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Machine learning is not new. We have witnessed it since the 1990s, when Amazon introduced a new “recommended for you” section for its users to display more personalized results. When we search for ...

Superintelligence, roughly defined as an AI algorithm that can solve all problems better than people, will be a watershed for humanity and tech. Even the best human experts have trouble making ...

It’s excusable if you didn’t notice it when a scientist named Daniel J. Buehrer, a retired professor from the National Chung Cheng University in Taiwan, published a white paper earlier this month ...

Often they are convinced that this is the master algorithm, and that they will solve the whole learning problem with it. I myself don’t think any of those things by themselves are the master ...

For all the talk of machines becoming intelligent, getting a sophisticated robot to do anything complex, like grabbing a heavy object and moving it from one place to another, still requires many hours ...

Buzzfeed, Facebook, Cloudflare, Baidu, and Section 32 executives discuss possible ways to combat the spread of fake news online. They speak at the WSJ D.Live conference in Laguna Beach, Calif.