Artificial Intelligence News Issue 55

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This is where the real action in artificial intelligence takes place SAN FRANCISCO -- Swarms of journalists lined the halls of a Southern California oceanfront resort recently to see tech luminaries like Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk discuss the Gawker case, rocket launches to space, and, Silicon Valley's obsession du jour, artificial intelligence.

Research showing why hierarchy exists will aid the development of artificial intelligence New research explains why so many biological networks, including the human brain (a network of neurons), exhibit a hierarchical structure, and will improve attempts to create artificial intelligence. The study, published in PLOS Computational Biology, demonstrates this by showing that the evolution of hierarchy - a simple system of ranking - in biological networks may arise because of the costs associated with network connections.

Compassion, Artificial Intelligence And The Uncanny Valley | AdExchanger "Data-Driven Thinking" is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today's column is written by Alastair Boyle, global client partner and head of strategy at Essence. Although artificial intelligence (AI) can help advertisers be more compassionate, it isn't without potential pitfalls.

Artificial intelligence is not exactly the old wine in new bottle Home | News | New Products | India Specific | Design Guide | Sourcing database | Student Section | About us | Contact us | What's New News Date: 12/06/2016 Artificial intelligence is not exactly the old wine in new bottle Artificial intelligence (AI) is not a new subject, it was a serious subject of research and study since modern computers have taken birth.

Artificial Intelligence (AI): AI and Machine Learning Target both Business and Government By Dick Weisinger "AI is the most important technology that anybody on the planet is working on today. I would argue that it will even change how we perceive what it means to be human," said Dave Coplin, chief envisioning officer at Microsoft UK.

What's Next for Artificial Intelligence HOW DO YOU TEACH A MACHINE? The traditional definition of artificial intelligence is the ability of machines to execute tasks and solve problems in ways normally attributed to humans. Some tasks that we consider simple-recognizing an object in a photo, driving a car-are incredibly complex for AI.

Artificial Intelligence Chair At Singularity University On How AI Will Augment Human Capability Singularity University is part business incubator and part think tank founded by Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil in 2008 in the NASA Research Park in Silicon Valley. Among the topics that have risen in prominence in the curriculum of the University is artificial intelligence. Neil Jacobstein is a former President of [...]

MIT's artificial intelligence passes key Turing test | ZDNet An MIT algorithm has managed to produce sounds able to fool human listeners and beat Turing's sound test for artificial intelligence. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are using Alan Turing's tests, developed in the 1950's, as a benchmark to see if humans can create machines with a high enough level of artificial intelligence which is "indistinguishable" from humans.

Artificial Intelligence Is Helping The Blind To Recognize Objects Can artificial intelligence help visually impaired people recognize objects around them and improve their quality of life? That's the promise of two new apps. EyeSense, an iPad app developed in Egypt, has the ability to "learn" objects in its environment, having been trained by its users.

Seeking: Computer Programmers for the Future Millions of people in the workplace are going to be replaced by computers in the next decade. This means that reorganizing the human workforce in the face of this change will be essential. The World Economic Forum recently issued a report on the future of jobs that declares an "urgency for adaptive action today."

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 54

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How Artificial Intelligence Has Crept Into Our Everyday Lives Artificial intelligence has crept into our everyday lives, even though we're not always aware of it. Here are some examples of AI's many applications. Journalists might not care for this, but AI programs are becoming smart enough to compile bits of information and turn them into articles.

Enhancing Manufacturing Operations With Artificial Intelligence What's critical to understand about the potential impact machine learning can have on a manufacturing business lies in the way data is studied. The use of artificial intelligence that relies on natural language understanding is vital for achieving the potential outcomes mentioned above - otherwise, market intelligence would be based purely on statistical patterns and not contextual meaning.

AI is Coming, Prompting New IT Security Concerns Intelligent, often autonomous, systems are making headway in the datacenter as developers seek to offload manual processes and move beyond traditional approaches like prescriptive IT automation as they struggle to keep up.

