Tuesday, March 1, 2016

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 13

Welcome to the Momenta Learning News on Artificial Intelligence. This is issue 13, please feel free to share this post.

Can you solve the 'hat riddle' set by Google in job interviews?

A riddle used during job interviews for Google has proven to be no problem for artificial intelligence. A team from the University of Oxford, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Google's DeepMind created an AI called "deep distrubted recurrent Q-networks" to tackle the "100 hats riddle".

If we are better educated then we will be able to resist the rise of the machines

"Poof", replied Mary Midgley, crunching into a biscuit, when I asked if robots could meditate or write poetry. The whole idea of AI (artificial intelligence) is confused, the eminent 96-year-old philosopher continued, pointing out that self-driving cars may be made useful, even potentially life-saving, by being modelled in some ways on human agents, but they don't thereby become quasi-people.

Seeing is believing

After decades of research into artificial vision, scientists are on the brink of developing next-generation robots. Michael Milford outlines the technological successes that are enabling robots to learn how to use sight in the same way humans do HUMAN BEINGS SPAN the globe.

Artificial intelligence needs your data, all of it

The artificial intelligence revolution is clearly happening. And it's super exciting. A.I. will transform medicine, give us all super-smart virtual assistants, fight crime and a thousand things more. But there's a catch. In order for A.I. to work its miracles, it's going to need data. Massive amounts of data.

Acer Showcases BYOC Solutions for Connected Car, Business, Education, and Smart Home at Mobile World Congress 2016

Acer is showcasing its latest BYOC (Build Your Own Cloud™) developments at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona, in the fields of connected car, smart home, business, and education. SAN JOSE, Calif. (PRWEB) February 22, 2016 Acer is showcasing its latest BYOC (Build Your Own Cloud™) developments at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona, in the fields of connected car, smart home, business, and education.

Artificial intelligence to control the power grid in Riedholz

Media Release: 23.02.2016 10:00 GridSense learns user behaviour with artificial intelligence. Together with the Canton of Solothurn, the four companies Adaptricity, AEK, Alpiq, and Landis+Gyr are investigating how the energy flow in a power distribution grid can be optimised and controlled through artificial intelligence in the town of Riedholz.

Hike plans to use artificial intelligence to beat WhatsApp

Kavin Mittal has a theme: apps will go the way of compact disks (CDs). They will be obsolete within the next year. He argues that the price of smartphones might be dropping, but real estate on the memory card remains small and valuable.

Information, communication key to federal customer service

The Education Department's Federal Student Aid employees keep an eye on students headed toward default. In some states, people can register online for a replacement Social Security card. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has Emma, a virtual assistant with artificial intelligence, who helps applicants who are literally and figuratively lost in translation.

Why artificial intelligence is ready for utilities

By Matt Gould Imagine a platform that frees your operations experts from the shackles of data overload and meticulous reporting they suffer from on a daily basis. Fortunately, such a platform now exists and it's powered by a new type of artificial intelligence called natural language generation (NLG).

A Personal Shopper at Your Fingertips: How Reflektion is Tapping Artificial Intelligence to Revolutionize E-Commerce - Powered by Battery

Reflektion-which delivers innovative "individualized commerce" technology for retailers-recently announced it has raised $18 million in Series B financing led by Battery Ventures. Here, Powered by Battery chats with CEO Sean Moran about the how the company is aiming to transform digital retail, partly by leveraging new types of artificial-intelligence technologies.

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