." Statistics: "And they misunderstand me." Therapist: "Sorry, I didn't quite get what
2018-12-28
When researchers inside Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence lab first built AlphaGo—the machine that plays the ancient game of Go better than any human—they needed human help. The machine learned to play this exceedingly complex game by analyzing
2018-12-27
The story starts out like a bad joke: Obama, Clinton and Trump walk into a bar, where they applauded a new startup based in Montreal, Canada called Lyrebird. If the scenario seems too bizarre to be real, you’re right—it’s not. The entire recording was
2018-12-27
The other day, I was airing some grievances to a friend. The whining topic du jour: artificial intelligence, or AI. “Every time I hear about it, I think, ‘Sure, that’s cool,’” I said. “But sometimes I wish it would slow down -- there’s so much
2018-12-27
