How the shape of deep learning—and the fate of the tech industry—went up for sale in Harrah's Room 731, on the shores of Lake Tahoe.

OpenAI, now managed by start-up guru Sam Altman, wants to create a machine that can do anything the human brain can do. Skeptics wonder if it is possible.

For half a century, Geoffrey Hinton nurtured the technology at the heart of chatbots like ChatGPT. Now he worries it will cause serious harm.

In a free service, bots call restaurants and make reservations. The technology is impressive, except for when the caller is actually a person.

Forty-five young companies are building processors just for artificial intelligence. At least five have raised more than $100 million from investors.

Completing someone else’s thought is not an easy trick for A.I. But new systems are starting to crack the code of natural language.

Chess and Go were child’s play. Now A.I. is winning at capture the flag. Will such skills translate to the real world?

Slate Star Codex was a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future. Then it disappeared.

Tax forms filed by OpenAI provide insight into the enormous salaries and bonuses paid to artificial intelligence specialists across the world.

Large databases, built with images from social networks and dating services, contain millions of pictures of people’s faces. Some are shared worldwide.

One of the pioneers of artificial intelligence argues that chatbots are often prodded into producing strange results by the people who are using them.

At a new website called Character.AI, you can chat with a reasonable facsimile of almost anyone, live or dead, real or (especially) imagined.

Sam Altman sees the pros and cons of totally changing the world as we know it. And if he does make human intelligence useless, he has a plan to fix it.

In 2013, the company started an ambitious, flashy effort to create robots. Now, its goals are more modest, but the technology is subtly more advanced.

A recent letter calling for a moratorium on A.I. development blends real threats with speculation. But concern is growing among experts.

An online tool targets only a small slice of what’s out there, but may open some eyes to how widely artificial intelligence research fed on personal images.

Nearly all big tech companies have an artificial intelligence project, and they are willing to pay experts millions of dollars to help get it done.

At Google, Facebook and other tech companies, executives are making statements about priorities with their seating charts.

Facebook has heralded artificial intelligence as a solution to its toxic content problems. Mike Schroepfer, its chief technology officer, says it won’t solve everything.

We took a ride with Tesla’s experimental self-driving system. It was by turns intriguing, impressive and scary.

Pieter Abbeel, a Berkeley professor, is part of the team that has started Embodied Intelligence to make it possible for robots to learn on their own.

Although machines are now capable of moments of genius, humans have hardly lost the ability to generate their own.

Artificial intelligence is being taught by thousands of office workers around the world. It is not exactly futuristic work.

Perfecting the technology has taken longer than expected. The coronavirus pandemic has made it even more difficult.

Researchers in Finland have developed artificial intelligence that can generate images of celebrity look-alikes — and another system that tests how believable they are.

A video producer claims he was fired after he complained that an obscure group based in the Sierra foothills dominated a business unit at Google.

The Turing test used to be the gold standard for proving machine intelligence. This generation of bots is racing past it.

They said the administration’s policies were driving away technology talent and could do long-term damage to their industry.

Google and others, fighting for a small pool of researchers, are looking for automated ways to deal with a shortage of artificial intelligence experts.

New research shows scientists educated in China help American firms and schools dominate the cutting-edge field. Now industry leaders worry that worsening political tensions will blunt that edge.

A day after handing its autonomous car project to a Silicon Valley start-up, Uber is ridding itself of another expensive operation.

For all the excitement around places like Austin and Miami, the biggest tech expansion has been in Canada’s largest city.

He created the mobile computing companies Palm and Handspring. But for decades his passion has been studying how the human brain works.

An investment frenzy over “generative artificial intelligence” has gripped Silicon Valley, as tools that generate text, images and sounds in response to short prompts seize the imagination.

As a new chatbot wows the world with its conversational talents, a resurgent tech giant is poised to reap the benefits while doubling down on a relationship with the start-up OpenAI.

Researchers at the Allen Institute have hit an artificial-intelligence milestone: a machine that is ready for high school science. Maybe even college.

OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence...

When Google engineers John Sirois, Travis Crawford, and Bill Farner left the internet giant and went to work for Twitter, they missed Borg. Borg was the sweeping software system that managed the...

At a facility near Berlin, a new kind of robot is automating tasks that until recently had been out of the reach of machines.

Researchers are using artificial intelligence to create recipes, complete with appetizing photos and back stories. But Thanksgiving poses a challenge.

Researchers at DeepMind say they have solved “the protein folding problem,” a task that has bedeviled scientists for more than 50 years.

This is the first time an artificially intelligent system has topped one of the best at Go. Its victory shows how quickly AI will progress in years to come.

Few are as involved in so many different artificial intelligence efforts as Mr. Hoffman, a Silicon Valley investor who co-founded LinkedIn.

It has long had technology to rival chatbots like ChatGPT, but can’t afford to back artificial intelligence that can spread misinformation and toxic content.

The Microsoft co-founder will give $125 million to his nonprofit research lab to help develop technology that adds common sense to artificial intelligence.

The Times asked GPT-3 to tell us a little about itself and its romantic life.

The former Google C.E.O. has reinvented himself as the prime liaison between Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex.

No, chatbots aren’t sentient. Here’s how their underlying technology works.

When Google forced out two well-known artificial intelligence experts, a long-simmering research controversy burst into the open.

By some estimates, only 1,000 or so researchers can claim to understand the technology. Finding more could become a national security issue.

The messaging system that he and a friend created in 1978 was a forerunner of social media services like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

Technology companies were once leery of what some artificial intelligence could do. Now the priority is winning control of the industry’s next big thing.

The world’s top artificial intelligence labs are honing technology that can mimic how humans write, which could one day help disinformation campaigns go undetected by generating huge amounts of...

The latest natural-language system generates tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages and even writes its own computer programs.

A.I. research is becoming increasingly expensive, leaving few people with easy access to the computing firepower necessary to develop the technology.

A new wave of chat bots like ChatGPT use artificial intelligence that could reinvent or even replace the traditional internet search engine.

Our personal tech columnist shares how to improve many parts of your life.

Homeland Security is introducing a $1.5 million contest to build artificial intelligence that can identify concealed items in body scans at airports.

The Commerce Department is considering national security restrictions on artificial intelligence. Some worry they could stunt the industry in the U.S.

Previous advances in A.I. inspired predictions that the law was the lucrative profession most likely to suffer job losses. It didn’t happen. Is this time different?

Tech innovations are again racing ahead of Washington’s ability to regulate them, lawmakers and A.I. experts said.

Google's Go-playing AI is going head-to-head in China against the world's best player. But inside the country, you can't get much of a view of the match.

The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World

The order did not set aside additional funds for A.I. development, and officials provided few details about how it would track the progress of the administration’s new policies.

The curious case of the hallucinating software.

In a free service, bots call restaurants and make reservations. The technology is impressive, except for when the caller is actually a person.

A new technology called Codex generates programs in 12 coding languages and even translates between them. But it is not a threat to professional programmers.

The chip could improve how quickly artificial intelligence systems can learn tasks. But its complexity and size (as big as a plate) could be a challenge.

Founded by ex-Google researchers, the Toronto company is among the few start-ups prepared to compete with the creator of ChatGPT.

Recent charges, convictions and sentences all indicate that the start-up world’s habit of playing fast and loose with the truth actually has consequences.