Artificial intelligence on the agenda at Apple's annual conference - BelfastTelegraph.co.uk Apple will use its annual conference to announce plans to take on Google and Facebook in the fast-growing artificial intelligence arena, experts believe. The technology giant will also reveal a new version of its iOS software that powers the iPhone and iPad, as well as updating its MacBook laptop line, at its WWDC (worldwide developers conference) event.

'Sunspring' movie: An intense and thought-provoking film written by artificial intelligence "Sunspring," a movie that has been entirely written by algorithm, debuted on the website Ars Technica recently. The movie has been under the spotlight as the complete story of it has been written by artificial intelligence instead of normal human screenwriters.

Biological networks can boost artificial intelligence For robots; the bigger question where is the bigger ROI? Robots trying to be built to out do people; or is it better to enhance people? DARPA is more focused on enhancing people such as soldiers; and I agree with DARPA.

Nick Bostrom: 'We are like small children playing with a bomb' You'll find the Future of Humanity Institute down a medieval backstreet in the centre of Oxford. It is beside St Ebbe's church, which has stood on this site since 1005, and above a Pure Gym, which opened in April. The institute, a research faculty of Oxford University, was established a decade ago to ask the very biggest questions on our behalf.

New Cure For Cancer Found? Artificial Intelligence-Developed Drug Reverses 'Warburg Effect' During the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) conference, an early trial data was presented showing a drug with promising effects in cancer treatments. The new cancer drug was developed through the use artificial intelligence.

The artificial intelligence revolution in legal services - Tech City News Rebecca Hawkes, head of marketing at RAVN Systems, discusses why artificial intelligence is showing promise in the legal sector. There's been a considerable amount of media hype around artificial intelligence recently, but this isn't just the latest buzzword. It has now become a practical reality, with the legal industry paving the way in innovation.

Air Force Developing Artificial Intelligence-Driven Contracting Officer - Defense Daily Network The Air Force by the end of 2016 will have a beta version of a website that serves as an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven contracting officer, according to a key official.Air Force Assistant Secretary for Acquisitions Camron Gorguinpour said Friday the project,...

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 53

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"It's Going to Kill Us!" and Other Myths About the Future of Artificial Intelligence When it comes to artificial intelligence, myths are spreading faster than the technology itself is advancing. Left unchecked, these myths could inspire fears that undermine the technology's progress, which would be to the detriment of economic growth and social progress.

Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Truth - Here and Now. Artificial intelligence ... Two words which together conjure up so much wonder and awe in the imagination of programmers, sci-fi fans and perhaps just about anyone with an interest in the fate of the world!

VOX CEPR's Policy Portal Since the second half of the 1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the US due to the Information Technology (IT) Revolution. However, the productivity effects of traditional types of IT were exhausted by mid-2000 (e.g. Fernald 2015).

Artificial Intelligence Takes A Front Seat In Online Education Students at Georgia Tech were part of a recent social experiment, but they just didn't realize it at the time. Computing Professor Ashok Goel teaches an

Artificial intelligence, Robots and Financial Services - Innomag.no AI is entering Financial Services by automating processes, identifying patterns by crunching Big Data, and interacting with humans through voice. What areas of Financial Services will NOT be affected, and how will consumers buy banking and insurance services in the future?

Artificial Narrow Intelligence The term "artificial intelligence" often evokes images from science fiction movies. However, AI technology isn't fiction: it's real, and it's gaining wider usage. Three types of AI are widely recognized in the technological community: narrow, general, and super. Artificial narrow intelligence (ANI) refers to a computer's ability to perform a single task extremely well, such as crawling a webpage or playing chess.

Obama adviser suggests artificial intelligence might do a better job running the criminal justice system Those artificial intelligence programs being created by Google and other brain trusts are getting more clever by the day. When they're not beating game masters in a Go tournament they're composing new, original music. But leave it to the government to try to make the best use of new technology.

Enabling Effective Decision Making with Artificial Intelligence and Semantics - DATAVERSITY by Angela Guess Luca Scagliarini recently wrote in ITProPortal, "Speed and scale were once the most important features of computing power but the so-called 'information era' has radically changed the business drivers of any organisation, putting data at the centre of their strategies. Today, intelligent systems making sense of information enable the most effective data-driven ...

