Saturday, April 2, 2016

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 23

Welcome to the Momenta Learning News on Artificial Intelligence. This is issue 23, please feel free to share this post.

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.

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