The growing prominence of health tech enlisting artificial intelligence has led to a lot of practical applications for automating a wide variety of administrative tasks, analyzing medical images for ...

I recently shared my top predictions for the retail industry in 2019, one of which is that algorithms will take control. Retail has long been driven by merchants who followed their guts to make ...

Think of your local coffee shop: Every morning, the same baristas greet you; they know your order without you having to say it; they know your name, and you know theirs. In a small setting, this kind ...

The truth is that most AI systems today are amoral. They maximize whatever objective we give them while outsourcing ethics to ...

We’ve seen AI algorithms create mostly-believable pictures of people’s headshots, works of art, news articles, and even pokémon. But now a team of scientists is taking things a step further, with an ...

“We really believed in social experiences. We really believed in protecting privacy. But we were way too idealistic. We did not think enough about the abuse cases,” Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg ...

For the first time an autonomously flying quadrotor has outperformed two human pilots in a drone race. The success is based on a novel algorithm that calculates time-optimal trajectories that fully ...

Researchers have developed a new algorithm that combines two processes for personalizing robotic prosthetic devices to both optimize the movement of the prosthetic limb and - for the first time - also ...

Increasingly – and often by stealth as they work inside your innocent-looking search engine – algorithms have entered not just our computers and working lives. They also govern more and more ...