Artificial Intelligence News Issue 32

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Woodside expands IBM Watson artificial intelligence as tech takes centre stage Woodside Petroleum has expanded its use of IBM's Watson cognitive computing, which learns on the job, and upped its focus on digital initiatives as it seeks to drive more value out of systems across its sprawling operations.

Tesla Motors Autopilot is Non-Scary Artificial Intelligence (TSLA) Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) is riding on a tidal wave of notoriety since the start of 2016. The firm is continuing to lead an industry in a transition away from internal combustion engines and toward all electric power. Most of the media attention lately comes from the introduction of the "affordable" Tesla Model 3.

The innovators: can computers be taught to lip-read? When Zinedine Zidane, the then French captain, headbutted Italy's Marco Materazzi during the 2006 World Cup final, the clash quickly became one of the most infamous incidents in football history. What was not clear was what sparked the Frenchman's ire - Zidane said his mother had been insulted, a charge that Materazzi vigorously denied.

Why smartwatches need bots The bots are taking over. The tech world has been abuzz with news about more companies stepping into the chatbot world, with the most notable being Kik, Microsoft (through Skype) and Facebook with Messenger. So far the news has largely been focused on bots changing how we use our smartphones.

How Chevron Plans to Use UAVs and AI to Deliver Big Profits Due to the continual breakthroughs in semiconductors, natural language processing, and other technologies, some scientists think that AI could eclipse human intelligence as soon as 2029. Given the improvements in weight reduction and battery technology, many investors believe UAVs could do everything from powering Internet connections to delivering products quickly over the next decade too.

How to prepare your business to benefit from AI - TechRepublic With business applications of artificial intelligence ranging from customer service, to hiring, to marketing, it's clear that AI is a tool that is critical for companies to embrace. But using AI has consequences for business structures, hierarchies, and budgets.

Three ways artificial intelligence is helping to save the world April 26, 2016 - When you think of artificial intelligence, the first image that likely comes to mind is one of sentient robots that walk, talk and emote like humans. But there's a different kind of AI that's becoming prevalent in nearly all of the sciences.

AI machine beats college kids at foosball NEW YORK (CNNMoney) - Computers have been beating humans at board games like chess and Go. But now they've conquered the basement and bar game of foosball too. A group of undergrads at Brigham Young University in Utah have built an AI machine that can play on a modified foosball table.

Infosys launches artificial intelligence platform Mana | ETtech Software services major Infosys has launched an artificial intelligence platform 'Mana' that will help clients drive automation and innovation. The company said that the platform, that brings machine learning together with 'deep knowledge of an organisation', will enable businesses to continuously reinvent their system landscapes and lower maintenance cost of assets.

Microsoft executive believes artificial intelligence ways away from replacing human intelligence Artificial intelligence will likely not reach the level of intelligence that allows it to think like human beings, even if technology now is able to surpass humans in specific tasks, according to a senior Microsoft executive....

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 31

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Gelernter: A dissenting voice in the field of artificial intelligence The relationship between the human mind and body is something that has occupied philosophers at least since the father of modern philosophy, René Descartes, bequeathed his notorious "dualism" to his successors.

Thermal Cameras Get an Artificial Intelligence Upgrade Low-power machine vision company Movidius has teamed up with thermal imaging company FLIR Systems, bringing Artificial Intelligence capabilities to Boson, FLIR's latest thermal-imaging camera core. FLIR will now integrate the Myriad 2 Vision Processing Unit into its thermal core to create the most intelligent thermal imaging solution to date.

Artificial Intelligence Takes Shape In Oil, Gas Sector When artificial intelligence technology intersects with abundant oil and gas seismic data, the outcome could yield a more accurate depiction of what lies beneath the surface, enabling cash-strapped drillers to better target sweet spots and maximize returns.It's all based on algorithms that essentially teach computers how to solve complex problems-in this instance, how to quickly and accurately find subsurface faults that lead to lucrative hydrocarbon discoveries.

Rocket Fuel (FUEL) - An Artificial Intelligence Stock? In previous articles, we've talked about the merits of artificial intelligence and big data and how these technologies can enable a multitude of industries to begin learning how to do things more effectively. One area where these technologies can be used is in digital marketing.

Dan Ariely on Building More Human Technology, Data, Artificial Intelligence, and More Dan Ariely, professor of psychology and behavioral economics and author of New York Times best-sellers Predictably Irrational and The Update Of Irrationality, talks about what the technology world can learn from the psychology world and how we help the machines to understand us better.

