Machine Learning

A multi-institutional research team used the power of open-access databases to predict the conservation status of more than 150,000 plants.

• By Sue Palminteri

Patrick Ball has advised nine truth commissions, four U.N. missions, and dozens of advocacy groups in more than 30 countries. And his non-profit, the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, "represents, without a doubt, the world's top people doing statistical work on human rights violations."

• By Katia Savchuk

Research shows that machine learning can improve the way we place refugees in the United States.

• By Kevin Charles Fleming

It sounds like the plot of science-fiction movie, but academics have long debated the possibility of conscious artificial intelligence.

• By Subhash Kak

We can learn more about our own internal decision-making processes through the language of mathematical algorithms used by AI machines.

• By Daniel Bear

Researchers at Facebook just showed the Turing Test isn't all it's cracked up to be.

• By Jack Denton

• By Pacific Standard Staff

• By Pacific Standard Staff