Articles about A.I.

WeChat parent Tencent is opening an A.I. lab in Seattle led by former Microsoft researcher

Tencent, the Chinese tech titan behind WeChat and a wide range of other services, plans to double down on artificial intelligence… Read More

Amazon poised to dominate CES, thanks to Alexa and Dash integrations

Amazon doesn’t even have its own CES booth, but the Seattle-based tech giant promises to be one of the biggest stories at the… Read More

In HBO’s wanton ‘Westworld,’ artificial realities raise questions about our own

“These violent desires have violent ends,” says Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood), echoing the prophecy her father shared with her and Shakespeare… Read More

Bayesian boost for A.I.: Researchers find a quicker way to teach a computer

Researchers say they’ve developed an algorithm that can teach a new concept to a computer using just one example, rather… Read More

‘Hyper lanes’ for driverless cars? Microsoft Research’s Eric Horvitz on the future of A.I.

“No human drivers wanted”: That just might be the road sign for the high-speed highway transit lanes of the future,… Read More

Forget self-driving cars, Toyota investing $50M in A.I. to develop ‘intelligent’ vehicles

Today, Toyota announced a $50 million, five-year collaboration with Stanford and MIT to develop “intelligent” cars. As the New York Times… Read More

‘Ex Machina’ trailer is creepy, sexy, scary look at A.I.

The new sci-fi thriller Ex Machina from British writer/director Alex Garland (28 Days Later) taps into everything intriguing about our modern-day… Read More