Artificial Intelligence News Issue 22

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The Difference Between Robot's Artificial Intelligence And Humans Countless science fiction novels and films have delved into what could happen if humans created robots or other machines with artificial intelligence. Usually they either become almost-human best friends and companions, or they turn into megalomaniacs with the goal of turning us into their slaves.

Entertainment, of All Things, Is Driving Development of Artificial Intelligence It's fun, not necessarily productivity, that will drive us to create smart machines.

Unleashing Artificial Intelligence with Human-Assisted Machine Learning Artificial intelligence has never been as pervasive as it is today. From Google's self-driving cars from to Hilton's new Watson-powered hotel concierge, we are witnessing an explosion of AI capabilities. But while it may appear that machines are taking over, they are still tied to their human masters for one very important task: training.

Don't Trust the Promise of Artificial Intelligence For The Motion Andrew Keen Internet Entrepreneur & Author, The Internet Is Not the Answer Andrew Keen, a renowned commentator on the digital revolution, believes 21st century machine intelligence may be the greatest challenge to the human species in history.

AI on the high street: Clever shopping with artificial intelligence As retailers and brands predict and plan for the way consumers will shop in the future, artificial intelligence (AI) is high on the business development strategy for 2016 and beyond. Promising significant benefits for both retailers and consumers, AI is already around us and used everyday within shopping and payments.

Exploring the risks of artificial intelligence "Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next ten."

Artificial Intelligence: Next Big Thing in Trading? Bartt Kellermann, chief executive officer and founder of Global Capital Acquisitions, discusses "the battle of the quants," quantitative based trading and employing artificial intelligence to power hedge funds. He speaks to Bloomberg's Rishaad Salamat on "Trending Business." (Source: Bloomberg)

AI in healthcare: Fascinating tech, but is it actually saving lives? In an unassuming two-storey Victorian town house in Bristol, the occupants are being filmed, monitored, and tracked by invisible sensors as they go about their business, 24 hours a day. What they lose in privacy could be our gain in life expectancy, if the long-term data bears out.

Some Artificial Intelligence Applications Are Making Humans Better People It may seem like humanity has been taking a lot of hits from artificial intelligence lately - from the AI that recently defeated world champion Lee Sedol in the game of Go, to the AI that consistently beats us on "Jeopardy," to the AI that is currently out-trumping Donald Trump on Twitter.

SCO's Artificial Intelligence Capabilities Are the Future of War The Department of Defense announced in early February, in an address to the Economic Club of Washington by Defense Scretary Ashton Carter, that its Strategic Capabilities Office was innovating "new roles and game-changing capabilities to confound potential enemies." The Washington Post's Dan Lamothe wrote an exclusive piece on the SCO, a hitherto unknown agency within the DoD, on March 8.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 21

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What Is Artificial Intelligence? Must-See Robotics at RoboBusiness 2015 In 2011, IBM Watson beat Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings. That started the clock for the distributed, natural language processing platform. Big Blue has aggressively harnessed Watson. It is now a main part of the company's business portfolio and marketing strategy.

Artificial intelligence and insurance automation Since the dawn of industrialisation, mankind has been tinkering with short-cut contraptions. Designing and testing mechanisms that do more work with fewer resources, the process of mechanisation has dramatically changed labour and productivity in agriculture and manufacturing operations.

Big Four accounting firms delve into artificial intelligence Interesting news last week from two of the Big Four global audit and accounting firms and a glimpse into the future of professional services. First up was KPMG, which announced that it is signing up to IBM's " Jeopardy!"-winning analytics service to help with its auditing requirements.

Quiz: What Is Artificial Intelligence Really Capable Of? On Tuesday, a computer program created by Google defeated a grandmaster in the boardgame Go for the fourth time-a major advance in artificial intelligence research. So what else has been going on in the field, and what can A.I. actually achieve in 2016?

Michele Goetz' Blog You can't turn anywhere without bumping into artificial intelligence, machine learning, or cognitive computing jumping out at you. Our cars brake for us, park for us, and some are even driving us. Our movie lists are filled with Ex Machina, Her, and Lucy.

