Buried in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (NDAA), recently signed by President Joe Biden, are two of the most consequential pieces of artificial intelligence (A.I.) legisla...
The First Reith Lecture of 2021 took place at the Alan Turing Institute at the British Library in London. In this lecture, Stuart explores the future of AI and asks; how can we get our relationship wi...
JPMorgan, the largest bank in the U.S., said it has become the first lender to arrive in the metaverse, having opened a lounge in Decentraland, a virtual world based on blockchain technology. As well ...
There isn’t an industry in the world that is immune to the influence of artificial intelligence (AI). From virtual reality (VR) gaming systems to AI robots in industrial manufacturing, the development...
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HCAI) is a concept that seems to put human usage and access of AI technology at the forefront. To me, it seems in opposition to the “data driven” vision of some...
As a former professor in artificial intelligence, one of my favorite–and surely one of the oldest–technological myths is found in the masterpiece, the Iliad. In Homer’s poem narrating the Trojan War, ...
The mind-blowing technology at the Olympics is always impressive, but it’s proving to have more than just the cool factor in Beijing. These innovations are cutting down on human contact to help keep C...
On TikTok, you might have seen Tom Cruise playing acoustic guitar in a plain white t-shirt and a green baseball cap. You might have seen Tom Cruise check himself out shirtless in a bathroom mirror. Or...
In a new report, analysts at management consulting firm McKinsey have warned that insurance industry profits are “practically at a standstill” due to longstanding economic challenges. Examining the in...
Entering the metaverse has become something that every company does whether or not doing so actually makes sense. It’s like when one person in high school starts flipping his or her collar up an...
Amidst all the hype about the metaverse, observers are attempting to describe what it means for the banking industry. EuroMoney wrote: “Incumbent banks are already being disrupted by blockchain techno...
We’ll log into virtual spaces so realistic it will seem as if we’re physically in the same room, tech visionaries say. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY: Sabato Visconti for The Wall Street Journal In...
Conversation AI applications have evolved to the point where they could easily pass the Turing Test and convince a human they are speaking with another human. Although AI has continually evolved, ethi...
Microsoft researchers have built an AI model that can identify when medical treatments meant to help patients actually ended up harming them. The model, Dead-end Discovery, uses the reinforcement lear...
Last week’s announcement of AlphaCode, DeepMind’s source code–generating deep learning system, created a lot of excitement—some of it unwarranted—surrounding advances in artificial intelligence. As I’...