Machine learning & AI

AI raises profound moral questions—for all of humanity to answer

Will you be flagged at the border? Will your mortgage application be approved? During wartime, whose neighborhood would a weapon system target? These are moral choices—about harm and fairness—and they used to be made by people.

Consumer & Gadgets

How AI chatbots become better learning coaches

Many AI systems answer questions in a matter of seconds—and, in the process, often prevent people from doing exactly what learning is all about: thinking for themselves. Machine learning expert Jakub Mačina is therefore developing ...

Machine learning & AI

This researcher put AI in the big game. It did not play well

A researcher analyzing reams of data. A traveler translating a foreign language. A student writing an essay. There are many ways that artificial intelligence has been proven to help an individual in a challenging situation. ...

Machine learning & AI

The art of literary translation exposes the limits of AI

For centuries, people have dreamed of undoing Babel. Sci-fi novelists envisioned universal translators, and linguists devised international languages, all in pursuit of a world where one person could speak and another could ...

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