Artificial Intelligence News Issue 2

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Artificial intelligence pioneer Marvin Minsky dies at 88

Marvin Minsky, the computer scientist who helped blaze the trail for virtual smartphone assistants and other manifestations of artificial intelligence, died of a cerebral hemorrhage on Sunday at the age of 88. Word of Minsky's passing came today from his family as well as from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Minsky has worked on the foundations of AI since the 1950s.

Gaze Inside The Mind Of Artificial Intelligence With This Neural Network Visualizer

Even aside from the fear that evil A.I.s will take over the world, the field of artificial intelligence can be daunting to outsiders. Facebook's director of artificial intelligence, Yann LeCun, uses the analogy that A.I. is a black box with a million knobs; the inner workings are a mystery to most.

Artificial Intelligence: Gods, egos and Ex Machina

It's taken me a year and a several viewings to collect my thoughts about Ex Machina. Superficially it looks like a film about the future of artificial intelligence, but like most science fiction, it tells us more about the present than the future; and like most discussion around AI, it ends up reflecting not technological progress so much as human egos.

To Start an Artificial Intelligence Strategy, Follow the Data

Cognitive computing. Machine intelligence. Smart machines. These are just a few of the dozens of phrases that were created as part of rebranding efforts to cut down on the fear and hesitation that artificial intelligence (AI) has inspired in the past.

DreamFire launches Real Estate CRM equipped with Artificial Intelligence.

First comprehensive real estate platform for real estate brokers who require a privately labelled and highly customizable solution with total control on their data. New York, NY (PRWEB) January 26, 2016 DreamFire, a REBNY approved IDX vendor, launched a state of the art CRM platform branded as '3cane.com' for real estate brokers and agents in New York City.

Harvard Receives $28 Million to Build Artificial Intelligence As Strong Than the Human Brain - Social Media Week

This article was originally published on Wired UK 25 days until 20,000+ global leaders come together for SMW February 22-26. Learn more here . Harvard University has been awarded $28 million (£19m) to investigate why brains are so much better at learning and retaining information than artificial intelligence.

Robot uses artificial intelligence to make portraits

CBS Correspondent Weijia Jiang interviews Pindar Van Arman, who has spent the past decade developing a robot that can make artwork.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 1

Welcome to the Momenta Learning News on Artificial Intelligence. This is issue 1, please feel free to share this post.

How the artificial intelligence revolution was born in a Vancouver hotel

Mel Silverman walked over to a whiteboard and picked up a marker, listing all the academic disciplines that the band of renegade scientists asking him for money represented.

Using artificial intelligence and evolution to take gaming to the next level

You have a new video game and have spent weeks trying to defend yourself against your arch enemy. You finally found his weakness and how to stop him, and are joyfully exacting revenge. But one day you play and that game plan doesn't work anymore. So what happened?

Artificial intelligence makes its mark at Davos

Artificial intelligence was a key topic during the 2016 World Economic Forum in Davos, highlighting the growing acceptance of autonomous driving. By Freddie Holmes The 2016 World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland brought together figures from various industries to discuss the societal impact of global megatrends.

How 'artificial swarm intelligence' uses people to make better predictions than experts - TechRepublic

Since the 1950's, when researchers began searching for ways to create artificial intelligence, much focus has been on developing artificial neural networks-building intelligence from scratch. Turning this concept on its head, an approach dubbed "artificial swarm intelligence" uses the power of nature in a different way: by harnessing groups of human minds to come up with predictions for real world events.

Canada's Top Artificial Intelligence Talent Being Lured to Silicon Valley

Canada has established itself as a significant player in the artificial intelligence space, but that could soon change unless it can keep the best talent within Canadian borders. Despite boasting a tech industry just one third the size of California's, Canada has managed to emerge as a leader in artificial intelligence technology.

PayPal Practices Defense with Deep Learning | MIT Technology Review

To PayPal, the transactions signal fraud: a U.S. user's account is accessed in the U.K., China, and elsewhere around the world. But PayPal's security system-thanks to a growing reliance on an artificial-­intelligence technology known as deep learning-is now able to spot possible fraud without making mistakes.