Artificial Intelligence News Issue 9

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"Artificial Intelligence will be crucial for e-commerce" Most attractive apps of 2015. Jorge J. Rodríguez & Pablo Gutiérrez, founders of Converfit. Converfit. The app that has seduced Google and Microsoft Pablo Gutiérrez Alfaro. Converfit CEO. Converfit, a web analytics app developed by the Spanish startup Citious, has already enticed Google and Microsoft.

Will Artificial Intelligence Make a Smarter Digital Enterprise? Imagine a world where intelligent machines and humans work harmoniously together-where the whole of our work is greater than the sum of its parts. As you walk through today's manufacturing facilities, there is a clear segregation between robots and humans as industrial automation lives in cages or on separate lines away from their human worker counterparts.

Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Judea Pearl Wins Carnegie Mellon's Dickson Prize in Science BY Byron Spice - Carnegie Mellon University has awarded its 2015 Dickson Prize in Science to Judea Pearl, a computer scientist at UCLA who is internationally known for his contributions to artificial intelligence, human reasoning, causality and the philosophy of science.

Yes, Artificial Intelligence can be Profitable, Says Artificial Intelligence Startup You can say this for Diffbot: It's not shying away from a big challenge. The San Francisco startup, which just closed $10 million in Series A investment, wants to scrape all the data on the web ( all of it) to put it into a structured format, which thus makes it useful for all sorts of business purposes.

Autonomous Rescue Drones Navigate Forest Trails Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithm | CrazyEngineers A team of Swiss researchers have succeeded in teaching a drone how to spot and follow trails in forests. The quadcopter used by the team is equipped...

What I Learned Teaching a Course on Artificial Intelligence (and You Can, Too) I recently finished teaching a free, eight-week online course on artificial intelligence and cognitive technologies. Over 7,000 students registered for the course. Many of them were active participants in rich discussions throughout the eight weeks.

Would you MARRY a robot? Computer scientist says humans will form close relationships with robots Cloud computing could allow machines to become far more life-like Robots could become the 'perfect companion' for many people Experts predict people could even go to court in a bid to marry their robots While there are fears robots may rise up to take over the world if artificial intelligence progresses too quickly, some of us may find ourselves simply marrying machines in the future.

Diffbot Aims To Build The Intel Of Data For Artificial Intelligence With a new $10 million commitment led by Tencent, one of China's largest Internet companies, Diffbot chief executive Mike Tung has come a long way from his days of eating beans and rice in the dark and solving the math problems that would form the core of his groundbreaking artificial intelligence software.

How the Rest of Tech Is Playing Catch-Up to Facebook and Google in Artificial Intelligence Omelchenko / Shutterstock Facebook and Google are two of Silicon Valley's leaders in artificial intelligence. They have both invested heavily in AI, hiring loads of top researchers to develop projects like the Facebook Messenger "smart" assistant M, or Google's in-the-works AI-powered chatbot.

You Can't Invest in Artificial Intelligence Yet If you aren't up to speed on artificial intelligence (AI) yet, start here for a simple explanation of the technology. AI is immensely powerful and consequently it is a controversial topic. Steven Hawking has warned that AI "could spell the end of the human race".