Outwitting poachers with artificial intelligence | NSF - National Science Foundation Press Release 16-048 Outwitting poachers with artificial intelligence NSF-funded researchers apply computer science and game theory to protect Earth's endangered animals and forests April 22, 2016 A century ago, more than 60,000 tigers roamed the wild. Today, the worldwide estimate has dwindled to around 3,200.

Demystifying the Role of Artificial Intelligence in Marketing and Advertising - eMarketer The hype around artificial intelligence (AI) is ramping up, especially as big tech companies like Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM and Microsoft attempt to commercialize its use. Agencies are also starting to figure out how they can leverage AI to make their clients’ marketing and advertising efforts more effective.

Artificial Intelligence Helps Advertisers Be More Compassionate | AdExchanger "Data-Driven Thinking" is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today's column is written by Alastair Boyle, global client partner and head of strategy at Essence. You might be surprised to hear these words in the same sentence, but compassion has been a core concept...

Google believes its Artificial Intelligence key to growth California: Internet giant Google has asserted that its Artificial Intelligence(AI) and cloud computing is the most lucrative and promising businesses in the tech industry. That AI type of service-based business is fast becoming the new way to reap profits in the tech industry, the California-based tech giant said.

This Company Wants to Cure Pancreatic Cancer Using AI Four people stand, eyes squinting, on the verdant, freshly mowed field of Boston's Fenway Park. It's a blue-sky summer day, a perfect afternoon for a baseball game. The smiles on their faces are broad, if a bit shy. They are among the lucky ones-the tiny share of people who fought and survived ­pancreatic cancer.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 30

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How can Rush predict who's got Zika or Ebola? Artificial intelligence. A patient walks into the emergency department at Rush University Medical Center with a fever and bloodshot eyes. In days of yore, doctors would have to exhaustthe obvious possibilities - like a flu or allergic reaction - before finally figuring a patient was suffering from Zika virus.

Advanced Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a modern computing field that attempts to augment machine development to the point where it transcends human intelligence. The subject incorporates the concepts of computation and statistics with brain physiology, to create autonomous sentient machines capable of extrapolating independent conclusions. The success to creating a successful AI is contingent upon success...

Artificial Intelligence's Ultimate Challenge? Cyber Attacks Have you heard the one about how our jobs are about to be snatched away by machines? Or how artificial intelligence will ultimately rise up against us?

When Artificial Intelligence Started To 'Change The World' ENIAC in Action: Making and Remaking the Modern Computer, is a nuanced, engaging and thoroughly researched account of the early days of computers, the people who built and operated them, and their old and new applications.

Artificial Intelligence Useful in Cancer Diagnosis? AI Proves Use In Finding Cancer Cells Despite Reports Claiming It Could Destroy Humanity Despite the latest reports claiming the development of artificial intelligence (AI) could end humanity within decades, it recently proved its use in cancer diagnosis. University of California Los Angeles researchers found a new method of detecting cancer cells faster and more accurately without destroying them.

Why You Can't Teach Human Values to Artificial Intelligence If you encountered a robot on the street, you would want it to give you the right of way instead of just rolling over your foot, right? Making room for a passerby is simple, but it's just one of the many human "values" that we seek to make our increasingly prolific machine creations obey.

Artificial intelligence in healthcare: an interview with Dr Ehud Reiter Dr. Ehud Reiter Chief Scientist, Arria NLG Professor of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen Artificial Intelligence has made huge advances in recent years in many areas, including language processing, vision, and machine learning; we are also seeing the emergence of platforms that integrate different kinds of AI, such as IBM Watson (Arria is a Watson ecosystem partner).

15 examples of artificial intelligence in marketing Here are a whole bunch of case studies and use cases, as a complete primer for AI in our industry. Predictive analytics allows Netflix to surface and finesse recommendations. This kind of clustering algorithm is continually improving suggestions, allowing users to make the most of their subscription.

Microsoft and Google Want to Let Artificial Intelligence Loose on Our Most Private Data New ways to use machine learning without risking sensitive data could unlock new ideas in industries like health care and finance. The recent emergence of a powerful machine-learning technique known as deep learning has made computing giants such as Google, Facebook, and Microsoft even hungrier for data.

