Artificial Intelligence News Issue 39

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Can You Squeeze Real Value from Artificial Intelligence? It's 1985 and I'm at UCLA, attending my very first International Joint Conference on artificial intelligence. As a young researcher tasked with pioneering AI in my corporate research lab, this is an exciting opportunity. We are at the very peak of the AI hype curve. This is no ordinary academic conference.

Is artificial intelligence smartphone marketing's salvation or its undoing? While artificial intelligence has the potential to enhance the smartphone's role as a marketing platform through highly relevant one-to-one services, it could also eliminate the need for a phone to enable engagements as the technology evolves. Interest in artificial intelligence has taken off as the technology comes of age and brands recognize the potential to deliver one-to-one experiences.

Demystifying artificial intelligence Computers do what we tell them to do. Period. Any talk of computers doing things they weren't programmed to do is only a way of speaking. It's a convenient shorthand when used properly, misleading mysticism when used improperly.

Computers Gone Wild: Impact and Implications of Developments in Artificial Intelligence on Society | Berkman Center The second "Computers Gone Wild: Impact and Implications of Developments in Artificial Intelligence on Society" workshop took place on February 19, 2016 at Harvard Law School. Marin Soljačić, Max Tegmark, Bruce Schneier, and Jonathan Zittrain convened this informal workshop to discuss recent advancements in artificial intelligence research.

Infosys joins artificial intelligence gold rush; hunts for Silicon Valley supercoders | ETtech India's second largest software exporter Infosys is putting its might behind some of the biggest futuristic bets that the company is making, such as its newest artificial intelligence platform MANA, and putting key leaders in charge of developing these products, amid a scramble to hire top talent from the world's biggest tech hub, the Silicon Valley.

Artificial Intelligence Explodes At Investment, Enterprise Levels In the past half-decade, artificial intelligence has gone from the stuff of science fiction to components of major factory floors, cognitive technology expert Neil Jacobstein said at a Singularity University event in Boston Tuesday. Jacobstein chairs the AI & Robotics department at Singularity, the tech-driven benefit corporation that includes the likes of Google, Cisco and Deloitte among its founders.

Can Artificial Intelligence Help Government Serve Citizens? Wisconsin CIO David Cagigal thinks every time a citizen interacts with government, it should make government smarter.

A new day is coming in healthcare, where AI will help diagnose and treat disease, research new therapies, and make sure patients are compliant with treatment. In 2013 Jeopardy! fans were blown away as IBM's supercomputer WATSON wiped the floor with longtime champion Ken Jennings. Now WATSON HEALTH AI is being used in 16 cancer institutes across the country, helping to diagnose and treat patients. Meanwhile Google, not to be outdone, has launched DeepMind, which recently earned the title world champion of the complex game of Go.

Artificial Intelligence for the Next War The titans of tech don't talk about it, but entrepreneurial Silicon Valley was built on government spending, in particular Defense Department funding for things like radar, semiconductors and what became the Internet. Everybody was happy about that. Now maybe the Valley is returning the favor, building out the future of defense.

Lola's Booking Experiment Mixing Artificial Intelligence and Travel Agents Is Live Many travel agencies are working to better integrate mobile messaging into the travel booking process for clients. But a new service from online travel veterans is looking to take a technology-first approach to providing concierge-like service in the online travel booking space.