Chris Dixon opened a truly wonderful piece in the Atlantic entitled How Aristotle Created the Computer like this: Dixon goes on to describe the creation of Boolean logic (which has only two variables: TRUE and FALSE, represented as 1 and 0 respectively), and
2022-06-22
“Robot’s Delight – A Lyrical Exposition on Learning by Imitation from Human-Human Interaction” is a video submission that won Best Video at the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2017). The team also provides an
2022-06-19
I’ve done a lot of writing and research recently about the bright future of AI: that it’ll be able to analyze human emotions, understand social nuances, conduct medical treatments and diagnoses that overshadow the best human physicians, and in general
2022-06-19
Elon Musk and Sam Altman are adamant that our brains must become one with artificial intelligence if we don’t want it to subjugate us. As robots learn faster than ever, do humans need new ways to keep up? That's certainly what Elon Musk seems to think. In
2022-06-19
Who is winning the race for jobs between robots and humans? Last year, two leading economists described a future in which humans come out ahead. But now they’ve declared a different winner: the robots. The industry most affected by automation is
2022-06-16
Hedge funds have been trying to teach computers to think like traders for years. Now, after many false dawns, an artificial intelligence technology called deep learningthat loosely mimics the neurons in our brains is holding out promise for firms. WorldQuant
2022-06-15
The group says it has a more practical way to get software to learn tasks, such as steering robots, that require multiple actions. In 2013 a British artificial-intelligence startup called DeepMind surprised computer scientists by showing off software that
2022-06-13
The height of individual vs. collective irrationality has to be automobile traffic. We build roadways around the assumption that we as individual human actors will behave in ways that appear to reward those behaviors at the level of individuals but wind
2022-06-12
Ilya Sutskever, director of OpenAI, an independent research group, will describe what might be the next big breakthrough in artificial intelligence today at EmTech Digital, a conference organized by MIT Technology Reviewin San Francisco. Sutskever will
2022-06-10
