Artificial Intelligence

Explore the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and automation. From AI ethics to real-world applications, this category delivers insights that matter for today and tomorrow.

Dispatch: Partying at one of Africa’s largest AI gatherings

It’s late August in Rwanda’s capital, Kigali, and people are filling a large hall at one of Africa’s biggest gatherings of minds in AI and machine learning. The room is draped in white curtains, and a giant screen blinks with…

Why AI should be able to “hang up” on you

Chatbots today are everything machines. If it can be put into words—relationship advice, work documents, code—AI will produce it, however imperfectly. But the one thing that almost no chatbot will ever do is stop talking to you.  That might seem…