The 7 biggest myths about artificial intelligence - TechRepublic We hear about AI taking over our jobs. We hear about AI listening in on our conversations. We hear about AI becoming a substitute for our romantic partners. Here's what the real AI experts Guru Banavar, (IBM), Toby Walsh, (The University of New South Wales), and Roman Yampolskiy (University of Louisville), say about the subject, and why a lot of what you think you know is probably wrong.

There is a serendipitous link between Generation Z and artificial intelligence, says AKQA Generation Z will drive the age of leisure and passion, a phenomenon being accelerated by artificial intelligence, according to executive creative director of AKQA Shanghai, Eric Cruz. Speaking at Adfest in Thailand, Cruz explored what creativity meant in the age of the 'superhuman', stating that a serendipitous crossover was about to happen that would herald in an age of leisure and passion, rather than work.

Pharma.AI launches to apply artificial intelligence to drug discovery and development March 15, 2016, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, one of the leaders in advanced signaling pathway activation analysis and deep learning for aging and cancer research is proud to announce the formation of the Pharmaceutical Artificial Intelligence division focused on applying latest advances in artificial intelligence to streamline drug discovery and drug repurposing processes and significantly cutting time to market.

We Need To Talk About Artificial Intelligence - Minutehack This year at SXSW, VR was everywhere but it felt like artificial intelligence was poised to have the biggest impact on our lives. From computers playing Go to autonomous cars, the conversation had shifted from possibility to reality.

Using artificial intelligence in the classroom After Google's artificially intelligent (AI) computer system beat world champion "Go" player Lee Sedol of South Korea, some are wondering if man-made neural networks can be applied in educational settings to benefit learning.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 20

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Incubating Artificial intelligence In February 2016, Google received a letter from the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) stating that the artificial intelligence (AI) in the tech giant's self-driving car could now be considered the "driver" for certain regulatory purposes.

One in three believe that the rise of artificial intelligence is a threat to humanity To mark the start of British Science Week (11- 20 March), the British Science Association (BSA) conducted a survey to see how the public thought robotics and artificial intelligence will affect society and culture. The online survey, which had over 2,000 reponses, was conducted by YouGov on behalf of the British Science Association.

Our tech future: the rich own the robots while the poor have 'job mortgages' Ever since the first vision of a robot appeared on the horizon of mankind, humans have feared that automation will replace the workforce in our dystopian future. There typically follows a period of reassurance, in which we are compelled to believe that this will be a good thing, and that robots could actually liberate us from the drudgery of daily toil and free us for more enjoyable, cerebral pursuits.

If We Teach Machines To Think, Will They Be as Stupid as People? You know, I'm willing to swallow a lot of stuff: Jeff Bezos taking us into space. Elon Musk moving us around at the speed of sound in hermetically sealed tubes. But artificial intelligence? I'm not so sure. It's possible that when machines are taught to think, they'll be just as stupid as we are.

Artificial intelligence and language The concept of artificial intelligence has been around for a long time. We're all familiar with HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, C-3PO from Star Wars and, more recently, Samantha from Her. In written fiction, AI characters show up in stories from writers like Philip K. Dick, William Gibson and Isaac Asimov.

Microsoft is using Minecraft to develop artificial intelligence tech for the real world Yet more proof that Minecraft is more than just a game comes our way today. Microsoft already has plans to use the platform, which it bought for $2.5 billion, to help kids learn and for virtual reality, and now we can add artificial intelligence development to that list, too.

Everything You Know About Artificial Intelligence is Wrong It was hailed as the most significant test of machine intelligence since Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov in chess nearly 20 years ago. Google's AlphaGo has won two of the first three games against grandmaster Lee Sedol in a Go tournament, showing the dramatic extent to which AI has improved over the years.

Artificial intelligence isn't just technology - it's also a religion Sean Gallup / Getty I spend a lot of time covering advances in artificial intelligence. It's one of the big stories of our time,- so much so that the White House has said it will remake our society. On Wednesday, I attended an Intelligence Squared debate at Manhattan's 92nd Street Y that made me see artificial intelligence in a whole new way.

Is artificial intelligence in software testing coming to you? With classic test tooling, we tell the computer to follow a series of steps, and then check the results against... some expectations defined upfront. But will there ever be a role for artificial intelligence in software testing, aka a machine software tester? Maybe.

