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Back to news homeMany Developed Countries View Online Misinformation as ‘Major Threat’
Nearly three-quarters of people across 19 countries believe that the spread of false information online is a “major threat,” according to a survey released on Wednesday by the Pew Research […]
Finally, an underwater messaging app
Don’t you hate it when, after going just five or 10 meters underwater, you lose signal completely? Now this vexing limitation of modern technology is being addressed by researchers at […]
One Man’s Dream of Fusing A.I. With Common Sense
David Ferrucci, who led the team that built IBM’s famed Watson computer, was elated when it beat the best-ever human “Jeopardy!” players in 2011, in a televised triumph for artificial […]
Perceptron: Face-tracking ‘earables,’ analog AI chips, and accelerating particle accelerators
Kyle Wiggers Contributor Kyle Wiggers is a senior reporter at TechCrunch with a special interest in artificial intelligence. His writing has appeared in VentureBeat and Digital Trends, as well as […]
We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting
We’ve seen a few efforts to close the gap — Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence recently held a three-day “A.I. boot camp” for congressional staff members, for example — […]
How Software Is Stifling Competition and Slowing Innovation
More than a decade ago, Marc Andreessen, the internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist, famously declared, “Software is eating the world.”The winners, Mr. Andreessen wrote in The Wall Street Journal, would […]
Perceptron: AI that solves math problems, translates 200 languages, and draws kangaroos
Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This […]
Google Sidelines Engineer Who Claims Its A.I. Is Sentient
SAN FRANCISCO — Google placed an engineer on paid leave recently after dismissing his claim that its artificial intelligence is sentient, surfacing yet another fracas about the company’s most advanced […]
Perceptron: Robots that feel pain and AI that predicts soccer players’ movements
Research in the field of machine learning and AI, now a key technology in practically every industry and company, is far too voluminous for anyone to read it all. This […]