Overview Machine learning offers efficiency at scale, but trust depends on understanding how decisions are madeAs machine ...

Artificial intelligence has turned a corner, and no one is sure how worried we should be. After years of hype, stilted chatbots and indifferent language translation, suddenly AI can engage us in ...

After robot cars and robot rescue workers, US research agency Darpa is turning its attention to robot hackers. Best known for its part in bringing the internet into being, the Defence Advanced ...

Is it OK to kill time? Machines used to find this question difficult to answer, but a new study reveals that artificial intelligence can be programmed to judge “right” from “wrong”. Published in ...

A different kind of artificial intelligence might soon be protecting us from malicious hackers After robot cars and robot rescue workers, US research agency Darpa is turning its attention to robot ...

What is the measure of intelligence? And can an inanimate machine - however sophisticated - ever be said to be thinking for itself? It's a question that has preoccupied computer scientists - and ...