Self-driving cars can make traffic safer, as they never blink or focus on switching the radio station. They have no blind spots, and they can simultaneously process information at a rate that no human can match.
We are creating learning systems to interpret the intended meaning of social media comments made "in the wild." We call our television dataset the TV Genome.
At a time of year when most people are looking to the future and enumerating their resolutions for the new year, I encourage you to take a moment and dwell on your regrets instead.
On behalf of The Huffington Post and TED, we are delighted to invite you on a year-end journey of ideas that can help shape the world in 2012. Starting today, we will be counting down 18 of 2011's most impactful TEDTalks.
While there has been a continuing push and pull between the presence of serious public art and graffiti vandalism for decades, at least one artist has taken it to the streets in a strikingly new way.
Whenever we visit a physician we fill out questionnaires that refer only to our genetics and lifestyle, but we're never asked about environment. This is the missing link to our health.