A new wave of chatbots are replacing physicians and providing frontline medical advice—but are they as good as the real thing? Read more »
Analyzing the way you type and scroll can reveal as much as a psychological test. Read more »
We’ve been using it to type for 144 years. Here’s why it works, and what it would take for us to give it up. Read more »
Even the best AI programs still make stupid mistakes. So DARPA is launching a competition to remedy the field’s most glaring flaw. Read more »
A simulation lets autonomous cars experience situations that are too dangerous to try in reality. Read more »
Lockheed Martin engineers wear the goggles to help them assemble the crew capsule Orion—without having to read thousands of pages of paper instructions. Read more »
In as little as 24 hours, Mapper will deliver a machine-readable map of any place on earth with public roads. Read more »
It should be possible to automatically identify dubious news sources—but we’ll need a lot more data. Read more »
The White House should worry less about China’s progress and invest heavily in artificial intelligence breakthroughs, according to Kai-Fu Lee. Read more »
A fresh diplomatic push could help put vital public services off limits to nation-state cyberattacks. Read more »