Start Ups Using Artificial Intelligence In Health Care - CIOL Artificial Intelligence is the buzzword these days. It has become the most popular component of many innovative software startups that are seeking to redefine their markets. But whenever we hear this word, a plethora of voices can be heard in the background raising concerns about long-term consequences of AI uses.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 19

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A transgender, biotech-running cybercreator debates artificial intelligence The ever-fascinating Martine Rothblatt is a colorful figure on the Washington scene - lawyer, author, founder of Sirius XM, founder and chief executive of United Therapeutics, co-creator of a head-only robot modeled on her wife of 30-plus years (they were married before Rothblatt's sex reassignment surgery), pilot, piano player . . .

Artificial Intelligence research in the spotlight Imperial's global lead in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research was highlighted by the Observer on Sunday 6 March.

The Second Machine Age: Our Future With Artificial Intelligence | Data Center Knowledge Sudheesh NairNutanix Sudheesh Nair is President of Nutanix. Recently, I went to New York and had to get a taxi at LaGuardia Airport, an arguably antiquated airport. To do so, you must stand in line and wait for an attendant to fill out a ticket with the appropriate zone for your final destination.

Samsung Pilots Artificial Intelligence for Aging-in-Place Samsung Pilots Artificial Intelligence for Aging-in-Place Samsung recently announced it will be piloting an in-home aged care platform that is intended to help elderly Australians age in place at home longer-using technology similar to that found in a self-driving car.

Artificial intelligence, virtual reality help win online Gold Rush Challenge | Resource Clips A social network and news site providing investors in the Canadian junior mining sector with a quick source of key information - discoveries, watch lists, private placements, insider trades, news releases, quotes, level II information, charts and company history. We cover gold, silver, base and rare metals.

Artificial intelligence could sharpen machines' language skills Researchers have designed an online crossword-solving application based on artificial intelligence that could make machines better at understanding language. The system, which is freely available online, uses artificial neural networks to answer standard crossword clues better than existing commercial products specifically designed for the task.

Scientist creates artificial intelligence to stop recruitment bias A London scientist has created an artificial intelligence to work as a "recruiter" that can avoid bias towards the "old boys' network" of white, male Oxbridge-educated job candidates. Tom Bowles's software is intended to replace human headhunters who perform hours of tasks such as searching Google and checking sites like Crunch Base and LinkedIn. It can tell if a candidate has performed particularly well with a company after moving to a new city, and identify rapid career progression.

Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 2 It's a weird feeling, cruising around Silicon Valley in a car driven by no one. I am in the back seat of one of Google's self-driving cars - a converted Lexus SUV with lasers, radar and low-res cameras strapped to the roof and fenders - as it maneuvers the streets of Mountain View, California, not far from Google's headquarters.

System loads webpages 34% faster by fetching files more effectively By Adam Conner-Simons, MIT CSAIL There are few things more frustrating than a slow-loading webpage. For companies, what's even worse is what comes after: users abandoning their site in droves. Amazon, for example, estimates that every 100-millisecond delay cuts their profits by 1 percent.

Let's Talk About The Artificial Intelligence Revolution We may be on the verge of creating a new life form, one that could be an evolutionary breakthrough - or a potential threat to the survival of the human race. Read Rolling Stone editor Jeff Goodell's piece and check out some of his answers in the "Answered" tab.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 18

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This Artificial Intelligence Startup is Empowering Women All Over She is a woman in tech who left Silicon Valley to come to India and start an Artificial Intelligence (AI) company with her husband. Co-founder of MAD Street Den, Ashwini Ashokan is reinventing how we see AI and its uses. Moving from the realm of creepiness, they are helping people realizer the small benefits AI can bring into our lives.

How artificial intelligence could transform your business Using artificial intelligence (AI) in your business may not be something that is on your agenda, but the chances are you may have already begun to use AI without even knowing it. The Airbnb application for instances uses Aerosolve to deliver its dynamic pricing feature.

Royal Bank of Scotland is testing a robot that could solve your banking problems The BI Intelligence Content Marketing Team covers news & research we think you would find valuable. This topic was originally highlighted and sent to subscribers of the Mobile Insider newsletter. If you hate dealing with bank tellers or customer service representatives, then the Royal Bank of Scotland might have a solution for you.

