Machine Learning & AI

A First: AI System Named Inventor

IEEE Spectrum: The South African patent office made history in July when it issued a patent that listed an artificial intelligence system as the inventor. The patent is for a food container that uses fractal designs to create pits and bulges in its sides. Designed for the packaging industry, the…

Q&A: Cathy Wu on developing algorithms to safely integrate robots into our world

Robohub: Cathy Wu is the Gilbert W. Winslow Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering and a member of the MIT Institute for Data, Systems, and Society. By Kim…

How to Train your Decision-Making AIs

The Gradient: The combination of deep learning and decision learning has led to several impressive stories in decision-making AI research, including AIs that can play a variety of games (Atari video games, board games, complex real-time strategy game Starcraft II), control robots (in simulation and in the real world), and…

The therapists using AI to make therapy better

Technology Review: Kevin Cowley remembers many things about April 15, 1989. He had taken the bus to the Hillsborough soccer stadium in Sheffield, England, to watch the semifinal championship game between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool. He was 17. It was a…