For Bayesians, creating the master algorithm boils down to efficiently implementing Bayes's theorem, a mathematical rule for updating our degree of belief in a hypothesis when we see new evidence.

The latest research from MIT, the TACO method, has brought groundbreaking progress to the field of artificial intelligence. The core of this research lies in endowing AI agents with a more powerful ...

Ray Kurzweil is a famous futurist who's always banked on the coming of the singularity — when artificial intelligence overcomes human intelligence.

Often they are convinced that this is the master algorithm, and that they will solve the whole learning problem with it. I myself don’t think any of those things by themselves are the master ...

Superintelligence, roughly defined as an AI algorithm that can solve all problems better than people, will be a watershed for humanity and tech. Even the best human experts have trouble making ...

Artificial intelligence permeates everything at Facebook, the social network’s head of applied machine learning says—and humans are bound to understand Facebook less than ever.