What Artificial Intelligence Means for the Job Market - DZone Big Data The Big Data Zone is presented by Exaptive. Learn about how to rapidly iterate data applications, while reusing existing code and leveraging open source technologies. The future is here. Even just a generation ago, the concept of a handheld device able to talk back to you was a fantasy, but it's now something that even toddlers are used to.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 29

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Tesla's Electric Vehicle Slide, Augmented Reality Contact Lenses image courtesy Getty Images via MarketWatch This is Change Log - my semi-weekly observations and links on the intersection of tech, commerce, health, culture and markets Tesla just made a really big splash with the reveal for its affordable Model 3 - and almost 300,000 new orders.

The application of AI to healthcare International expert on artificial intelligence, Professor Michael Georgeff talks the application of AI to healthcare and Dr Nick Carr tells you about this year's flu vaccine.

Artificial intelligence and racism Indeed, AI is here - although Microsoft's blunder with Tay, the "teenaged girl AI" embodied by a Twitter account who "turned racist" shows that we obviously still have a long way to go. The pace of advancement, mixed with our general lack of knowledge in the realm of artificial intelligence, has spurred many to chime in on the emerging topic of AI and ethics.

Artificial intelligence project could yield clues about autism | Spectrum Researchers have traced the paths of thousands of neurons in a tiny piece of mouse brain, creating the largest map of neuronal wiring to date. The atlas, published in March in Nature, shows not only how these neurons connect, but also how they function as the brain processes information.

Artificial intelligence rules on agenda for G-7 tech ministers - The Nation Some experts in the field predict that AI will have higher-level capabilities than human brains by 2045. An increasing number of people say it is necessary to establish systems to prevent AI programmes from running out of control and harming humans, and to prevent AI programmes from leaking personal information.

Artificial intelligence for daily use Real-world artificial-intelligence applications are popping up in unexpected places - and much sooner than you might think. While winning a game of Go might be impressive, machine intelligence is also evolving to the point where it can be used by more people to do more things.

Artificial Intelligence: Marketing Buzzword, or Reality? One of the first key takeaways from Vanderbilt Law School's conference on Thursday about artificial intelligence is that the term doesn't carry much value in the scientific community. "A.I. is whatever we can't do this year," David Lewis, a speaker who holds a PhD in computer science, said in between panel sessions.

Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Can It Take Over? Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk first warned us about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Elon Musk then turned around and with other technologists put $1B into starting a nonprofit research effort - OpenAI just to "keep an eye on it"! Facebook, Google, Amazon, Nvidia, Shopify and others are charging full steam at AI and even open sourcing it!

Human Intuition Defeats Artificial Intelligence in Quantum Computing Game First Posted: Apr 16, 2016 04:38 AM EDT People have an upper hand over artificial intelligence (AI) when it concerns intuitive thinking and solving complex science problems, according to a new study. In the past few decades, the progress in science and technology have enabled scientists to develop AI that beats people at their own games, however the new discovery reveals a different angle.

How can Rush predict who's got Zika or Ebola? Artificial intelligence. A patient walks into the emergency department at Rush University Medical Center with a fever and bloodshot eyes. In days of yore, doctors would have to exhaustthe obvious possibilities - like a flu or allergic reaction - before finally figuring a patient was suffering from Zika virus.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 28

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Oil and gas companies pin hopes on artificial intelligence Updated April 12, 2016 16:26:57 With oil and gas prices hovering at decade lows, companies are turning to artificial intelligence to cut costs and boost productivity. The technology, which gives companies the ability to predict future problems, is estimated to save the industry trillions of dollars and lead to a new wave of highly sophisticated jobs.

Using Artificial Intelligence to Personalize Communication At a time when the banking industry needs to become increasingly focused on creating better customer experiences, the importance of distributing personalized communications that provide real value has never been greater. Artificial intelligence (AI) can help make this possible - both automatically and at scale. The banking industry is undergoing a major transformation.

Why artificial intelligence is more important than ever and how it will change our lives For nearly 60 episodes, one question has persisted through What's Tech: what is happening in the ending of Steven Spielberg's 2001 sci-fi film A.I. Artificial Intelligence? To settle the question once and for all, I invited my friend and artificial intelligence expert, Sam Byford, to appear on the show.

Artificial Intelligence breathes life into "digital sardines" | OMRON Story | OMRON Global OMRON Story Demonstration of "digital sardines" What you see here is a video image of some 15,000 sardines swimming in a large group in the boundless expanse of the ocean. Moving to the right or left in a well-coordinated manner, sardines avoid bumping into each other, with the shoal constantly changing its shape.

