What idioms teach us about ai and its evolution

JOANNE JANG SEES HER WORK AS “empowering users to fulfill their goals” right up to the point of not causing harm or infringing on others’ freedoms. “AI-lab employees should not be the arbiters of what

UNDER A CRYSTAL CHANDELIER IN A HIGH-ceilinged anteroom in Paris, the moderator of Intelligence Rising is reprimanding his players. These 12 former government officials, academics, and artificial inte

ALTHOUGH CAR DESIGN IS A CREATIVE process, it’s also one that entails applied knowledge. Which is what AI is good at. By the way, in talking about design, I don’t mean the very creative process of vis

An AI driven robot named Erbai, developed by a Chinese robotics company in Hangzhou, behaved unexpectedly when allowed to interact with other robots in a Shanghai robotics showroom. Although the inter

How can you get your people – employees, family, relatives – used to the idea that Google might not be available one day? Not just in a regional crash, but offline for days, weeks, months due to a del

STUART RUSSELL RECEIVES FOUR OR five emails a day from people who seem to be in the grips of psychosis, convinced their AI chatbot of choice is suddenly conscious. “It’s appointing them as its emissar