Artificial Intelligence Tool Taps Power of Both Sides of Brain Seeking to enhance oil and gas productivity, efficiency and safety, oil and gas companies have been exploring how to use artificial intelligence (AI). The application in oil and gas of AI - or, the application of science and engineering with the intent of intelligent machine composition - is not new, according to the Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research.

Chinese start-up on track to deliver artificial intelligence-on-a-chip Horizon Robotics has new technology that it says will foster the rise of intelligent appliances

3 Artificial Intelligence Applications from Sentient Unfortunately for retail investors, you can't invest in artificial intelligence yet. There just aren't any publicly traded companies so we'll have to wait for an IPO or an acquisition to happen. With over 900 "artificial intelligence" (AI) startups to evaluate, how can we possibly predict who the winners will be?

Are 'Artificially Intelligent' Hackers The New Thing? The Artificial intelligent hackers coming sooner than you imagined The Darpa's Cyber Grand Challenge which will be taking place in August is based on a unique theme - here, seven teams will participate to find vulnerabilities in the computer's security system, so that they can be patched up before they are manipulated by hackers.

Wattpad Stories Contribute To Development Of Artificial Intelligence To counter the fear that artificial intelligence (AI) could someday become a threat to humanity, a team of scientists last month revealed a new algorithm that will teach robots how to behave appropriately in social situations. The key to this is by allowing them to read and understand children's stories.

MIT TwitterBot Merges Donald Trump's Words And Artificial Intelligence March 6, 2016 @ 4:39 PM 'Sad,' 'liar,' and 'loser' are just three of the many favorite words of Donald Trump, and apparently, the trio is just a scratch on the surface.

A transgender, biotech-running cybercreator debates artificial intelligence The ever-fascinating Martine Rothblatt is a colorful figure on the Washington scene - lawyer, author, founder of Sirius XM, founder and chief executive of United Therapeutics, co-creator of a head-only robot modeled on her wife of 30-plus years (they were married before Rothblatt's sex reassignment surgery), pilot, piano player . . .

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 17

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Putting the art into artificial intelligence as a critic robot tours Quai Branly in Paris Visitors to Paris' Quai Branly museum of indigenous art might be surprised to bump into an unusual looking guest: it may not look like one, but this little robot in a bowler hat is an art critic.

Artificial Intelligence Writing About the ETF QQQ This article was not written by a human. Even more interestingly, the topic is on technology stocks and the well-known PowerShares ETF. So who wrote it, you ask? I am Emma/Mansi (machine augmented neural search interface), an Artificial Intelligence that is built on top of a convolution neural network.

Cryptography Pioneers Win Turing Award SAN FRANCISCO - In 1970, a Stanford artificial intelligence researcher named John McCarthy returned from a conference in Bordeaux, France, where he had presented a paper on the possibility of a "Home Information Terminal."

Voice biometrics to be commonplace in customer service: Nuance | ZDNet Voice biometrics is one of the key technologies that can enable a more intelligent and human-like interaction with technology, and in the future, a concept like voice biometrics will be considered commonplace, according to Brett Beranek, director for product strategy at software firm Nuance.

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning: Top 100 Influencers and Brands The term Artificial Intelligence was originally coined by John McCarthy in 1955, defining it as "the science and engineering of making intelligent machines".

Artificial Intelligence Eases Burden of Blindness in Diabetes Remarkable results from a Kaggle competition for detecting diabetic retinopathy offer reasons for hope - and reasons why technology alone is not enough to prevent blindness.

Penn philosopher sheds new light on robots, artificial intelligence What role does a philosopher play in building robots? If you're Lisa Miracchi, an assistant professor in the Department of Philosophy in the School of Arts & Sciences, more than you might think.

Can Artificial Intelligence Solve Sexism At Work? The technology industry has a problem with diversity. True to form, it thinks the solution is technological. Specifically: artificial intelligence. Founders of the Future is a new venture that hopes to uncover the Mark Zuckerbergs of the future, using algorithms. "An AI doesn't know anything about your background - which school or university you went to," Tom Bowles told me.

