Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at...
In a world first, a machine plays chess by evaluating the board rather than using brute force to work out every possible move.It’s been almost 20 years since IBM’s Deep Blue supercomputer beat the...
View ArticleFacebook’s Artificial-Intelligence Software Gets a Dash More Common Sense
Software that knows if a stack of virtual blocks will fall could show the way to machines that learn the basics of physical reality.Will this block of virtual blocks fall over? Facebook has trained up...
View ArticleGoogle Tries to Make Machine Learning a Little More Human
As Google puts machine-learning software into more products, it must train it to behave more as humans expect.Google CEO Sundar Pichai told investors last month that advances in machine-learning...
View ArticleRobot Toddler Learns to Stand by "Imagining" How to Do It
Instead of being programmed, a robot uses brain-inspired algorithms to “imagine” doing tasks before trying them in the real world.Like many toddlers, Darwin sometimes looks a bit unsteady on its feet....
View ArticleAI Advances Make It Possible to Search, Shop with Images
Deep learning software has dramatically improved image recognition tools. Pinterest and Shoes.com are testing it out on shoppers.The Web has changed a lot in the past 20 years, but text search boxes...
View ArticleWhat Will It Take to Build a Virtuous AI?
A billion-dollar nonprofit backed by Silicon Valley heavyweights aims to make machines more moral. How it will do so isn’t yet clear.A billion dollars is quite a lot of money to invest—even if your...
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