The seven decades of "artificial intelligence" have been marked by exaggerated promises, surprising developments and ...

The term “artificial intelligence” dates back to the mid-1950s, when mathematician John McCarthy, widely recognized as the father of AI, used it to describe machines that do things people might call ...

I have just finished reading this excellent book by Kate Crawford titled Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and The Planetary ...

Just a few weeks into 2025, the newly elected president Donald Trump announced an investment of $500 billion to bolster the ...

In 2023, working with Mathew Berube, head of Information Services at the Jones Library in Amherst, several of my old columns ...

Reactive systems have their roots in early AI research and finite state machines, foundational concepts that emerged in the mid-20th century through the work of pioneers like John McCarthy and ...

Policies surrounding AI must change throughout society as a whole, but first the use of the technology must be controlled in ...

The term 'artificial intelligence' was coined for a summer conference at Dartmouth University, organised by a young computer scientist, John McCarthy. Top scientists debated how to tackle AI.

But China isn’t standing still. The country is already looking beyond DeepSeek, with plans to integrate AI into emerging ...