Engineers are using cognitive psychology, including techniques for studying how human children learn, to uncover the inherent biases built into AIs and machine learning that can lead to mistakes.
Christopher Mims
Technology columnist, The Wall Street Journal.Christopher Mims writes Keywords, a weekly column on technology. Before joining the Journal in 2014, he was the lead technology reporter for Quartz and has written on science and tech for publications ranging from Technology Review, Smithsonian, Wired, the Atlantic, Slate and other publications. Mims, who has degree in neuroscience and behavioral biology from Emory University, lives in Baltimore.
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A wave of interest in modular design and building from tech-focused startups may finally bring down costs and lift productivity in the construction industry.
Apple Inc. will still sell an iPhone, but expect the device to morph into a suite of apps and services, enhanced with AI and AR, part of a ‘body area network’ of devices, batteries and sensors.
Uber and its new leadership will have to come to grips with a fundamental vulnerability that is increasingly apparent in the company’s business model.
A handful of tech giants are spreading their tentacles into industries no one ever expected them to and reshaping our world in their image.
Facebook’s plan to enable us to type 100 words a minute just by thinking is a long shot, and it reflects the company’s new approach to R&D.
The Future of Everything
A Hardware Update for the Human Brain
From Silicon Valley startups to the U.S. Department of Defense, scientists and engineers are hard at work on a brain-computer interface that could turn us into programmable, debuggable machines.
Keywords
Why Remote Work Can’t Be Stopped
Even as work-from-home policies are reconsidered at big companies like IBM and Aetna, more Americans overall are working remotely than ever before.
Wall Street, long obsessed with quarterly profits, has a message for chief executives of big established companies: Pick up the pace of innovation and make riskier bets sooner.
The global “WannaCry” ransomware attack that affected computers in 150 countries and the growing threat of new malware illustrate a basic problem that will become more pressing as more of our systems become connected.
Adidas and Caterpillar are among companies using next-generation 3-D printing tech to make sneakers, tractor parts and more—bringing us one step closer to the era of customized goods on demand.
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