It’s useful to think of our engagement with algorithms as a social contract. Political theorists have long used the social contract as a device to explain why individuals submit to the authority of a ...

Experts say ABC represents a major step forward in bio-inspired computing. By replicating the collective intelligence and ...

Discover how ancient DNA and AI combine to uncover powerful new antibiotics, offering hope in the fight against antimicrobial ...

Five federally funded AI institutes provide a backbone for agriculture-focused AI research. The grand challenge facing global ...

D-Wave Systems is making some serious waves in the world of quantum computing. You might have heard about quantum computers and wondered what all the fuss is about. Well, D-Wave is one of the ...

Building good AI for health means we need clean data, strong computer systems, and careful attention to ethics and safety. AI ...

Determining the least expensive path for a new subway line underneath a metropolis like New York City is a colossal planning challenge—involving thousands of potential routes through hundreds of city ...

The same personalized algorithms that deliver online content based on your previous choices on social media sites like ...

Personalized algorithms may quietly sabotage how people learn, nudging them into narrow tunnels of information even when they ...

The authors have performed a potentially valuable new kind of analysis in connectomics, mapping to an interesting developmental problem of synaptic input to sensory neurons. While the analysis itself ...