Best of the web: Artificial Intelligence news for December 9, 2016

There's been some stunning progress in artificial intelligence of late, but it's been surprisingly flat. Tagged In United States Dollar Natural Language Processing Speech Recognition Interactive Voice Response Optical Character Recognition Unity has hired Uber's former head of machine learning, Dr. Danny Lange, to take on the problems of augmented reality and virtual reality gaming AI. Unity's explosive growth is allowing it to focus on making its engine more friendly and capable when it comes to AR/VR gameplay and Dr. Lange will help develop machine learning and AI algorithms needed for computer-controlled enemies and allies in a truly three-dimensional setting. There's been some stunning progress in artificial intelligence of late, but it's been surprisingly flat. Unity has hired Uber's former head of machine learning, Dr. Danny Lange, to take on the problems of augmented reality and virtual reality gaming AI.