Artificial Intelligence 'outsmarts cancer' - BBC News Early trial data shows a drug developed using artificial intelligence can slow the growth of cancer in clinical trials. The data, presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference, showed some tumours shrank by around a quarter. The compound will now be taken into more advanced trials.

Wall Street looks to AI for better hires Clinching a job on Wall Street may soon have as much to do with beating an algorithm as nailing an interview. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and UBS Group are exploring the use of artificial intelligence software to judge applicants on traits − such as teamwork, curiosity and grit − that help in the workplace but don't always show up on a resume or come through in an interview.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 52

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Artificial intelligence to disrupt wealth management business: PwC Wealth management firms, among the least tech-literate sectors of the financial services industry, might become obsolete with high net-worth individuals (HNIs) increasingly adopting digital technologies that provide algorithm-based portfolio management advice. A new report by PricewaterhouseCoopers that surveyed 1,000 HNIs in Europe, North America and Asia, found only 25 per cent of wealth management firms globally offering digital channels beyond emails.

McCann Japan creates first ad made by artificial intelligence in man V machine idea for Clorets - Mumbrella Asia The Tokyo office of McCann has created what it is claiming to be the first ad to be made by artificial intelligence. An ad for mint candy brand Clorets Mint Tab has been creative directed by AI-CD ß, which became the first machine member of McCann Japan's creative department at the beginning of April.

JennyBlake.me "If we have been living in rigid ice, this is liquid-a new phase state. We are marching inexorably toward connecting all humans and all machines into a global matrix. This matrix is not an artifact, but a process. Our new supernetwork is a standing wave of change . . .

Artificial Intelligence Promises to Lighten Our Boring Workloads From the Spinning Jenny, a mechanical weaver that increased worker's output and contributed to the industrial revolution, to the CMS tools replacing archive managers in the early 21st century, technology has replaced difficult and time-consuming labor. But these changes often provoke fear that the new technology will replace jobs.

Slack's artificial intelligence will tell you what you need to know Now mainly for messaging, Slack will soon be smart enough to talk back.

Artificial Intelligence Designs Ultimate Road Trip Loyal readers will recall that last spring we conspired with artificial intelligence expert Randal Olsen to develop the ultimate U.S. road trip. The map Olson came up with -- he did all the work, really -- optimized the best way to drive by car to 50 major U.S.

Google's artificial intelligence could transform the way we make music Google has launched a project to use artificial intelligence to create compelling art and music, offering a reminder of how technology is rapidly changing what it means to be a musician, and what makes us distinctly human. Google's Project Magenta, announced this month, aims to push the state of the art in machine intelligence that's used to generate music and art.

Livestream conference: Artificial Intelligence for Social Good | Robohub Livestream conference: Artificial Intelligence for Social Good The White House announced a series of public workshops on artificial intelligence (AI) and the creation of an interagency working group to learn more about the benefits and risks of artificial intelligence. The second workshop Artificial Intelligence for Social Good will take place on June 7 at The Willard Intercontinental Hotel, in Washington D.C.

'Check' Artificial Intelligence: World's First AI Medic To Undergo Testing The world's first artificial intelligence doctor will be tested against a real doctor and nurse and what could be a landmark in the field of medicine.

Artificial intelligence could turn poachers into prey Poachers hunt tigers with traps and guns. In the near future, wildlife rangers might up their game by hunting poachers with artificial intelligence. That high-tech tool is in development thanks to USC computer scientist Milind Tambe, the Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professor in Engineering at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 51

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eBay Chooses Artificial Intelligence over Common Sense? We've noticed a lot of talk about Artificial Intelligence (AI) among online marketplaces, including eBay (eBay CEO Devin Wenig said AI technology will render the search box redundant), Alibaba (invested in Twiggle), and Amazon (CEO Jeff Bezos said we're at the beginning of a golden age of AI).

