This video explains how the Soviet Union once planned to build a nationwide computer network to help manage its economy. Early ideas from Anatoly Kitov later developed into the larger OGAS project led ...

Given the risk that artificial intelligence may spiral out of control, more than 1,300 employees at A.I. companies have called for government intervention. President Trump announced on Saturday that ...

Artificial-intelligence systems can generate hypotheses, design experiments and analyse data — but humans still need to decide what makes sense.

U.S. President Donald Trump has launched a public poll seeking a new term for “Artificial Intelligence,” arguing that the ...

After discovering machine learning at Columbia, alumnus Roberto Valdez found an unexpected new direction for his career. Today, as a machine learning engineer at Google, he continues to draw on ...

U.S. states are enacting AI mental health laws. A federal version is in the offing. One approach would be to do a "federal ...

When you ask your child who has just returned from school, "What did you do in Science and Social Studies today?" and the only answer you get is "I forgot"—when days like that continue, it's natural ...

It’s the only known individual of the species living in captivity. Credit…Fernando Faciole/National Geographic For years, ...

The news that Anthropic (a private company) has established a "wet lab" in the San Francisco Bay Area to conduct biological experiments caught my attention.Anthropic is a US AI company that develops ...

Japanese participants rated bowing faces as more attractive, while U.S. participants showed much smaller changes across racial appearances.

Over a decade ago school systems across the U.S. began putting screens center stage in classrooms to improve kids’ education. The plan has backfired.

Google’s new Android security libraries let apps and administrators inspect patch status by component instead of relying on a single security patch date.