Thu, Feb 25 2021

Last week, in a move that will have felt abrupt and dramatic to many, Facebook announced it was stopping the sharing of news on its service in Australia. This has now been resolved following discussions with the Australian Government — we…

By 2022, it's expected that AI will produce 30% of all content found on the internet. To respond, children's education should go beyond formulaic writing, encompassing skills that AI cannot match. Academic Lucinda McKnight explains how we can make…

UCL has agreed a four-year research partnership with Facebook AI Research (FAIR), enabling PhD students to spend time at both UCL Computer Science and Facebook. This new strategic partnership between UCL and FAIR, sees Facebook's PhD programme…

Reinforcement learning promises to solve complex sequential-decision problems autonomously by specifying a high-level reward function only. However, reinforcement learning algorithms struggle when, as is often the case, simple and intuitive rewards…

This article is part of our new series, Currents, which examines how rapid advances in technology are transforming our lives. I wake up in the middle of the night. It's cold. “Hey, Google, what's the temperature in Zone 2,” I say into…