Lightfield, a customer relationship management platform built entirely around artificial intelligence, officially launched to the public this week after a year of quiet development — a bold pivot by a startup that once had 20 million users and $43 million in the bank building something completely different. The San Francisco-based company is positioning itself as a fundamental reimagining of how …

In several interviews (like this one with Anderson Cooper), Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel Prize-winning “godfather of AI,” has defended the view that we must give maternal feelings to artificial intelligence (AI), to keep it safe. Can we really develop a maternal AI? In a recent post, Paul Thagard has pointed out that this proposal is implausible because AI lacks the …

🔥 Trending now in : Major disruption to Glasgow trains after electric wires damaged ScotRail said no passengers were on the train when electric wires were damaged near Glasgow Central’s high level platforms. Services via Glasgow Central low-level are not affected. Phil Campbell, ScotRail’s customer operations director, said: “We’re sorry to customers who have experienced disruption to their journey today …