US regulator approves first-ever fully autonomous commercial drone flights
The Federal Aviation Administration has approved the first-ever fully-automated commercial drone fli...
Suck at gifting? This GPT-3-powered bot will save your ass this holiday season
The vast number of festive socks you got over the past several years’ holidays bears testament to th...
Sony’s new AI-powered TVs ‘mimic the human brain’
Sony has unveiled a new lineup of Bravia TVs that “mimic the human brain” to replicate how we see an...
Codifying humanity: Why robots should fear death as much as we do
Welcome to “Codifying Humanity.” A new Neural series that analyzes the machine learning world’s atte...
To achieve AGI, we need new perspectives on intelligence
This article is part of “ the philosophy of artificial intelligence ,” a series of posts that explor...
New ML-based console cheat puts the AI in ‘aim assist’
Aim bots are nothing new in the world of competitive online gaming. But the possible existence of a virtu...
Microsoft just built ‘one of the top five most powerful’ supercomputers on the planet
Microsoft has announced a new supercomputer built by the company in partnership with and for OpenAI to...
This noggin-reading gadget plays songs based on your brain waves
We have seen apps and features that let you play songs based on your mood. But often, mood-based son...
Oh great, now scientists are teaching AI how to evade pursuit
Did you know Neural is taking the stage this fall ? Together with an amazing line-up of experts, we will...
Microsoft is releasing a preview of its Azure Quantum computing platform
Microsoft today announced that it’s making Azure Quantum , its platform for quantum computing for de...
Inside China’s plan to lead the world in AI
China announced in 2017 its ambition to become the world leader in artificial intelligence (AI) by 2030...
Qualcomm’s betting on AI to take on Apple and Google’s chips
Apple has been in a league of its own when it comes to developing processors for phones and embedding...
Why NASA is going full Michael Bay and attacking an asteroid
In a move clearly inspired by the hyperrealistic movie Armageddon , NASA has decided to attack an asteroi...
World’s fastest computer gives birth to tsunami-predicting AI
Scientists have used the world’s fastest supercomputer to develop an AI tool that predicts tsunami f...
Want to develop ethical AI? Then we need more African voices
Artificial intelligence ( AI ) was once the stuff of science fiction. But it’s becoming widespread....
Instagram’s algorithm pushes users towards COVID-19 misinformation, study finds
Instagram‘s algorithm is recommending COVID-19 and anti-vaccination misinformation to potentially mi...
Here’s why we should never trust AI to identify our emotions
Imagine you are in a job interview. As you answer the recruiter’s questions, an artificial intellige...
Why Google is in deep trouble for tracking your ‘dark patterns’
Google’s surveillance-based business model has attracted another prominent opponent.After surviving...
Here’s how OpenAI’s magical DALL-E image generator works
It seems like every few months, someone publishes a machine learning paper or demo that makes my jaw...
Scientists figured out how to stop time using quantum algorithms
Everyone’s always talking about traveling through time, but if you ask me the ultimate temporal vaca...