Computers are one of those artifacts of modern life that we love to hate. They are powerful, pervasive, intrusive and, let’s face it, clumsy to use. Today’s applications require us to break down ...

Other definitions refer to “computer systems modeled after the human brain.”[ii] IBM’s well known foray into the space centered on Watson, which competed with humans in playing Jeopardy, and won.

Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross wears many hats: he runs a company called Gemedy in Boston focused on artificial general intelligence (AGI), he has a number of academic appointments at Harvard and MIT, and he ...

In 2012, 9.6 million adults in the United States had lived with a serious mental illness in the past year. Also, 20 percent of adults over age fifty have depression, and about 11 percent suffer from ...