Hundreds of Ph.D.s prowled the hallways of the eighth annual GPU Technology Conference in San Jose last week to catch up on the latest developments in AI. Also in attendance were hundreds of teens, getting their first taste of what AI can offer. ...

If you haven’t yet heard of generative adversarial networks, don’t worry, you will. The hottest topic in deep learning, GANs, as they’re called, have the potential to create systems that learn more with less help from humans. Just ask Ian ...

Romeo and Juliet. Peanut butter and chocolate. AI and VR. “They are star-crossed lovers, they’re destined for one another,” Director of Product for Watson Developer Labs Michael Ludden quipped. During last week’s GPU Technology Conference, Ludden ...

Self-driving cars are meant to keep us safe. But even if you drive yourself, AI could be looking out for you. If configured to do so, AI, like a guardian angel, could even take over the car. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang showed how that could work last ...

It doesn’t take a VR headset to see the future, but it helps. Our second VR Content Showcase, held this week at the GPU Technology Conference, featured a record 120 entrants, pitches by 10 finalists and $30,000 in cash and prizes. Capturing top ...

Self-driving cars need AI, and we delivered big on AI at the GPU Technology Conference in Silicon Valley this week. During his keynote, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang made a host of announcements that will change how the automotive industry ...

A robot takeover of medicine? Not so fast, says Stanford University’s Daniel Rubin. While AI can be a reliable medical tool, it’s not going to replace your doctor, said Rubin, an associate professor of biomedical data science, radiology, medicine ...

Deaf people can’t hear. Most hearing people don’t understand sign language. That’s a communication gap AI can help bridge, Syed Tousif Ahmed, a research assistant at the Rochester Technology Institute’s Future Everyday Technology Lab explained at ...

We all need all the help we can get in the kitchen. Whether that involves meal planning or roasting the perfect chicken, deep learning promises to help bring more to the joy of cooking. Thanks to deep learning, you’ll soon get the kind of help no ...

How do you teach a drone to fly better? Make it hallucinate. Okay. So how do you make a drone hallucinate? With VR, of course. Still with us? Good. Let’s explain. MIT’s Sertac Karaman has been building drones and teaching them to fly autonomously ...