Scientists are exploring approaches that would help machines develop their own sort of common sense. Credit...Todd St. John Supported by By Craig S. Smith This article is part of our latest Artificial ...

A few years ago, a computer scientist named Yejin Choi gave a presentation at an artificial-intelligence conference in New Orleans. On a screen, she projected a frame from a newscast where two anchors ...

For six or seven decades, computers have been based on processing electronic 1s and 0s. Now, computer scientists are breaking out of that paradigm in strange new directions, as they seek new ways to ...

Machine learning is all about getting computers to “understand” new concepts, but it’s still a pretty inefficient process, often requiring hundreds of examples for training. That may soon change, ...

Your phone finishes your sentences, your camera detects faces and your streaming app suggests songs you never thought you would want, thanks to classical AI systems. These are powerful logic engines: ...

Darla Purce and Brittany Cleckley stepped up to help fill a shortage. As schools across the country start the school year via distanced learning due to the coronavirus pandemic, some students are ...

Computer Learning Centers suspended classes at its 25 campuses on Monday, after the company took successive hits from the U.S. Education Department and a lender that left it without enough money to ...

Every rock on Earth is a time capsule, holding traces of our planet from when the minerals first formed. Consider a smidge of 164-million-year-old clay, says M. Joseph Pasterski, an organic geochemist ...

The researchers hooked the Brainoware organoid computer chip into a system, treating it as an "adaptive living reservoir," made sure the mini-brain was responding to electrical inputs in a suitably ...

Ah, back to school. As a longtime urban high school educator, I experience both happy anticipation and dread. I love the kids; they’re the best part. After years in the field, I still get excited ...