Intelligence

A growing body of research has demonstrated that algorithms and other types of software can be discriminatory, yet the vague nature of these tools…

Read Neurology and psychiatry come together in The Disordered Mind: What unusual brains tell us about ourselves (Little, Brown), a masterful…

Genome-wide association studies, which look for links between particular genetic variants and incidence of disease, are the basis of much modern…

For anyone deeply allergic to Medium or has used their free articles for the month and can’t circumvent the paywall (cough, incognito), here are the…

Last week, humanity struck back against the machines — sort of. Actually, we beat them at a video game. In a best-of-three match, two teams of pro…

More accounts banned from FacebookREUTERS/Regis Duvignau By New Scientist staff and Press Association Facebook has identified and banned more…

SoftBank Robotics’ Pepper, seen here at LiveWorx 2018, will expand its emotional intelligence ability following a partnership with Affectiva.…

Google Cloud’s Text-to-Speech and Speech-to-Text APIs are getting a bunch of updates today that introduce support for more languages, make it easier…

If we produce something capable of passing the Turing test – something capable of mimicking human responses under certain conditions to such a degree…

MIT continues its efforts to transform the process of drug design and manufacturing with a new MIT-industry consortium, the Machine Learning for…