Silicon Valley takes a (careful) step toward autonomous flying
Autonomous flight can drive new kinds of passenger services or even change the economics of today’s airlines. But self-flying aircraft will take a while, for...
Google promises its AI will not be used for weapons
But the company said it will continue to work with governments and the military.
Why AI and cryptocurrency are making a type of computer chip scarce
With people and companies involved in the two surging tech niches buying up graphics processing units, the chips have been in short supply over the...
The fight for talent: Facebook hires UW professor for new AI lab in Seattle
Facebook is opening new AI labs in Seattle and Pittsburgh, after hiring three professors from the University of Washington and Carnegie Mellon University. Its efforts...
How an AI ‘cat-and-mouse game’ generates believable fake photos
Researchers are working on technology that could eventually accelerate the creation of games and movies by generating realistic imagery in moments rather than the hours...
What you need to do because of flaws in computer chips
Hackers can exploit two major flaws, called Meltdown and Spectre, in microprocessors running virtually all machines on Earth. Here’s what you need to do now.
The godfather of AI is working on a new way for machines to see
Geoffrey Hinton, a professor at the University of Toronto, developed a system in 2012 that could analyze thousands of photos and teach itself to identify...
Yale professors race Google and IBM to the first quantum computer
Three giants of the tech world — Google, IBM and Intel — are using a method pioneered by Yale University professor Robert Schoelkopf to build...
AI startup developing algorithms that let robots learn tasks on their own VIEW
The founders of Embodied Intelligence are intent on bringing a new level of robotic automation to the world’s factories, warehouses and perhaps even homes.