Today, artificial intelligence helps doctors diagnose patients, pilots fly commercial aircraft, and city planners predict traffic. These AIs are often self-taught, working off a simple set of instructions to create a unique array of rules and strategies. So how exactly does a machine learn? Briana Brownell digs into the three basic ways machines...

As we explore the boundaries of Artificial Intelligence, what can we learn about our own human intelligence as we teach machines to think like us? Starting with an object from the beginning of human history, Briana Brownell delves into the the way we humans see certain objects in the world, and how this translates to the way AI can see the same ...