If you instruct Google Assistant to “talk like a Legend,” it will speak in a simulacrum…
Author: Tom Simonite
Google’s AI Experts Try to Automate Themselves
Google's AutoML software uses machine learning to generate better machine learning. It competed last week against…
The Tricky Ethics of Google’s Cloud Ambitions
Google trails Amazon and Microsoft in selling cloud services to other companies, but its efforts to…
The Godfathers of the AI Boom Win the Turing Award
Yoshua Bengio, Geoff Hinton, and Yann LeCun pioneered work in artificial neural networks, paving the way…
Fei-Fei Li Wants AI to Care More About Humans
Stanford professor and former Google employee Fei-Fei Li is the force behind the new Institute for…
The People Trying to Make Internet Recommendations Less Toxic
Recommendation algorithms on sites like Facebook and YouTube can send users down rabbit holes, spread falsehoods,…
China Is Catching Up to the US in AI Research–Fast
Chinese researchers publish more papers about artificial intelligence than their US counterparts. A new study finds…
To Compete With Google, OpenAI Seeks Investors–and Profits
OpenAI, the independent research lab cofounded by Elon Musk, created a for-profit arm to attract more…
Why Chinese Companies Plug a US Test for ****** Recognition
A US government agency tests the accuracy of ****** recognition programs. The top spots are routinely…
US Lawyers Don’t Buy Huawei’s Argument on Chinese Hacking
Huawei says Chinese law prohibits the government from ordering it to install backdoors for spying. US…