Schmidt shocked at China's AI power
We need to call in our Asian friends to help out
China's capabilities in artificial intelligence are "much closer than I thought" to catching up to the US, former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt told Nikkei Asia.
New York Times wades into Watson
Apparently, it is not Applish enough
The New York Times, which long ago sacrificed its technology journalistic credibility to hawk Apple products, has waded into the IBM supercomputer Watson.
Canon insists workers smile
An unhappy worker is an unemployed worker
A new AI device from Canon refuses to admit workers into a building unless they are smiling.
The Vole nose
Microsoft researcher Kate Crawford has told the Guardian that AI as we know it is neither artificial or intelligent.
If only there was good AI software to do the job
The routing algorithm designed for its Flex app by Amazon’s research scientists often makes Amazon delivery drivers cross two- or three-lane highways.