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In a speech late last month, Chinese leader Xi Jinping declared blockchain “an important breakthrough,” and promised that China would “seize the opportunity.” He detailed the ways the Chinese government would support blockchain research, development, and standardization.  The significance shouldn’t be...

A new test to check if a quantum computer is giving correct answers to questions beyond the scope of traditional computing could help the first quantum computer that can outperform a classical computer to be realized. By creating a protocol...

The immense capabilities artificial intelligence is bringing to the world would have been inconceivable to past generations. But even as we marvel at the incredible power these new technologies afford, we’re faced with complex and urgent questions about the balance...

A woman sits at a computer, video chatting with her young son while she gently pats an interface on a separate screen. In response, a wireless patch on the child’s back vibrates in a pattern that matches his mother’s fingers,...

There’s much robots can achieve by observing human demonstrations, like the actions necessary to move a box of crackers from a counter to storage. But imitation learning is by no means a perfect science — demonstrators often complete subgoals that...

Leaders in artificial intelligence warn that progress is slowing, big challenges remain, and simply throwing more computers at a problem isn’t sustainable. More than 13,000 artificial intelligence experts visited the Vancouver world’s leading academic AI conference, NeurIPS. One of Google’s top researchers gave...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is developing into a paradigm that will more or less revolutionize almost all other “trends” in 2020 and beyond. Departments can benefit as much as CIOs. Employees from the specialist departments of practically all companies are increasingly...

When it comes to climate change, there isn’t just one tipping point but many that scientists are increasingly pulling into view. These days, in the journal Nature, a group of researchers argues that we’re closer to tipping nine climate demons...

The first university in the world to align its entire range of courses to artificial intelligence was recently founded in Abu Dhabi. While in Germany you still have the final budget for investing in artificial intelligence discussed, decisions are made...

A new image recognition algorithm uses the way humans see things for inspiration. When humans look at a new image of something, we identify what it is based on a collection of recognizable features. We might identify the species of...