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Tech Mogul Anthony Lewandowski’s religious group, Way of the Future, wants to create an AI-based god “for the betterment of society”. Many people believe the singularity is eminent, the hypothesis that ...

They are a dream of researchers but perhaps a nightmare for highly skilled computer programmers: artificially intelligent machines that can build other artificially intelligent machines.  With recent speeches in both Silicon ...

Our fear is that a GM-style public backlash to AI might lead to a clampdown on its use in the public sector – leaving private companies to use it unchecked Fresh ...

A handful of companies are luring away top researchers, but academics say they are killing the geese that lay the golden eggs It was the case of the missing PhD student.  As ...

We live in the age of big data, but most of that data is “sparse.” Imagine, for instance, a massive table that mapped all of Amazon’s customers against all of ...

Should you let an AI algorithm make a $100 mln call on your behalf? That’s a concept that several hedge funds have been tackling for a few years. As artificial intelligence continues ...

On a second-quarter earnings call in late April, the head of US software maker Seagate Technology was asked about his company’s acquisition strategy. The response was a masterclass in gobbledegook. “I ...

If you’re looking for an exciting career in an emerging tech field, look no further than a job in AI engineering. Even though this is one of the fastest-growing jobs ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Silicon Valley’s start-ups have always had a recruiting advantage over the industry’s giants: Take a chance on us and we’ll give you an ownership stake that could ...

In a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence, AlphaGo Zero took just three days to master the ancient Chinese board game of Go ... with no human help Google’s artificial intelligence group, DeepMind, ...