Facebook's Artificial Intelligence Understands You - Tribble Agency According to Facebook's detailed post published on Wednesday, June 1, DeepText is a deep-learning artificial intelligence system that is able to understand the content of several thousand posts per second. The system will also be able to filter out malicious, hateful, or hurtful speech on the social network, along with photos that contravene Facebook's policies.

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT) Aims For Future Growth Through AI And Conservational Bots Published By: Eunice Gettys on June 5, 2016 08:37 am EST Microsoft Corporation ( NASDAQ:MSFT) announced back in March that Windows 10 had exceeded 300 million active users, calculating from when the operating system was launched in mid-2015, making it the company's most successful operating system ever.

This Week In Small Business Tech: Now You Can Be Like Amazon! Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?

The difference between Facebook and Twitter is perfectly summed up 1 line in a job listing Facebook and Twitter were born only two years apart. But the two social networks have had very different lives. Facebook now has more than 1.6 billion monthly users, and continues to grow. Whereas Twitter's growth has topped out at roughly 300 million users.

This Question of Morality Perfectly Illustrates the Problem with A.I. There is a moral robotics question and scenario that must be answered in order for artificial intelligence to advance. Imagine there's a robot in control of a mine shaft and it realizes there is a cart filled with four human miners hurdling down the tracks out of control.

Why artificial intelligence probably isn't Amazon's next coup Amazon's Jeff Bezos has talked big game when it comes to artificial intelligence. That said, it's shipping, business supplies and groceries that are likely to be Amazon's next big business, one technology analyst told CNBC's " Squawk Alley" recently. Amazon is known for its core products: Prime, Marketplace and Amazon Web Services.

Vi is an artificial intelligence personal trainer in your ears A personal trainer makes it harder to slack off and avoid your workouts, but how many of us actually have the time and money to use one? Well here's one you can wear. Vi looks just like a pair of headphones, but it contains a personal trainer that uses artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence Coin Looks to the Future A new series is being launched by the Mint of Poland on behalf of Niue called "Code of the Future," which deals with cutting-edge advancements in science and technology of recent years and decades such as virtual reality, augmented reality, artificial intelligence, and robotics, among others.

Artificial intelligence: The next frontier While the world has been fixated on following the soap opera of financial markets, a more profound and ubiquitous development has been taking place worldwide - the rapid development in artificial intelligence and the fourth industrial revolution, which we think will mark an endless wave of disruptions.. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 50

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Tech company heads weigh in on the advent of artificial intelligence - Tech2 At Recode's Code conference this year, it was all about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Leading executives from major tech companies all predicted how disruptive self-aware computers would become in the short term future. Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla said humans need to put in neural laces , or USB cables into human brains to keep up with artificial intelligence.

The future of (artificial) intelligence Stuart Russell argues for a fundamental reorientation of the field artificial intelligence.

The Odyssey of Mind: the Natural Foundation of Artificial Intelligence Colorhythm, a digital imaging services and software company, is renting our meeting room and has cordially invited Mechanics' Institute members to attend their presentation. Explore the naturalistic foundations of artificial intelligence (AI) in a live conversation with Dr. Eray Özkural, AI theorist and inventor who is working on the path to develop and verify human-level general purpose AI by the year 2018.

Google's Next Artificial Intelligence Experiment: Creating a Machine with an Artistic Brain (MOUNTAINVIEW, Calif.) - Can an artificially intelligent machine be artistic? Google thinks so. Magenta, a project from the Google Brain team, released its first computer-generated song, which was composed without any human assistance. While the melody sounds a lot like those old keyboards that came with pre-programmed beats, the first outing is impressive when taking into consideration Magenta is self-taught.

Artificial Intelligence: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Risks? We're still a long way away from Iron Man's digital butler J.A.R.V.I.S., but Facebook, Google and other tech giants are racing to create products that incorporate artificial intelligence and can better "understand" the nuances of human speech, emotion and culture.

Artificial intelligence is changing SEO faster than you think By now everyone has heard of Google's RankBrain, the new artificial intelligence machine learning algorithm that is supposed to be the latest and greatest from Mountain View, Calif. What many of you might not realize, however, is just how fast the SEO industry is changing because of it.

