But here’s the twist: Other neural networks reliably classify the system’s wildly imaginative drawing as a fan, too. It’s almost like the system is autonomously creating its own visual language.

The result is a new kind of supercomputer — a collection of up to 100,000 chips wired together in buildings known as data centers to hammer away at making powerful A.I. systems. A drawing of the ...

Could the future of online shopping be as simple as sketching out what you’re looking for and letting a computer figure out the rest? That’s the working theory of two researchers at Queen Mary ...