Elizabeth Spelke, a cognitive psychologist at Harvard, has spent her career testing the world’s most sophisticated learning system–the mind of a baby. Gurgling infants might seem like no match for artificial intelligence. They are terrible at labeling images, hopeless at mining text, and awful at videogames. Then again, babies can […]
As Machines Get Smarter, How Will We Relate to Them?
Bicycling in a hilly, busy city like San Francisco provides a cognitive as well as a physical workout. I survive in traffic by flexing not only my quadriceps but my theory of mind, the capacity to imagine the thoughts and intentions of others: Will the guy riding a Bird scooter […]
Is the Brain a Useful Model for Artificial Intelligence?
In the summer of 2009, the Israeli neuroscientist Henry Markram strode onto the TED stage in Oxford, England, and made an immodest proposal: Within a decade, he said, he and his colleagues would build a complete simulation of the human brain inside a supercomputer. They’d already spent years mapping the […]
German investor morale improves on hopes for economic turnaround
Economy18 hours ago (May 19, 2020 05:45AM ET) (C) Reuters. FILE PHOTO: VW re-starts Europe’s largest car factory after coronavirus shutdown BERLIN (Reuters) – German investor sentiment improved much more than expected in May as concerns about the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on Europe’s largest economy eased and hopes […]
UK jobless claims jump to highest since 1996 as COVID hits
(C) Reuters. People walk in an office in the financial centre of Canary Wharf By David Milliken and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – The number of people claiming unemployment benefits in Britain leapt in April to its highest level in nearly 24 years, giving the clearest sign yet of the […]
UK jobless claims jump to highest since 1996 as COVID crisis hits
(C) Reuters. People walk in an office in the financial centre of Canary Wharf By David Milliken and William Schomberg LONDON (Reuters) – The number of people claiming unemployment benefits in Britain leapt in April to its highest level in nearly 24 years, giving the clearest sign yet of the […]
European new car sales down 78.3% in April: ACEA
Economic Indicators9 hours ago (May 19, 2020 02:30AM ET) (C) Reuters. Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Madrid BERLIN (Reuters) – European passenger car sales slumped in April as the first full month with restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus pandemic across the continent dragged sales to a record drop, data […]