Artificial Intelligence in education-imagining and building tomorrow's cyber learning platform today In the late 1960s, urban planners Horst Rittel and Melvin Webber began formulating the concept of "wicked problems" or "wicked challenges" -problems so vexing in the realm of social and organizational planning that they could not be successfully ameliorated with traditional linear, analytical, systems-engineering types of approaches.

Microscope uses artificial intelligence to find cancer cells more efficiently Tunde Akinloye/CNSI UCLA's Claire Lifan Chen and Ata Mahjoubfar with the new device, which can image cancer cells extremely quickly and without damaging blood samples. Scientists at the California NanoSystems Institute at UCLA have developed a new technique for identifying cancer cells in blood samples faster and more accurately than the current standard methods.

Artificial Intelligence for Everyday Use: Coming Soon Real-world artificial-intelligence applications are popping up in unexpected places-and much sooner than you might think. While winning a game of Go might be impressive, machine intelligence is also evolving to the point where it can be used by more people to do more things.

Google updates TensorFlow, its open source artificial intelligence The battle for the future of computing is a battle to bring artificial intelligence to the mainstream - and Google is quietly overhauling a machine learning tool used to improve some of its most popular services including Google Translate and Google Photos.

Artificial intelligence expert: Technology could be 'really good' or 'really not good' It seems like everywhere you look, there's something that's thinking for you, guessing for you, or just plain doing for you. That's the work of artificial intelligence, and contrary to popular belief, it's no longer the stuff of science fiction. So why are some experts so worried about it?

The Lawfare Podcast: Daniel Weitzner and Benjamin Wittes on Going Dark and the Fallout from Apple v. FBI Apple and the FBI may have been settled the litigation over the San Bernadino iPhone litigation, but that doesn't mean the fight is over. With Congress on the verge of considering new legislation to compel technology companies to decrypt data, the Going Dark debate is alive and well.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 27

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Artificial Intelligence: Bringing Humanity to Big Data & Customer Experience - insideBIGDATA In this special guest feature, Dave O'Flanagan, CEO and co-founder of Boxever , outlines how airlines are leveraging big data and predictive capabilities to transform how they engage with customers. Dave is the CEO and co-founder of Boxever , a data science and omni-channel personalization platform for travel companies.

frog The subprime financial crisis revealed that our data is only as good as our ability to analyze and understand it. AI will be necessary to helping prevent the next crisis before it happens.

Artificial intelligence can compose video game music of the future Marco Scirea, a PhD student at the IT University of Copenhagen, won the best paper award at the EvoMUSART conference for his research on music composition using artificial intelligence. Can artificial intelligence create music that is harmonious, pleasant and interesting to human ears?

Wanted: Creative types to shape the personalities of virtual assistants Poets, comedians, fiction writers and other artistic types are being charged with engineering the personalities for a fast-growing crop of artificial-intelligence tools. Share story SAN FRANCISCO - Until recently, Robyn Ewing was a writer in Hollywood, developing TV scripts and pitching pilots to film studios.

The funny things happening on the way to singularity Technology will eventually make work obsolete. Our big problems are going to be figuring out how to survive the transition, then figuring out what to do with all that free time. Given the relationship most people have with their smartphones, you could argue it's already happening.

Toyota Research Institute to open facility in Michigan | ZDNet More big moves at the Toyota Research Institute (TRI): CEO Gill Pratt announced that the carmaker's $1bn dollar artificial intelligence and robotics initiative would open a third facility, this one in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Jeff Hawkins: Creating Future Intelligent Machines - Techaeris Intelligent machines are still far off in the future, how far is anyone's guess but the reality is the concept is being worked on. There's much debate on intelligent machines, otherwise known as "artificial intelligence," and whether or not creating such things is wise.

Why It's a Mistake to Compare A.I. With Human Intelligence In 1950, the brilliant mathematician and cryptographer Alan Turing began his seminal paper " Computing Machinery and Intelligence "with a simply query: "I propose to consider the question, 'Can machines think?' " It is a question that still resonates today, because it is essentially incoherent and thus unanswerable.

Human intelligence needed to compete with AI | Rochester Business Journal New York business news and information Automation has traditionally replaced manual workers, but in its current third phase, many things that knowledge workers do today will be automated through artificial intelligence. This concerns many of us, as reflected in the recent Rochester Business Journal Daily Report Snap Poll ("Readers weigh in on risks of AI," March 18, 2016).

