COBOL is one of the oldest programming languages still widely used to power critical applications across multiple industries. A February 2022 survey found that there are 775 to 850 billion lines of CO...
Anna Severin explains how her team used machine learning to try to assess the quality of thousands of reviewers’ reports. Do more-highly cited journals have higher-quality peer review? Reviews are gen...
More than a million people are now using the AI image-maker, and many of them asked for a tool extending the aspect ratio of images. Since it was announced in April, the text-to-image AI tool DALL-E 2...
Solving the customer service industry’s notorious retention issues has been something of a white whale for entrepreneurs. According to data from AI company Cresta, annual turnover rates at conta...
In policy circles, discussions about artificial intelligence invariably pit China against the United States in a race for technological supremacy. If the key resource is data, then China, with its bil...
But we haven’t just been wrong about things we thought would come to pass; humanity also has a long history of incorrectly assuring ourselves that certain now-inescapable realities wouldn’t. The day b...
Jason Allen’s AI-generated work « Théâtre D’opéra Spatial » took first place in the digital category at the Colorado State Fair. A man came in first at the Colorado State Fair’s fine art c...
Arguably the most consequential technological transformation of our lifetimes is coming faster than we think — and we’re not adequately prepared. Why it matters: Artificial intelligence is rapid...
One hundred years ago, a Czech playwright named Karel Capek coined the term « robot ». Right from the get-go, the overly negative ‘murderous-machine’ trope took hold, and we’ve never...
Music has forever been moved by technology — from the invention of the phonograph, to Bob Dylan pivoting from acoustic to electric guitar, to the ubiquity of streaming platforms and, most recently, an...
The talent crunch is not an impediment to AI. Businesses are now looking for new ways to accelerate deployments. Dive Brief: Talent shortages are not an impediment to AI adoption, a Gartner survey of ...
Humanity is a wayward teenager. Our species has its whole life ahead of it, but the decisions we make now will irrevocably shape the course of our adulthood. We could recognize the stakes of this crit...
AI and conventional computers are a match made in hell. The main reason is how hardware chips are currently set up. Based on the traditional Von Neumann architecture, the chip isolates memory storage ...
Boston Dynamics AI Institute Executive Director Marc Raibert joins Emily Chang to discuss their work with Hyundai and their $400 million investment to set up the Institute, and discuss the state of ar...
Anima Anandkumar wants computer scientists to move beyond the matrix, among other challenges. Anima Anandkumar stands in front of the CAST fan array at the California Institute of Technology, which si...