Weekend Roundup: Apple AirPods Pro, StarCraft A.I., and Twitter Takes a Stand Nick Kolakowski, November 1, 2019 5 min read If you’re a fan of Apple earbuds, social-media controversy, and the possibility that A.I. will rise up and enslave...
Is Alphabet’s DeepMind in Deep, Deep Trouble? Nick Kolakowski, August 23, 2019 3 min read DeepMind, the A.I.-centric subsidiary of Alphabet, is bleeding money: last year, it lost $571 million, according to...
Google Pays Its DeepMind Tech Professionals a Huge Salary Sarah Butcher, August 8, 2019 3 min read As banks dangle their feet in the murky waters of machine learning and spend big money recruiting artificial...
DeepMind Trains ‘Collaborative’ A.I. on ‘Quake III’ Nick Kolakowski, June 3, 2019 3 min read Artificial intelligence (A.I.) developers have long used games as a way to train their latest A.I. models. That trend...
Wanted: Ethics for Artificial Intelligence Platforms Nick Kolakowski, October 5, 2017 3 min read Now that artificial intelligence (A.I.) has evolved from the theoretical to the practical, it’s perhaps time to...
DeepMind, Blizzard Open “Starcraft II” A.I. Tools Nick Kolakowski, August 11, 2017 2 min read Late last year, Google’s DeepMind announced that it would use Blizzard’s ultra-popular “Starcraft II” game...
‘StarCraft’ is the Latest A.I. Testbed Nick Kolakowski, November 9, 2016 3 min read Gaming is a rich arena for artificial intelligence (A.I.) research. What better way to test a platform’s ability to...
Google Uses A.I. to Refine Its Datacenters Nick Kolakowski, July 21, 2016 3 min read Google has found a novel use for artificial intelligence: lowering the power bill for its datacenters. In order to...