Can Artificial Intelligence Be Ethical? PRINCETON - Last month, AlphaGo, a computer program specially designed to play the game Go, caused shockwaves among aficionados when it defeated Lee Sidol, one of the world's top-ranked professional players, winning a five-game tournament by a score of 4-1. Why, you may ask, is that news?

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Artificial intelligence trumps political experts A year ago today, on April 1, 2015, as part of a project on prediction at the New York Universe - Center for Data Superiority (NYU-CDS), I gathered together a political scientist, a data-driven journalist, a traditional campaign reporter for a major newspaper and an artificial intelligence application created by a major international business machine company to discuss the state of the primary contests and to collect their predictions for the eventual nominees.

10 Remarkable But Scary Developments In Artificial Intelligence - Listverse Technology Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk have something in common, and it's not wealth or intelligence. They' re all terrified of the AI takeover. Also called the AI apocalypse, the AI takeover is a hypothetical scenario where artificially intelligent machines become the dominant life-form on Earth.

UX Careers and Artificial Intelligence If you have seen "careers" and "artificial intelligence" in the same sentence, it's likely because there is yet another article wondering whether certain jobs will soon be done faster and more reliably by an intelligent algorithm. Employers who hire UX professionals needn't worry about their staff being replaced by programmed intelligence any time in the near future.

More Seattle brainpower coming to artificial intelligence Opentopic blog >> seattletimes.com The Paul Allen artificial-intelligence venture is preparing to take the technology it is working on, Aristo, to the eighth-grade level of science knowledge and understanding. Artificial intelligence is getting bigger and smarter right here in Seattle.

Artificial Intelligence: The Next Wave of Smart Machines Artificial Intelligence (AI), or the development of smart machines, has been likened to "building the Internet itself - something that can only be done over time, and with a huge number of incremental advances." The development of a wide array of intelligent machine innovations are underway in labs across the nation, and have breathtaking potential for education, healthcare, business, finance and more.

Baidu Consults Science Fiction Writers for AI Research Project HOME > TECH > Baidu Consults Science Fiction Writers for AI Research Project Baidu has launched a research project on artificial intelligence (AI) called the Verne Plan, and brings together scientists and science fiction writers to turn imagination into reality.

A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence - DATAVERSITY The roots of modern Artificial Intelligence, or AI, can be traced back to the classical philosophers of Greece, and their efforts to model human thinking as a system of symbols. More recently, in the 1940s, a school of thought called "Connectionism" was developed to study the process of thinking.

Facebook taps into AI to help blind people see photos In recent months, Silicon Valley companies like Microsoft and Twitter have unveiled new technology that is designed to accommodate the blind. On Tuesday, Facebook jumped onboard with automatic alternative text, a new feature that uses artificial intelligence to describe aloud the contents of photos for visually impaired users, such as how many people are in the photo, whether those people are smiling and how many people have liked the photo using Facebook's in-house object recognition technology.

IBM Combines Blockchain Technology With Artificial Intelligence To Virtually Turn Back Time IBM wants to combine blockchain's distributed ledger technology with its artificial intelligence arm to make the billions of smart devices connected to the internet safer, and by doing so it would allow virtual time travel by letting regulators rewind to the point when the problem occurred and see just what happened.

Using artificial intelligence to revolutionize diabetes treatment A Silicon Valley startup wants to use artificial intelligence to help diabetes patients better navigate health and lifestyle decisions. Suggestic, an application and Internet-based platform, is looking to fuse medical advances with a growing trend of personalized healthcare - making interventions specific to the individual patient.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 25

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Tech Companies Race to Bring Artificial Intelligence to Market | KQED It's been a busy month in the field of artificial intelligence (AI). In a face-off of man versus machine, the world champion of the Go board game lost to Google's AI program. And just last week, Microsoft unveiled a program designed to Tweet like a teenage girl -- only to have it devolve into praising Hitler and lambasting feminists.

Artificial intelligence impacts legal profession You've probably seen one of the many commercials featuring the IBM supercomputer Watson, which made waves a few years ago when it easily defeated two "Jeopardy!" champions. Watson even analyzes trends in music now, as seen in a recent advertising spot featuring Bob Dylan.

