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
For decades, technology has relentlessly made phones, laptops, apps and entire industries cheaper and better—while health care has stubbornly loitered in an alternate universe where tech makes everything more expensive and more complex. Now startups are
2018-12-26
When AlphaGo topped the grandmaster Lee Sedol last year in Seoul, South Korea, becoming the first machine to beat a professional at the ancient game of Go, it grabbed the attention of the entire country—and beyond. This surprisingly powerful machine, built
2018-12-26
