Machine learning, for all its benevolent potential to detect cancers and create collision-proof self-driving cars, also threatens to upend our notions of what's visible and hidden. It can, for ...

The Recentive decision exemplifies the Federal Circuit’s skepticism toward claims that dress up longstanding business problems in machine-learning garb, while the USPTO’s examples confirm that ...

To human observers, the following two images are identical. But researchers at Google showed in 2015 that a popular object detection algorithm classified the left image as “panda” and the right one as ...

This simple spreadsheet of machine learning foibles may not look like much but it’s a fascinating exploration of how machines “think.” The list, compiled by researcher Victoria Krakovna, describes ...

Let’s be honest: the term “machine learning” has been bastardized in recent years as some companies try to use it interchangeably with artificial intelligence, or even just to describe a souped-up ...

A 49-year-old patient notices a painless rash on his shoulder but does not seek care. Months later, his wife asks him to see a doctor, who diagnoses a seborrheic keratosis. Later, when the patient ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a foundational technology across countless industries, but the question of when machine-learning (ML) inventions are patent-eligible remains a nebulous target.