Artificial Intelligence

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In a key vote this morning the European Parliament’s legal affairs committee has backed the two most controversial elements of a digital copyright reform…

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A popular argument for the simulation hypothesis came from University of Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003, when he suggested that members of an advanced…

Pit-Stop TimingFirst of all teams could use AI, more specifically machine learning/deep learning to get better predictions of when best to stop the car to…

Light lets us see the things that surround us, but what if we could also use it to see things hidden around corners? It sounds like science fiction, but that’s…

In the analysis of big data sets, the first step is usually the identification of “features” — data points with particular predictive power or analytic utility.…

The rumors had it right: Sony is rebooting its robot dog, Aibo, announcing a new four-legged companion AI-powered bot incoming with the same brand name but more…

Late last week, Hinton released two research papers that he says prove out an idea he’s been mulling for almost 40 years. “It’s made a lot of intuitive sense to…

Nearly 60 years ago, then-Senate Majority Leader Lyndon B. Johnson seized his colleagues with a stark Cold War warning: Whoever wins the space race, he…

Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing huge sets of training data, have been responsible for the most impressive recent…

Today four MIT faculty were named among the Association for Computing Machinery's 2017 Fellows for making “landmark contributions to computing.” Honorees…

Josh Tenenbaum, a professor of brain and cognitive sciences at MIT, directs research on the development of intelligence at the Center for Brains, Minds, and…

$12 billion is lost globally to phishing scams every year.Re:scam is an email bot, powered by AI, made to reply to scam emails. Re:scam wastes scammers time…

Earlier this year, Microsoft launched Healthcare NExT, a new initiative that aims to bring together artificial intelligence, health research, and the expertise…

Way back in 1992, NASA administrator Daniel Goldin described the organization as "pale, male and stale", a derisive commentary on the lack of race, gender and…

MIT today announced the launch of the MIT Intelligence Quest, an initiative to discover the foundations of human intelligence and drive the development of…

Don't throw away your Stephen King collection just yet. But the Master of the Macabre might want to keep an eye out behind him, because scientists have just…

For decades, materials scientists have taken inspiration from the natural world. They’ll identify a biological material that has some desirable trait — such as…

Artificial intelligence and machine learning are often associated with tech giants like Google and Amazon that have created the most popular machine learning…

Companies like Amazon have big ideas for drones that can deliver packages right to your door. But even putting aside the policy issues, programming drones to…

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If you’re using our AI scheduling assistants Amy + Andrew in your workplace, but your coworkers aren’t, there’s a new way to help everyone schedule faster—sign…

We often hear about the eventual robot uprising, especially when it comes to the advances being made in artificial intelligence. Bright minds like Tesla…