TESLA MAKES CARS. Now, it’s also the latest company to seek an edge in artificial intelligence by making its own silicon chips. At a promotional event last month, Tesla revealed details of a custom AI chip called D1 for training the machine-learning algorithm behind its Autopilot self-driving system. The event…

There was this interesting little advertisement in the Times of India that offered training in the use of spreadsheets which caught my attention for several reasons. As a young product manager in a pharmaceutical company, I had access to a fair amount…

A handful of superstar U.S. metro areas are leading the way in AI, while much of the rest of the country is at risk of being left behind. Why it matters: AI can enhance productivity and growth in multiple sectors, but as a…

As the Center for Strategic and International Studies reports, “Whether measured in terms of triadic patents (patents filed in the United States, Europe, and Japan), most available measures of productivity, or even startup company creation, the United States’ trademark innovative spirit has been…

Hello, New York! For the first time, lawyers can apply legal analytics to cases heard in New York County Supreme Court (“New York County”). Lex Machina, a subsidiary of RELX, the British information corporate formerly known as Reed Elsevier, is announcing today…

The mayors of several European capitals have been duped into holding video calls with a deepfake of their counterpart in Kyiv, Vitali Klitschko. The mayor of Berlin, Franziska Giffey, took part in a scheduled call on the Webex video conferencing platform on Friday…

If you want to imagine the future of healthcare, you can do no better than to read cardiologist and bestselling author Eric Topol’s trilogy on the subject: “The Creative Destruction of Medicine,” “The Patient Will See You Now,” and “Deep Medicine.” “Deep…

This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. When you look at the following short video sequence, you can make inferences about causal relations between different elements. For…

This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. Deep learning can detect abnormal chest x-rays with accuracy that matches that of professional radiologists, according to a new paper by a…