Facebook’s “Superhuman” Poker AI Out-Bluffs World’s Top Players
By: Victor Tangermann July 12, 2019 An artificial intelligence called Pluribus, created by Facebook’s AI lab and researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, just beat a team of 12 of the world’s best human online poker players. The AI won an average of five bucks per hand, cashing in roughly a grand every hour. “It’s safe […]
Gene Therapy Restores Vision in Blind Mice
By: Dan Robitzski_ July 12, 2019 Thanks to a new gene therapy targeting specific cells in the eye, blind mice have regained the ability to see. A team of neuroscientists developed a treatment that re-activated the Cngb1 gene, which when disabled causes light-detecting rod cells found in the retina to deteriorate, according to research recently […]
Why does Beijing suddenly care about AI ethics?
By: Technology Review May 31, 2019 Did China and the US just agree on something?This week, Chinese scientists and engineers released a code of ethics for artificial intelligence that might signal a willingness from Beijing to rethink how it uses the technology. And while China’s government is widely criticized for using AI as a way […]
Marc Andreessen denies claims he met with Cambridge Analytica in 2016
By: World News Network March 18, 2019 A prominent Silicon Valley investor and Facebook board member has denied claims that he met with a Cambridge Analytica representative as early as 2016.The Observer reported that Marc Andreessen, a founding partner at VC firm Andreessen Horowitz and current Facebook board member, hosted a meeting with former Cambridge Analytica […]
Conglomerates will never die out, but their form is evolving
By: The Economist February 21, 2019 Industrial conglomerates have long been considered the megafauna of the corporate world: big beasts like mastodons, who were condemned to extinction by spear-wielding corporate raiders in the 1980s. But a better analogy is with cockroaches because, against the odds, conglomerates have refused to die out. They flourish in most climates […]