Tag: ai research
New Algorithm Teaches Robots How to Behave in Social Situations
To counter the fear that artificial intelligence (AI) could someday become a threat to humanity, a team of scientists last monthrevealed a new algorithm that...
Facebook’s FAIR to donate servers to European academic researchers
The Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) lab today announced a new partnership program that will benefit academic researchers in Europe. It’s not just that...
Using Stories to Teach Human Values to Artificial Agents
The rapid pace of artificial intelligence (AI) has raised fears about whether robots could act unethically or soon choose to harm humans. Some are...
A new-generation exoskeleton helps the paralyzed to walk
Until recently, being paralyzed from the waist down meant using a wheelchair to get around. And although daily life is more accessible to wheelchair...
VC funding for AI startups dipped 21 percent in 2015
It seems as though artificial intelligence is a space that is finally starting to come into its own, with companies like Apple, Google and...
New $12m project aims to ‘reverse-engineer’ the brain
Teaching computers to learn the way we do is widely considered an important step toward better artificial intelligence, but it's hard to achieve without...
Will Machines Eliminate Us?
People who worry that we’re on course to invent dangerously intelligent machines are misunderstanding the state of computer science.
Yoshua Bengio leads one of the...
Facebook’s artificially intelligent Go player is getting smarter
Facebook today is demonstrating recent progress in its effort to have a computer program beat a human being at the ancient Chinese board game...
The Neural Network That Remembers
On tap at the brewpub. A nice dark red color with a nice head that left a lot of lace on the glass. Aroma...
Harvard awarded £19m to build brain-inspired artificial intelligence
Harvard University has been awarded $28 million (£19m) to investigate why brains are so much better at learning and retaining information than artificial intelligence. The...