In a fascinating bit of silicon serendipity, it turns out that the same technology that can conjure up a gorgeous alien landscape or paint a picture-perfect explosion is also nearly optimal for the hottest area of AI: deep learning. Deep learning enables a computer to learn by itself, without programmers having to code everything by …
China’s high-speed railways now exceed 20,000 km in length with the opening of a line linking Zhengzhou in central China’s Henan Province with Xuzhou in eastern Jiangsu Province Saturday. People in Langfang in Hebei, 55 km (34 miles) south of Beijing can commute to Beijing in only 21 minutes using the high speed rail. It …
AlphaGo, the first computer program to beat a professional Go player, is playing its first match with the legendary Lee Sedol—the top Go player of the past decade—in a five-game match in Seoul, Korea. Go is a profoundly complex game, which is why this has always been regarded as the outstanding grand challenge for artificial …