The concept of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around since long before the flashing lights and semi-conductor electronics of modern computers. In ancient times certain inanimate objects, such as towering mountains of stone, or the winding paths of river beds, were bestowed with a mystical property of divine inspiration and ongoing power to influence cultural affairs. In modern times we are, for the first time, now face to face with devices of a far less inanimate natu

Couple of months back Google owned Deep Mind designed a machine called AlphaGo able to beat the world`s best Go player. Machines beating humans in various games such as backgammon or chess is nothing new, this particular success however was something entirely different. In comparison to chess the game of Go has exponentially more possible moves. To illustrate this, in example after the first two moves in Chess there are 400 possible moves, in Go the number is close to 130,000

"Well, I have to go to the skull. I don't know." 2016 is the year of AI. Deep learning algorithms are rapidly being deployed in numerous areas ranging from playing Go to scientific research. Is the movie industry about to be disrupted as well? Well, not really, at least not yet... Last week Ars premiered Sunscreen, a short Sci-Fi movie made for Sci-Fi London entirely written by a deep learning algorithm called Benjamin. The project is the brainchild of filmmaker Oscar Sharp a

Recently we wrote about deep learning and its potential to revolutionize virtually every industry. One startup thinks that it can apply it to scientific research itself putting technological progress on an even faster development path. Meet ARIS.AI, the virtual assistant designed to scan through the entire scientific literature and categorize and display the relevant studies in any area in a easy to navigate structured way. As every post-grad student is very well aware of, mo