Google says its fleet of automated vehicles, currently undergoing testing, have had 13 near-misses in which a driver had to intervene to prevent a collision.The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | January 13, 2016
Machine learning and computer vision are being combined to provide commentary on professional sporting events as they occur.The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | December 16, 2015
To get his Ph.D., MIT grad student Andy Barry packed up a car with a drone and a catapult to launch it. Then he headed west.The Washington Post From ACM News | November 5, 2015
Researchers and driving safety experts warn the new autopilot option installed in most Tesla vehicles could cause unsafe conditions. The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | October 19, 2015
Boeing and Carnegie Mellon University have launched an Aerospace Data Analytics Lab to mine insights from the vast body of data generated by the aerospace industry...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2015
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen is funding a pair of parallel projects to understand the nature of intelligence. The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | October 2, 2015
A recent paper concluded humans would not stand a chance against super-intelligent robots following a hypothetical mass extinction event. The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | September 9, 2015
German researchers have outlined a method of using deep learning to turn regular photographs into images in the style of great painters. The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | September 3, 2015
Later this year a Michigan pedestrian named Sebastian will spend his days throwing himself in the path of speeding cars.The Washington Post From ACM News | July 20, 2015
Few revolutions can be said to have lasted for half a century, or to have wrought disruptive change at a predictable pace.The Washington Post From ACM News | April 16, 2015
Most of us haven't had a cow wander on to a road in front of us while we're driving. Still, it's the type of situation Google is wisely anticipating.The Washington Post From ACM News | April 7, 2015
Google chairman Eric Schmidt suggested fear over artificial intelligence (AI) is overblown during a keynote address at the South by Southwest Conference with author...The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | March 18, 2015
Arguably the most alarming part of concerns over artificial intelligence's potential to end human civilization is the voices that are speaking out.The Washington Post From ACM News | March 17, 2015
Freeman Dyson, 91, the famed physicist, author and oracle of human destiny, is holding forth after tea-time one February afternoon in the common room of the Institute...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | February 23, 2015
Remember Watson, the computer that won "Jeopardy!" in 2011 and made us all worry about the impending obsolescence of the human race?The Washington Post From ACM News | February 11, 2015
IBM researcher David Buchanan says worries about artificial intelligence surpassing humans in more existential ways are overblown. The Washington Post From ACM TechNews | February 9, 2015
In the last three months of 2014, the Associated Press published 3,000 articles on the earning reports of U.S. companies. Previously it could publish only 300.The Washington Post From ACM News | February 2, 2015