Some say that if you can’t measure something, you’re not doing science. Bayesian logic offers a way to measure things that were previously unmeasurable, allowing us to test hypotheses and predictions ...

Microsoft's animated helper proved so unpopular that even the company made fun of its decision to put it on the sidelines. Clippy, the Microsoft Office character that pops up to assist users -- often ...

Given the choice between a flesh-and-blood doctor and an artificial intelligence system for diagnosing diseases, Pedro Domingos is willing to stake his life on AI. “I’d trust the machine more than I’d ...

Politicians are often accused of "flip-flopping" when they change their minds about a policy that they once supported. Is this such a bad thing? As we learn more and more about COVID-19, public health ...

Bayes’s core contribution, which Chivers skillfully renders into cogent prose designed to educate the lay reader, is the notion that the likelihood of an event taking place in the future depends, in ...

Neuroscientists have found the neural wiring underlying predictive eye-tracking of movements and watched in monkeys as the circuit is set to predict a given speed. They say the neurons of the brain's ...