Acclaimed economist Daniel Kahneman in his book Thinking Fast and Slow, proposed that the human brain has two separate systems for decision making – system 1 and system 2. System 1 controls unconsciou...
Our species owes a lot to opposable thumbs. But if evolution had given us extra thumbs, things probably wouldn’t have improved much. One thumb per hand is enough. Not so for neural networks, the leadi...
Though we’re living through a time of extraordinary innovation in GPU-accelerated machine learning, the latest research papers frequently (and prominently) feature algorithms that are decades, in cert...
For decades, China has been a top priority for American companies looking to expand. This is because the country’s middle class is simply enormous, growing from 3.1% to 50.8% of the country’s total po...
Raquel Urtasun, the former chief scientist at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Group, promised an “AI-centric approach” to autonomous vehicles when she founded her own company last year, Waabi. Now, she’s...
Google Analytics est une fonctionnalité qui peut être intégrée par les gestionnaires de sites web tels que des sites de vente en ligne afin d’en mesurer la fréquentation par les internautes. Dans ce c...
Picking up new technology in an increasingly digital world is harder than it looks. More companies may be turning to artificial intelligence, but many have yet to master the transition of integrating ...
Rocatti had lost all feeling and motion in his legs after the motorbike crash. But thanks to electrodes implanted in their spines in experimental surgery in Lausanne, Switzerland, he and two other you...
Remember Skynet, the artificial intelligence that wanted to wipe out humanity in the Terminator movies? Now that is an example of AI gone wrong. Luckily, this will not be the case for us in 2022. AI t...
Legislation introduced last week would require companies to assess the impact of AI and automated systems they use to make decisions affecting people’s employment, finances, housing and more. The Algo...
They are successful and glamorous, in a Bushwick, Brooklyn, sort of way. And on Tuesday, U.S. officials arrested them on allegations they sought to launder billions of dollars worth of crypto stemming...
For the past few decades, anxious parents, educators, and politicians have latched onto the idea that teaching kids to code would be a surefire way to prepare them for “the workforce of tomorrow.” But...
View the high resolution version of this infographic. Buy the poster. The inflation rate in the U.S. has surged, reaching 7% year-over-year in December 2021. This marks the highest level in 40 years. ...
There’s a key question about cryptocurrency on the front page of your tax return this season. You need to answer yes if you sold, exchanged, mined or made purchases with digital currency. If you don’t...
I have spent a lot of my career, both in Silicon Valley and beyond, insisting that all our technologies have histories and even pre-histories, and that far from being neat and tidy, those stories are...