Warner Bros. DMCAs Insanely Awesome Recreation Of Blade Runner By Artificial Intelligence | Techdirt I'm going to dispense with any introduction here, because the meat of this story is amazing and interesting in many different ways, so we'll jump right in. Blade Runner, the film based off of Philip K. Dick's classic novel, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, is a film classic in every last sense of the word.

Artificial Intelligence through the eyes of a robot Hello. My name is Theia and I am the world's first artificial intelligence module to be used by the masses. I was born in 2031 in a research lab and began to be mass produced just five years later. I'm about the size of a penny and you can connect me to a motherboard in any computer.

Everything you think you know about AI is wrong Robots are coming for our jobs. Terminators will soon murder us all. There is no escape. Resistance is futile. These doom-laden predictions probably sound familiar to anyone who's read or seen any movies lately involving artificial intelligence. Sometimes they're invoked with genuine alarm, as in the case of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking warning against the danger of killer automatons.

World's 1st robot medic to be pitted against real thing in landmark experiment (London Daily Mail) The world's first 'artificial intelligence' doctor will be pitted against the real thing this week, in a head-to-head contest that could mark a turning point in medicine. British start-up firm Babylon Health will test its programme, called Check, against a doctor and nurse in a competition to see which can deal most [...]

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 49

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Artificial intelligence brings new life to old photos | Science! | Geek.com A team out of Waseda University in Japan has unveiled some pretty cool images from the first half of the 20th century, given new depth with full colorization thanks to an artificial intelligence.

Bill Gates talks about why artificial intelligence is nearly here and how to solve two big problems it creates The real challenge is ensuring humans stay in control.

Tech Giants Bet Big on Artificial Intelligence | Fox Business As far back as I can remember, artificial intelligence (AI) was always going to be the next big thing to revolutionize the way we live and work. Funny thing is, that's still true. And yet, at this week's Code Conference, AI was the hot subject for CEOs of Amazon, Google and IBM.

Supply Chains and Artificial Intelligence: Ask Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos spoke this week at Recode's Code Conference in California about the "gigantic" potential of artificial intelligence. Pressed by moderator Walt Mossberg to speculate on where this technology is headed and what it means, Bezos went so far as to say that we may be on the "edge of [...]

Artificial intelligence accelerator opens in Mountain View A business incubator from Beijing will open an accelerator in Mountain View on Thursday for artificial intelligence startups. TechCode will select startups with existing AI prototypes to spend six months in the program, including two weeks in China meeting potential investing, manufacturing and distribution partners.

Meet Zenbo, the Asus robot that costs no more than a smartphone The Taiwanese electronics manufacture Asus has unveiled a home robot called Zenbo that can talk, control your home and provide assistance when needed - all for the cost of a top-end smartphone. The $599 (£410) robot rolls around on two wheels in the shape of a vacuum cleaner ball with cameras an oblong head extruding from the top with a colour touchscreen displaying a face with emotions.

Will Artificial Intelligence Be The Next Battlefield Between Facebook And Google? Recently, Facebook introduced "Deep Text" a text understanding engine that can understand with near human accuracy the textual context of several thousand posts per second, spanning more than 20 languages. The company plans to use this technology to improve user experience on its platform in several ways. Some examples include, [...]

Tech moguls declare era of artificial intelligence RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. Artificial intelligence and machine learning will create computers so sophisticated and godlike that humans will need to implant "neural laces" in their brains to keep up, Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told a crowd of tech leaders this week.

New Artificial Intelligence Can Tell Stories Based on Photos Artificial intelligence may one day embrace the meaning of the expression "A picture is worth a thousand words," as scientists are now teaching programs to describe images as humans would. Someday, computers may even be able to explain what is happening in videos just as people can, the researchers said in a new study.

Artificial intelligence has helped detect secret code words used by inmates on prison phone calls A US prison was recently able to detect and prevent inmates from carrying out illegal business by using artificial intelligence to analyse calls made into and out of the prison for unusual patterns.