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Games AI plays StarCraft II at "Grandmaster" level Rob Beschizza

infinite monkeys StoryAI, a bot that autocompletes a story for you Clive Thompson

google AI Drama: Google DeepMind's Mustafa Suleyman abruptly placed on leave, no reason given for departure Xeni Jardin

Games Looks like the Deepmind Starcraft AI relied on superhuman speed after all Rob Beschizza

Copyfight Building a high-performance cluster of Gameboy emulators to teach computers to play video games Cory Doctorow

Business Leaked memos reveal the deep divisions within Google over Pentagon contract Cory Doctorow

artificial intelligence Google's talking AI is indistinguishable from humans Mark Frauenfelder

Science AlphaGo Zero shows that corporate R&D has starved basic research in favor of safe bets and tinkering at the margins Cory Doctorow

AI Libratus poker AI beats several of the world's best players Andrea James

Technology Google, Facebook, Amazon, IBM, and Microsoft join forces to protect humans from robots Xeni Jardin

happy mutants White House contends with AI's big social challenges, July 7/NYC Cory Doctorow

politics Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking call for ban on "autonomous weapons" Xeni Jardin