Half a century ago, a philosopher imagined a world where we could fulfil our desires through digital simulations. He argued we'd prefer reality, but was he right? In a pivotal scene in the movie The ...

For more than 20 years in experimental particle physics and astrophysics, machine learning has been accelerating the pace of science, helping scientists tackle problems of greater and greater ...

In 2007, Christoph Bartneck, a robotics professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, decided to stage an experiment loosely based on the famous (and infamous) Milgram obedience study. In ...

It turns out there’s a fatal flaw in most companies’ approach to machine learning, the analytical tool of the future: 87% of projects do not get past the experiment phase and so never make it into ...

Machine learning startup Weights and Biases Inc. said today it has raised $45 million in a new round of funding that brings its total amount raised to $65 million. The Series B round was led by ...

It’s…sort of right? But the winning map of electoral preferences produced by Algorithmia’s DanKu experiment was in service of a larger question. (Algorithmia ...