Autonomous weapons experts sounded the alarm last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, cautioning that unless governments act to limit these...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | January 27, 2016
Tom was discussing the film star Tang Wei with a chatbot named XiaoIce, and the bot was excited: "A goddess! She stole my heart … and then went off and married!"...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 26, 2016
For many of us, the concept of artificial intelligence conjures up visions of a machine-dominated world, where humans are servants to the devices they created.Wired From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2016
Philosophers have been gnawing on the infamous Trolley Problem for decades, and it’s always been a purely intellectual exercise with no "right" answer.The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | December 30, 2015
Elon Musk and Sam Altman worry that artificial intelligence will take over the world. So, the two entrepreneurs are creating a billion-dollar not-for-profit company...Wired From ACM Opinion | December 15, 2015
Welcome to the era of AI-human hybrid intelligence, where people and artificial intelligence systems work together seamlessly.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | December 14, 2015
One of the challenges in describing the potential of self-driving cars is that they promise to do so much.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | December 11, 2015
On April 1, 2009, Google unveiled Gmail Autopilot, a plug-in that promised to read and generate contextually relevant replies to the messages piling up in users'...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | December 11, 2015
If you wanted relief from stories about tyre factories and steel plants closing, you could try relaxing with a new 300-page report from Bank of America Merrill which...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | November 11, 2015
Google's move to give away its latest machine-learning software, key to its speech- and photo-recognition programs, isn’t as crazy as it may appear.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | November 10, 2015
"I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords." So goes the joke every time artificial intelligence threatens to supersede humans in another job.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | November 4, 2015
Pedro Domingos's new book is a compelling but rather unquestioning insider view of the search for the ultimate in machine learning.New Scientist From ACM Opinion | November 3, 2015
In the world of artificial intelligence, one of the year's biggest coming-out parties is the Neural Information Processing Systems conference.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2015
The two mobile robots Spirit and Opportunity were launched from Earth in 2003 and arrived on opposite sides of Mars in 2004. A suite of cameras, instruments, and...Slate From ACM Opinion | October 23, 2015
What if we told you that fighting ISIS could be done cheaply, relatively easily, in a manner that would not escalate or put any in harm’s way?Slate From ACM Opinion | October 21, 2015
Nicole Perlman, screenwriter, Guardians of the Galaxy: As someone who’s both accident-prone and constantly putting her foot in her mouth, my first thought is the...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | October 13, 2015
In 1970, Life magazine published an article about a Stanford University research project that had resulted in the construction of what it called the first-ever...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | October 2, 2015