Colleagues joke that Jeff Dean increased the speed of light. Now he's charged with taking Google's artificial-intelligence efforts in new directions.Source: Wired - Emerging technologies News

A new breed of chips incorporate artificial intelligence into relatively cheap cameras, enabling new apps but also more ubiquitous surveillance.Source: Wired - Emerging technologies News

New techniques could help researchers outsource the grunt work of neuroscience.Source: Wired - Emerging technologies News

Algorithms used by Facebook, YouTube, and other platforms keep us clicking. But those systems often promote misinformation, abuse, and polarization. Is it possible to temper them with a sense of decency? Source: Wired - Emerging technologies News

A Google team created an app that asks users in India and elsewhere to identify household objects and public places, to boost the accuracy of its image-recognition services.Source: Wired - Emerging technologies News