Artificial Intelligence and the Next Big Thing - DATAVERSITY by Angela Guess Quentin Hardy recently wrote in the New York Times, "As the oracles of Silicon Valley debate whether the latest tech boom is sliding toward bust, there is already talk about what will drive the industry's next growth spurt. The way we use computing is changing, toward a boom (and, if history is ...

Why firms are piling into artificial intelligence Why firms are piling into artificial intelligence SOMETIMES it is perceived as a figment of the far future. But artificial intelligence (AI) is today's great obsession in Silicon Valley. Last year technology companies spent $8.5 billion on deals and investments in artificial intelligence, four times more than in 2010.

Artificial intelligence steals money from banking customers A breakthrough year for artificial intelligence (AI) research has suddenly turned into a breakdown, as a new automated banking system that runs on AI has been caught embezzling money from customers. The surprising turn of events may set back by years efforts to incorporate AI into everyday technology.

How Google Plans to Solve Artificial Intelligence Padded walls, gloomy lighting, and a ceiling with floral wallpaper. It doesn't look like a place to make groundbreaking discoveries that change the trajectory of society. But in these simulated, claustrophobic corridors, Demis Hassabis thinks he can lay the foundations for software that's smart enough to solve humanity's biggest problems. "Our goal's very big," says Hassabis, whose level-headed manner can mask the audacity of his ideas.

Paul Allen doubles down on artificial intelligence research in Seattle The Paul Allen artificial-intelligence venture is preparing to take the technology it is working on, Aristo, to the eighth-grade level of science knowledge and understanding. Share story Artificial intelligence is getting bigger and smarter right here in Seattle.

Blind Microsoft Developer Can 'See' Using Artificial Intelligence Headset Saqib Shaikh lost his sight when he was seven years old. In the pursuit of the freedoms that sighted people all take for granted every day, Shaikh has been personally involved in the development of an application of Artificial Intelligence, cognitive computing, image recognition and mobile headset technologies.

Interview: Paul Allen's artificial intelligence guru on the future of robots and humanity - GeekWire Artificial intelligence may seem like a futuristic concept, but we're already experiencing it in real ways in our lives, whether we know it or not - in areas including speech recognition, spam filters and even loan processing. And AI is only going to get more sophisticated from here.

A Weird Month for Artificial Intelligence - DZone IoT The IoT Zone is brought to you in partnership with ThingWorx. Explore the ThingWorx Developer Zone and learn how to rapidly develop IoT applications. Some of the more interesting and universally accessible developments in technology over the past decade (to me anyway) have been within the artificial intelligence world.

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News by Nathan Parde The first-ever workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Security (AICS) was held on 12 February as part of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence's (AAAI) annual conference in Phoenix, Arizona.

DailyDirt: Does It Take A Village To Teach Artificial Intelligence? | Techdirt The accomplishments of artificial intelligence are making it a popular topic in the news again, both for its wins and its (apparent) failures. General artificial intelligence hasn't quite lived up to its full potential yet, but more open source AI projects could help speed up development.

Amazon's conference on robotics and artificial intelligence shrouded in mystery - Fourth Source This week, Amazon hosted an exclusive conference that brought together big names from fields such as space exploration, robotics, and artificial intelligence. The event, which was held at the Parker Palm Springs Resort in California, was invite-only and received almost no publicity.

Oakland-based art and tech studio 💾🌵 takes critical look at A.I. Artificial intelligence is not as advanced as you may think. Sure, it's technologically advanced, but it lacks a general understanding of what's socially acceptable to say, the real world and the way humans interact. In the last couple of months, Microsoft has had a couple of failed attempts with artificial intelligence.

The biggest mystery in AI right now is the ethics board that Google set up after buying DeepMind Google's artificial intelligence (AI) ethics board, established when Google acquired London AI startup DeepMind in 2014, remains one of the biggest mysteries in tech, with both Google and DeepMind refusing to reveal who sits on it.

COLUMN: The limits of artificial intelligence Most of us probably don't live with the constant fear of a robot uprising, but it's still scary and exciting to know how far artificial intelligence has come. Some of us might hope for a future with robot maids from "The Jetsons" and comedic Benders from "Futurama."

Artificial Intelligence and Classrooms: Will It Help or Hurt? Is artificial intelligence the next big wave in ed-tech offerings? NPR reports that Pearson, the world's largest education company, says artificial intelligence is already showing up in classrooms and could offer plenty in the way of assessment. An example of artificial intelligence at work in classrooms could entail software to provide instant feedback regarding students' knowledge, progress and method of learning.

