The rise of robots has long been a topic for sci-fi best sellers and video games and, as of this week, a threat officially taken seriously by central bankers.
The New York Times From ACM News | July 6, 2017
Many automotive technologists are skeptical that autonomous cars will be able to trust humans in emergency situations.
The New York Times From ACM TechNews | June 9, 2017
Sören Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany, and seemed set to go to Europe or the United States, where artificial intelligence...The New York Times From ACM Careers | May 31, 2017
Giant tech companies are fighting over the technology in court. Start-ups around the world are racing to develop new versions of it. And engineers say it is essential...The New York Times From ACM News | May 26, 2017
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo program beat a Chinese world champion in the first of three Go games held this week.
The New York Times From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2017
We don't know how quickly machines will displace people's jobs, or how many they'll take, but we know it's happening—not just to factory workers but also to ...The New York Times From ACM Careers | May 4, 2017
When Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. visited Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute last month, he was asked a startling question, one with overtones of science fiction...The New York Times From ACM News | May 3, 2017
What if part of your job became teaching a computer everything you know about doing someone's job—perhaps your own?
The New York Times From ACM Careers | May 1, 2017
In early January, I went to see Mark Zuckerberg at MPK20, a concrete-and-steel building on the campus of Facebook's headquarters, which sits across a desolate highway...The New York Times Magazine From ACM News | April 25, 2017
New tools must be developed to track and measure the impact of artificial intelligence and automation on the U.S. job market, according to a report from an expert...The New York Times From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2017
Long before Google started working on cars that drive themselves and Amazon was creating home appliances that talk, a handful of researchers in Canada—backed by...The New York Times From ACM Careers | April 10, 2017
Robert O. Work, the veteran defense official retained as deputy secretary by President Trump, calls them his "A.I. dudes."
The New York Times From ACM News | February 6, 2017
Underneath the nostalgia and hope in President Obama's farewell address Tuesday night was a darker theme: the struggle to help the people on the losing end of technological...The New York Times From ACM News | January 13, 2017
Wealth and influence in the technology business have always been about gaining the upper hand in software or the machines that software ran on.
The New York Times From ACM News | January 9, 2017
Jeff Bezos of Amazon, along with a couple of his rivals, may eventually control much of the $1 trillion global market for business computers and software.
The New York Times From ACM News | December 27, 2016
The first job that Sherry Johnson, 56, lost to automation was at the local newspaper in Marietta, Ga., where she fed paper into the printing machines and laid out...The New York Times From ACM News | December 22, 2016
Late one Friday night in early November, Jun Rekimoto, a distinguished professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Tokyo, was online preparing...The New York Times From ACM News | December 20, 2016