There’s a real risk that a flood of AI agents will join our economic systems with essentially no legal infrastructure in ...

Acemoglu and Johnson have said that the big companies developing and deploying AI overwhelmingly favour automation (replacing ...

Let’s hope the prize motivates well-endowed technology firms to invest much more in using AI for public service efforts.

Bell, Google Canada, Desjardins, and the Fonds de solidarité de Québec (FTQ) pledged a total of $5.25 million CAD to support ...

Just as the PC and cloud defined much of Microsoft’s first 50 years, and just as its struggles in mobile set the company back ...

The day before, Geoffrey Hinton, a former executive at Google who’s been called ... Google, which derives close to 80% of its revenue from advertising, is now putting ads into its new AI search tool.

Hinton, notably of the University of Toronto, has been basically a household name in computer science; this year, he was ...

Geoffrey Hinton has significantly contributed to artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in neural networks, deep learning ...

There were standing ovations, peals of laughter and even a few tears as the University of Toronto welcomed Geoffrey Hinton back to campus after he won the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. A University ...

The recent Nobel Prize awarded to Geoffrey Hinton for his contributions to artificial intelligence (AI) has sparked controversy, exposing a deeper issue in how society rewards innovation.

The Nobel Prize—the highest honor in science—should recognize the full spectrum of contributions. The oversight in Hinton’s ...