artificial intelligence

A controversial theory suggests that perception, motor control, memory and other brain functions all depend on comparisons between ongoing actual experiences and the brain’s modeled expectations.

Judea Pearl, a pioneering figure in artificial intelligence, argues that AI has been stuck in a decades-long rut. His prescription for progress? Teach machines to understand the question why.

In new computer experiments, artificial-intelligence algorithms can tell the future of chaotic systems.

The latest artificial intelligence systems start from zero knowledge of a game and grow to world-beating in a matter of hours. But researchers are struggling to apply these systems beyond the arcade.

The fusion of quantum computing and machine learning has become a booming research area. Can it possibly live up to its high expectations?

When equipped with hidden layers, deep neural networks can accomplish nonlinear feats that are difficult even with sophisticated mathematics.

And not destroy humanity in the process.

A new version of AlphaGo needed no human instruction to figure out how to clobber the best Go player in the world — itself.

What happens when you increase the number of layers in an artificial neural network?