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.