Artificial Intelligence News Issue 21

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What Is Artificial Intelligence? Must-See Robotics at RoboBusiness 2015 In 2011, IBM Watson beat Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings. That started the clock for the distributed, natural language processing platform. Big Blue has aggressively harnessed Watson. It is now a main part of the company's business portfolio and marketing strategy.

Artificial intelligence and insurance automation Since the dawn of industrialisation, mankind has been tinkering with short-cut contraptions. Designing and testing mechanisms that do more work with fewer resources, the process of mechanisation has dramatically changed labour and productivity in agriculture and manufacturing operations.

Big Four accounting firms delve into artificial intelligence Interesting news last week from two of the Big Four global audit and accounting firms and a glimpse into the future of professional services. First up was KPMG, which announced that it is signing up to IBM's " Jeopardy!"-winning analytics service to help with its auditing requirements.

Quiz: What Is Artificial Intelligence Really Capable Of? On Tuesday, a computer program created by Google defeated a grandmaster in the boardgame Go for the fourth time-a major advance in artificial intelligence research. So what else has been going on in the field, and what can A.I. actually achieve in 2016?

Michele Goetz' Blog You can't turn anywhere without bumping into artificial intelligence, machine learning, or cognitive computing jumping out at you. Our cars brake for us, park for us, and some are even driving us. Our movie lists are filled with Ex Machina, Her, and Lucy.

The 7 biggest myths about artificial intelligence - TechRepublic We hear about AI taking over our jobs. We hear about AI listening in on our conversations. We hear about AI becoming a substitute for our romantic partners. Here's what the real AI experts Guru Banavar, (IBM), Toby Walsh, (The University of New South Wales), and Roman Yampolskiy (University of Louisville), say about the subject, and why a lot of what you think you know is probably wrong.

There is a serendipitous link between Generation Z and artificial intelligence, says AKQA Generation Z will drive the age of leisure and passion, a phenomenon being accelerated by artificial intelligence, according to executive creative director of AKQA Shanghai, Eric Cruz. Speaking at Adfest in Thailand, Cruz explored what creativity meant in the age of the 'superhuman', stating that a serendipitous crossover was about to happen that would herald in an age of leisure and passion, rather than work.

Pharma.AI launches to apply artificial intelligence to drug discovery and development March 15, 2016, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, one of the leaders in advanced signaling pathway activation analysis and deep learning for aging and cancer research is proud to announce the formation of the Pharmaceutical Artificial Intelligence division focused on applying latest advances in artificial intelligence to streamline drug discovery and drug repurposing processes and significantly cutting time to market.

We Need To Talk About Artificial Intelligence - Minutehack This year at SXSW, VR was everywhere but it felt like artificial intelligence was poised to have the biggest impact on our lives. From computers playing Go to autonomous cars, the conversation had shifted from possibility to reality.

Using artificial intelligence in the classroom After Google's artificially intelligent (AI) computer system beat world champion "Go" player Lee Sedol of South Korea, some are wondering if man-made neural networks can be applied in educational settings to benefit learning.