artificial intelligence

Orwellian scenarios involving AI are closer than most people realize, spawning a tense debate: how far AI should be allowed to go?

As a chess legend, Garry Kasparov always looks several moves ahead—and his new book envisions what the future will hold

Artificial intelligence is catnip to cheque-wielding politicians. But their investments won’t pay unless we stop hawking patents

It’s no longer just factory workers and long-haul truck drivers at risk of being replaced by robots. Now lawyers could be automated out of work, too.

A Q&A with Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of ’deep learning’—which helped Google’s AlphaGo beat a grandmaster—on the past, present and future of AI

The showstopper on the iPhone 4S isn’t just useful. It’s clever, too.

Professors want to help students in developing world

High-tech tutors encourage, empathize with math students

Ballpoints tend to be the least tolerant of the bunch

Researchers around the world are getting closer to cracking the code of a universal translation device