Martin Ford Interview: The Relevance of Artificial Intelligence "The robots are coming" is not something Paul Revere said during the American Revolution, but it is certainly something many people have uttered over the years. So have we finally reached the tipping point where artificial intelligence and robots will begin to take over human jobs en masse?

Yellow Messenger: Artificial Intelligence-based app to discover, shop for products - Tech2 Chat apps are very popular and arguably, most people would prefer engaging in a chat conversation rather than make a phone call. Going by recent buzz, it's apparent that tech giants are planning to bring chat conversations to advertisers and marketers. But there are many startups out there already using chat conversations to simplify user queries.

Amazon Brings Artificial Intelligence To The Smart Home Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN), Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Alphabet (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) are each pursuing unique visions of the smart home, the home as an ever-connected smart device. Home automation has been around as long as the PC, but is still struggling to find the right user interface and functionality that will make this compelling.

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One stat shows how artificial intelligence is exploding into the world Chip Somodevilla / Getty Artificial intelligence is going bananas right now. Google made headlines with it huge victory in the ancient game of Go a few weeks ago. And AI is entering into the marketplace at a historic rate, changing industries as complex as Wall Street in the process.

What used to take up a whole server room, is taking us to another realm of communication Apps like SwiftKey put AI in our pockets to help us sort out the patterns of human language When most people think of artificial intelligence, they think of Cylons, or Terminators, or HAL-sentient robots who turn on their masters in an effort to destroy the human race.

Wall Streeters be warned: A CIA-backed artificial intelligence firm could be listening to your calls If you're a Wall Street trader, you'll want to be extra careful about what you say on calls and in emails going forward. Especially if you work for Credit Suisse. That firm has teamed up with the artificial intelligence firm Palantir to improve its trader surveillance, Bloomberg's Jeffrey Voegeli reports.

Artificial Intelligence Reduces Hospital Admissions By Christine Kern , contributing writer Research reveals benefits of integrating machine learning into remote monitoring. Home healthcare software provider AlayaCare and home health provider We Care (part of the CBI Health Group)have released a white paper providing insight into how machine learning/artificial intelligence, when integrated into remote patient monitoring, can reduce hospital readmissions and emergency room visits.

Can Artificial Intelligence Solve Japan's Demographic Decline? BEIJING - Since Google's computer program AlphaGo won four out of five matches against South Korea's champion Go player, Japanese governmental officials are seriously wondering whether artificial intelligence (AI) is the way to rewrite

One Concern: Applying Artificial Intelligence to Emergency Management Ahmad Wani remembers Oct. 8, 2005. It was the day when at 8:50 a.m. Pakistan Standard Time, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck his home in Kashmir killing more than 70,000 people and displacing another 4 million. He recalls the devastation clearly, the homes left in shambles, the shortages of food and water, the many lives torn asunder in the course of seconds.

Twitter May Have Just Doomed Humanity by Trolling an Artificial Intelligence Bot | VICE News Some bright bulb at Microsoft Research had the clever idea of turning a machine learning program loose on Twitter yesterday to learn how humans interact with each other. Humans, predictably, interacted terribly. Within 24 hours, the Twitter bot had turned spectacularly ugly in the way only the internet can turn things ugly, spewing racism and hate at Twitter uses in a series of horrifying tweets.

Cloud plus artificial intelligence is creating The Matrix (and that's a good thing) | ZDNet The Matrix is coming, but it might not look quite how you might expect. A study by advisory firm Leading Edge Forum titled Embracing 'the Matrix' and the Machine Intelligence Era , suggests that the combination of cloud computing and artificial and machine intelligence (MI) "will increasingly be able to perform just about everything that companies and individuals do, and many things that we cannot".

Artificial Intelligence, Spiritual Evolution and a World Without Anger Maybe Skynet will not be our future. Maybe artificial intelligence will not be the machines that disdainfully wipe us out, but instead, will be the long-awaited "little child" who finally leads our species out of its vicious cycles of violence, red in tooth and claw.

Amazon Has Secret Plans for Space and Artificial Intelligence Google may be looking to end their involvement with robots and artificial intelligence, but that's hardly stopping Amazon. The e-commerce more retailer recently held a top secret conference for robot experts and space explorers. There were even lightsabers involved.