This AI Just Mapped Every Solar Panel in the United States
From rooftop configurations to utility-scale facilities, solar panels are springing up like popcorn across the United…
Google’s AI Bots Invent Ridiculous New Legs to Scamper Through Obstacle Courses
Using a technique called reinforcement learning, a researcher at Google Brain has shown that virtual robots can…
New MIT Robot Can Delicately Handle Objects It’s Never Seen Before
Robots in factories are really good at picking up objects they’ve been pre-programmed to handle, but it’s a different…
The World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Is an Absolute Beast
Behold Summit, a new supercomputer capable of making 200 million billion calculations per second. It marks the first…
This Is the Longest Straight Path You Could Travel on Water Without Hitting Land
Back in 2012, a Reddit user posted a map claiming to show the longest straight line that could be traversed across the…
AI Could Dramatically Increase Risk of Nuclear War by 2040, Says New Report
The common conception of a technologically enabled apocalypse foresees a powerful artificial intelligence that, either…
After Millions of Trials, These Simulated Humans Learned to Do Perfect Backflips and Cartwheels
Using well-established machine learning techniques, researchers from University of California, Berkeley have taught…
Image Manipulation Hack Fools Humans and Machines, Makes Me Think Nothing is Real Anymore
Computer scientists at Google Brain have devised a technique that tricks neural networks into misidentifying images—a…
New Report on Emerging AI Risks Paints a Grim Future
A new report authored by over two-dozen experts on the implications of emerging technologies is sounding the alarm…
The One Way Your Laptop Is Actually Slower Than a 30-Year-Old Apple IIe
Have you ever had that nagging sensation that your computer was slower than it used to be? Or that your brand new…
The Coolest Scientific Discoveries of 2017
Science may be just a tool to help us understand our Universe. But we can all agree that one of its major perks is that…
New AI System Makes CAPTCHAs Even More Vulnerable to Hacks
Computer scientists have developed an artificially intelligent system that’s an improvement over existing techniques…
Stunning AI Breakthrough Takes Us One Step Closer to the Singularity
Remember AlphaGo, the first artificial intelligence to defeat a grandmaster at Go? Well, the program just got a major…
Finally, The First Beer Named By Neural Network Is Here
Neural networks have important purposes that people are excited about. But that’s not really what I’m interested in,…
Ivanka Trump Wants You to Know That Technology Is Important for the Future
Did you know that Ivanka Trump is an expert on education policy? Well, the president’s daughter wants you to know that…
Why Computers Are Having Such a Hard Time With This Deceptively Simple Chess Puzzle
A popular chess problem known as the Queen’s Puzzle has captivated mathematicians and computer scientists for years,…
IBM Is Clueless About AI Risks
Earlier this week, David Kenny, IBM Senior Vice President for Watson and Cloud, told the US Congress that Americans…
Would You Feel Safer If Your Self-Driving Car Could Explain Itself?
With each passing breakthrough in artificial intelligence, we’re asking our machines to make increasingly complex and…
When Will Robots Deserve Human Rights?
Films and TV shows like Blade Runner, Humans, and Westworld, where highly advanced robots have no rights, trouble our…
The First AI-Generated Paint Names Include 'Homestar Brown' and 'Stanky Bean'
Humans aren’t nearly as creative as we think. Craft brewers, for example, have run out of fun names and are sending…