Moravec‘s Paradox

Cops are already using Boston Dynamics' creepy Spot robot, and theyre not being very transparent about what the four-legged mechanical hellhound is getting up to while it's in their care. According to a report by Boston news station WBUR, documents obtained…

By Dr. Marc Teerlink, Global Vice President, SAP | Intelligent Enterprise SolutionsIn the DC, Maryland and Virginia area, a single mother with two children has an average six dollars left for their daily dinner. Ironically, buying processed food will cost her…

AI Needs to Breathe on Blockchain How Artificial Intelligence Started Like most innovations and technological breakthroughs, we need to first define the parameters of artificial intelligence (AI) before we reach its point of inception. A broad definition th…

An Army-led research team developed new algorithms and filled in knowledge gaps about how robots contribute to teams and what robots know about their environment and teammates. Dr. Kristin Schaefer-Lay, an engineer with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Deve…

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…