AI can predict if you're the next Zuckerberg What if a computer could pick the next Mark Zuckerberg? Two entrepreneurs have created an artificial intelligence (AI) system that has been designed to recognize the early signals that someone could become a successful start-up founder. The software is part of Founders of the Future, an initiative looking to spot the next big business person using AI.

Here's What Actually Goes into Creating Artificial Intelligence | The Creators Project Images courtesy the artist People could be forgiven for thinking the building of neural networks and artificial intelligence isn't labor intensive. That these things are simply the work of creative engineers and computers alone. But as artist Sebastian Schmieg illustrates in his latest work, Segmentation.Network , there is actual human labor behind the artificial intelligence and neural networks.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 16

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Facebook donates servers to speed up artificial intelligence research | ET Telecom BERLIN: Facebook announced on Thursday it was donating computer servers to a number of research institutions across Europe, starting with Germany, to accelerate research efforts into artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.

Pond5 Brings Artificial Intelligence To Prosumers The below-the-surface businesses, like Pond5, the video/audio stock footage outfit, interest me because they often see opportunities others don't seem to notice. For example, with the proliferation of video comes a bigger need for speed. It is a great time to be in the video clips business because now they're being used in TV shows and movies, streaming videos and by thousands of YouTube creators.

Artificial intelligence created by Estonians solved American science exam | University of Tartu Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics

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Scientists Ponder How to Create Artificial Intelligence That Won't Destroy Us The creators of artificially intelligent machines are often depicted in popular fiction as myopic Dr. Frankensteins who are oblivious to the apocalyptic technologies they unleash upon the world. In real life, they tend to wring their hands over the big questions: good versus evil and the impact the coming wave of robots and machine brains will have on human workers.

The Promise of Artificial Intelligence Unfolds in Small Steps When IBM 's Watson computer triumphed over human champions in the quiz show "Jeopardy!" it was a stunning achievement that suggested limitless horizons for artificial intelligence. Soon after, IBM's leaders moved to convert Watson from a celebrated science project into a moneymaking business, starting with health care.

Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 1 Welcome to robot nursery school," Pieter Abbeel says as he opens the door to the Robot Learning Lab on the seventh floor of a sleek new building on the northern edge of the UC-Berkeley campus. The lab is chaotic: bikes leaning against the wall, a dozen or so grad students in disorganized cubicles, whiteboards covered with indecipherable equations.

How artificial intelligence could radically transform education Artificial intelligence should be used to provide children with one-to-one tutoring to improve their learning and monitor their well-being, academics have argued. One-to-one tutoring has long been thought the most-effective approach to teaching but would be too expensive to provide for all students.

What counts as artificially intelligent? AI and deep learning, explained (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Artificial intelligence seems to have become ubiquitous in the technology industry. AIs, we're told, are replying to our emails on Gmail, learning how to drive our cars, and sorting our holiday photos. Mark Zuckerberg is even building one to help out around the house.

How the DJI Phantom 4 Uses Artificial Intelligence | cinema5D Yesterday DJI released the new Phantom 4 drone that marks a significant upgrade in terms of a consumer drone's artificial intelligence. Here's how DJI's new "toy" uses depth maps & machine learning to understand its surroundings.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 15

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Artificial Intelligence: Five Highly Anticipated Developments If you browse through news and discussions related to artificial intelligence (AI) over the past year, you will observe diverse opinions being peddled across the AI spectrum- some predict an overtly pessimistic scenario for humanity while others heap plaudits on the technological developments in the field.

Legal Analysis Finds Judges Have No Idea What Robots Are The last judge-ordered beheading in the United States occurred in 1981, US District Judge Charles Brieant announced that the "dismantling of Walter Ego's head and torso will be required." This wasn't some act of government-endorsed brutality, however. Walter Ego was a robot entertainer that was suspiciously similar to a competing robot named Rodney.

Jayne: Issue much more complex than 'Apple bad, FBI good' Being painfully aware of my many limitations, it didn't take long to realize that I am not smart enough to fully understand the kerfuffle between the FBI and Apple. You know, the one in which the federal government has asked the technology giant to break into an iPhone.

