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The Great AI Reckoning

Deep learning has built a brave new world—but now the cracks are showing
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The Turbulent Past and Uncertain Future of Artificial Intelligence

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How Deep Learning Works

Inside the neural networks that power today's AI

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Artificial IntelligenceMagazineFeatureSpecial ReportsOctober 2021The Great AI Reckoning

How DeepMind Is Reinventing the Robot

Having conquered Go and protein folding, the company turns to a really hard problem

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7 Revealing Ways AIs Fail

Neural networks can be disastrously brittle, forgetful, and surprisingly bad at math

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Artificial IntelligenceComputingRoboticsSpecial ReportsOpinionThe Great AI Reckoning

An Inconvenient Truth About AI

AI won't surpass human intelligence anytime soon

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Deep Learning’s Diminishing Returns

The cost of improvement is becoming unsustainable

10 min read
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RoboticsMagazineFeatureSpecial ReportsOctober 2021The Great AI Reckoning

How the U.S. Army Is Turning Robots Into Team Players

Engineers battle the limits of deep learning for battlefield bots

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