Moravec‘s Paradox

Universities across the world are conducting major research on artificial intelligence (AI), as are organizations such as the Allen Institute, and tech companies including Google and Facebook. A likely result is that we will soon have AI approximately as cogn…

When machines become as smart as the people who design them, where does responsibility fall when said machines make a mistake? We're already beginning to see examples of this throughout society, from suspect facial recognition technology to suspect sentencing…

Yaara Nusboim’s “Alma” Therapy Toys Israeli designer Yaara Nusboim created these wooden therapy toys in collaboration with child psychologists for kids to work through various struggles (including trauma) during play therapy. This kind of treatment was devel…

CAMBRIDGE, England (AP) The chamber hushed as the debate got underway at the Cambridge Union and the teams launched into their carefully crafted opening statements. The topic - whether artificial intelligence would do more harm than good - was something each…

Artificial intelligence has given us algorithms capable of recognizing faces, diagnosing disease, and of course, crushing computer games. But even the smartest algorithms can sometimes behave in unexpected and unwanted ways, for example picking up gender bias…

We're releasing Safety Gym, a suite of environments and tools for measuring progress towards reinforcement learning agents that respect safety constraints while training. We also provide a standardized method of comparing algorithms and how well they avoid co…

Could the same computer algorithms that teach autonomous cars to drive safely help identify nearby asteroids or discover life in the universe? NASA scientists are trying to figure that out by partnering with pioneers in artificial intelligence (AI) - companie…

Turns out robots can shade humans, and when they do, it makes us sad and unproductive. So say researchers from Carnegie Mellon University who have released the results of a student-led study from its Robotics Institute.  The whole thing worked like this: Ea…

If you’re a parent, you may have put Disney and Pixar films on constant repeat on your TV to entertain your little ones. One of the movies that they almost certainly request all the time is Wall-E. He’s cute and charming, and chances are your kids have asked …

If it looks even vaguely technological and comes with a multi-billion-dollar valuation, it seems bound to attract the attention of Masayoshi Son, the SoftBank owner and Japanese billionaire whose genial appearance is at odds with his control freakery and incr…