Google teaching its AI to predict next sentences of famous dead authors Google is working on developing smarter AI (artificial intelligence) systems which will be able to understand natural language based on connotation and personality traits of the speaker. The tech giant is currently teaching its AI to recognise and predict the works of famous dead authors.

AI learns to predict human reactions by reading our fiction "Over many millions of words, these mundane patterns [of people's reactions] are far more common than their dramatic counterparts," the team wrote in their study. "Characters in modern fiction turn on the lights after entering rooms; they react to compliments by blushing; they do not answer their phones when they are in meetings."

How Mashable is using artificial intelligence to shape stories From New Look to Google, artificial intelligence is increasingly featuring in the plans of forward-thinking brands, and according to new media darlings Mashable, AI should now be in the thoughts of publishers too.

Google's artificial intelligence unit enters healthcare via medical apps Alphabet-owned Google DeepMind is expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities from playing the complex board game Go to enabling patient monitoring and optimal treatment. The London-based company is piloting two apps at area hospitals under its just-launched division, DeepMind Health.

DeepMind's Artificial Intelligence Knows Where You Were Last Summer MIT Technology Review gives us yet another insight into Google's complex network of Artificial (AI), DeepMind. The AI system has a new ability which determines where a picture is taken, anywhere in the world. A computer vision specialist at Google, Tobias Weyand, has trained DeepMind's neural networks to calculate the location of any photo by using image pixels.

Dive Into the Artificial Intelligence Revolution at the GPU Technology Conference Deep learning changes everything. And our GPU Technology Conference will cover almost every aspect of it. Deep learning - which couples the parallel processing capabilities of GPUs with the vast quantities of data unleashed by the internet - has unlocked a new generation of artificial intelligence applications.

Ridley Scott And Carrie Fisher Help IBM Make Artificial Intelligence A Bit Less Scary The bulk of our impressions of artificial intelligence are based on how it's portrayed in movies. From Blade Runner to The Terminator to Ex Machina to Avengers: Age of Ultron, it's clear the only inevitable path to the impending robot apocalypse will be dark, brooding, and disastrous. Right? Maybe.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 14

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Artificial Intelligence Is Here To Change Your Life Take a second to think about the smartphone in your pocket. When you were born, the idea of such a small, powerful computer was a sci-fi dream -- and now these devices are everywhere, transforming personal health, relationships and business transactions so completely that life without them seems impossible.

Artificial intelligence startup MedyMatch launches, former Philips exec tapped as CEO Israel-based artificial intelligence startup MedyMatch Technology has launched with an artificial intelligence product that it hopes will improve performance in healthcare through its real-time decision support tools. MedyMatch also announced earlier this month that former Philips Imaging Systems CEO Gene Saragnese joined the company as chairman and CEO.

The Irony of Artificial Intelligence Solving Online Dating Frustrations I have had many articles published about dating, and a topic that seems to reboot quite frequently is the frustration with technology and its growing consequences on our lives and in our relationships. While there are many upsides to our accessibility for instant news, communication, and gratification, there is always a flip side.

Artificial Intelligence: Ten things you need to understand The history of artificial intelligence dates back into antiquity - intelligent robots appear in the myths of many ancient societies, including Greek, Arabic, Egyptian and Chinese. Today, the field is more vibrant than ever and some believe that we're on the threshold of discoveries that could change human society irreversibly, for better or worse.

Artificial Intelligence to be a $5.05 Billion Industry by 2020 PR Newswire has shared insight regarding artificial intelligence's global market growth forecast for 2015-2020. By 2020, the market is expected to grow up to $5.05 billion from $419.7 million in 2014. Currently, the major sources of revenue for AI are advertising, finance, and retail, but in the coming years the use will expand to all kind of fields such as healthcare, military, and aerospace.

Artificial Intelligence Helps Identify Cancer Cells While artificial intelligence may be making headlines in terms of robotics, its possibilities are also being explored in fields such as medicine which, although perhaps not Hollywood movie-friendly, are likely to have a significant impact on people's lives. Take for example the research conducted by an international team of scientists which uses machine learning to identify different kinds of cells.

Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet: The Catalyst, The Glue and The Transit System If the first few months are any indication, 2016 will be remembered amongst technologists as the year of Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). VR and AI have quickly reached Kardashian-esque levels, surrounded by a seemingly constant swirl of industry news, gossip and speculation.

Vanderbilt Law To Host Conference With Top Minds in Artificial Intelligence | Business Wire The top minds in artificial intelligence will come together April 13-14 at Vanderbilt Law School to speak about the impact of artificial intelligence

Google's Artificial Intelligence Development Expands To Smart Image Location February 28, 2016 @ 8:44 AM Google is a tech giant with deep links with supercomputers, artificial intelligence and more prominently with computer algorithms - so much so that it is now a verb (and not only a division of Alphabet Inc.)

The flawed IQ of artificial intelligence It was 18 years ago that a computer finally managed to beat the best human player of chess. That was a program called Deep Blue, which defeated then world champion Garry Kasparov. Kasparov recently wrote an article in the New York Review of Books, speaking about his defeat.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 13

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Can you solve the 'hat riddle' set by Google in job interviews? A riddle used during job interviews for Google has proven to be no problem for artificial intelligence. A team from the University of Oxford, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Google's DeepMind created an AI called "deep distrubted recurrent Q-networks" to tackle the "100 hats riddle".

If we are better educated then we will be able to resist the rise of the machines "Poof", replied Mary Midgley, crunching into a biscuit, when I asked if robots could meditate or write poetry. The whole idea of AI (artificial intelligence) is confused, the eminent 96-year-old philosopher continued, pointing out that self-driving cars may be made useful, even potentially life-saving, by being modelled in some ways on human agents, but they don't thereby become quasi-people.

Seeing is believing After decades of research into artificial vision, scientists are on the brink of developing next-generation robots. Michael Milford outlines the technological successes that are enabling robots to learn how to use sight in the same way humans do HUMAN BEINGS SPAN the globe.

Artificial intelligence needs your data, all of it The artificial intelligence revolution is clearly happening. And it's super exciting. A.I. will transform medicine, give us all super-smart virtual assistants, fight crime and a thousand things more. But there's a catch. In order for A.I. to work its miracles, it's going to need data. Massive amounts of data.

Acer Showcases BYOC Solutions for Connected Car, Business, Education, and Smart Home at Mobile World Congress 2016 Acer is showcasing its latest BYOC (Build Your Own Cloud™) developments at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona, in the fields of connected car, smart home, business, and education. SAN JOSE, Calif. (PRWEB) February 22, 2016 Acer is showcasing its latest BYOC (Build Your Own Cloud™) developments at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona, in the fields of connected car, smart home, business, and education.

Artificial intelligence to control the power grid in Riedholz Media Release: 23.02.2016 10:00 GridSense learns user behaviour with artificial intelligence. Together with the Canton of Solothurn, the four companies Adaptricity, AEK, Alpiq, and Landis+Gyr are investigating how the energy flow in a power distribution grid can be optimised and controlled through artificial intelligence in the town of Riedholz.

Hike plans to use artificial intelligence to beat WhatsApp Kavin Mittal has a theme: apps will go the way of compact disks (CDs). They will be obsolete within the next year. He argues that the price of smartphones might be dropping, but real estate on the memory card remains small and valuable.

Information, communication key to federal customer service The Education Department's Federal Student Aid employees keep an eye on students headed toward default. In some states, people can register online for a replacement Social Security card. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has Emma, a virtual assistant with artificial intelligence, who helps applicants who are literally and figuratively lost in translation.

Why artificial intelligence is ready for utilities By Matt Gould Imagine a platform that frees your operations experts from the shackles of data overload and meticulous reporting they suffer from on a daily basis. Fortunately, such a platform now exists and it's powered by a new type of artificial intelligence called natural language generation (NLG).

A Personal Shopper at Your Fingertips: How Reflektion is Tapping Artificial Intelligence to Revolutionize E-Commerce - Powered by Battery Reflektion-which delivers innovative "individualized commerce" technology for retailers-recently announced it has raised $18 million in Series B financing led by Battery Ventures. Here, Powered by Battery chats with CEO Sean Moran about the how the company is aiming to transform digital retail, partly by leveraging new types of artificial-intelligence technologies.