Some AI technologies aren’t advanced enough to provide useful insights, but simpler tools can yield new opportunities to explore the humanities.
- Assistant Professor of Integrative Biology & Computer Science and Engineering, Michigan State University
Artificial intelligence research owes a lot to biology and chemistry.
For future machines to be as smart as we are, they’ll need to be able to learn like we do.
He spends his days developing artificial intelligence systems. What about AI keeps him up at night?
Twenty years after Deep Blue beat Garry Kasparov at chess, artificial intelligence can make games more fun, and perhaps even endlessly enjoyable, if it learns to adapt.
We need to do more than teach machines to learn. We need to overcome the barriers that separate machines from us – and us from them.
While it’s impressive, developing a computer to win at Go is not a big step toward the type of artificial intelligence used by the thinking machines we see in the movies.
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