The philosopher Peter Singer argues that creatures that can feel pain or suffer have a claim to moral standing. As real artificial intelligence technology advances toward Hollywood’s imagined versions, the question of moral standing grows more important. If AIs have…
A machine learning algorithm accurately determined how well skin cancer patients would respond to tumor-suppressing drugs in four out of five cases, according to research conducted by a team from NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Perlmutter Cancer Center. “While…
As bicycle sharing becomes a popular solution for city dwellers, some researchers are seeing an opportunity to create decentralized networks of mobile sensors. Several bike-sharing companies have started to equip their vehicles with detectors that collect information about environmental and…
Taking the UK as an example, the UK’s road traffic legislation is driven by international frameworks such as UNECE Regulations and from EU directives that set out the requirements for vehicle approvals and product liability. Currently, the industry is grappling…
The president-elect is expected to keep the Trump administration’s antitrust case against Google on track, potentially even opening additional cases into Facebook, Amazon and Apple. And antitrust legislation, usually framed as an existential threat to “tech” broadly, stands to benefit…
The Google team provided so little information about its code and how it was tested that the study amounted to nothing more than a promotion of proprietary tech. “We couldn’t take it anymore,” says Benjamin Haibe-Kains.“When we saw that paper…
