Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In our AI-powered age of Alexa and ChatGPT, the idea of a mechanical automaton may seem out of step with the ...
Weighted automata extend classical automata by assigning quantitative values to transitions and accepting runs, thus enabling the analysis of quantitative properties such as costs, probabilities and ...
Artificial intelligence has now changed the ways in which we define machines, but the idea of a self-operating machine-what is generally called an automaton-is decidedly not new. The term automaton ...