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.