Photo Lee Se-dol, one of the world’s top players of Go. lost a second match against Google’s artificial intelligence program, AlphaGo, on Thursday in Seoul, South Korea. Credit Lee Jin-Man/Associated Press Each Saturday, Farhad Manjoo and Mike Isaac, technology reporters ...

Photo Coverage of the Go master Lee Se-dol’s loss to Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo in the first match of the best-of-five series in Seoul, South Korea, on Wednesday. Credit Yonhap News Agency, via European Pressphoto Agency SEOUL, South Korea — A ...

Photo As machine learning and the use of artificial intelligence spread, technologists are running into questions over when A.I. can get too real — and too creepy. One area where that is increasingly cropping up is in speech that is ...

Photo Michael Picheny, a senior manager at the Watson Multimodal Lab for IBM Research. Credit Cole Wilson for The New York Times When computers speak, how human should they sound? This was a question that a team of six IBM ...

Photo Google’s self-driving car on the road in California. Credit Gordon De Los Santos/Google SAN FRANCISCO — It appears that Google has persuaded federal regulators that — in some situations at least — the Tin Man has a heart. In ...

WASHINGTON — President Obama will call for spending $ 4 billion to help states pay for computer science education in the schools when he presents his 2017 budget to Congress, administration officials say. If approved by the Republican-led Congress, the ...