Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Writes about the future of payments. We live in a world where machines can understand speech, recognize faces, and even generate ...

Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence, which explores how to computationally simulate (or surpass) humanlike intelligence. While some AI techniques (such as expert systems) use ...

Using a bunch of carrots to train a pony and rider. (Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the Turing Award for ...