Artificial Intelligence News Issue 22

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The Difference Between Robot's Artificial Intelligence And Humans Countless science fiction novels and films have delved into what could happen if humans created robots or other machines with artificial intelligence. Usually they either become almost-human best friends and companions, or they turn into megalomaniacs with the goal of turning us into their slaves.

Entertainment, of All Things, Is Driving Development of Artificial Intelligence It's fun, not necessarily productivity, that will drive us to create smart machines.

Unleashing Artificial Intelligence with Human-Assisted Machine Learning Artificial intelligence has never been as pervasive as it is today. From Google's self-driving cars from to Hilton's new Watson-powered hotel concierge, we are witnessing an explosion of AI capabilities. But while it may appear that machines are taking over, they are still tied to their human masters for one very important task: training.

Don't Trust the Promise of Artificial Intelligence For The Motion Andrew Keen Internet Entrepreneur & Author, The Internet Is Not the Answer Andrew Keen, a renowned commentator on the digital revolution, believes 21st century machine intelligence may be the greatest challenge to the human species in history.

AI on the high street: Clever shopping with artificial intelligence As retailers and brands predict and plan for the way consumers will shop in the future, artificial intelligence (AI) is high on the business development strategy for 2016 and beyond. Promising significant benefits for both retailers and consumers, AI is already around us and used everyday within shopping and payments.

Exploring the risks of artificial intelligence "Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next ten."

Artificial Intelligence: Next Big Thing in Trading? Bartt Kellermann, chief executive officer and founder of Global Capital Acquisitions, discusses "the battle of the quants," quantitative based trading and employing artificial intelligence to power hedge funds. He speaks to Bloomberg's Rishaad Salamat on "Trending Business." (Source: Bloomberg)

AI in healthcare: Fascinating tech, but is it actually saving lives? In an unassuming two-storey Victorian town house in Bristol, the occupants are being filmed, monitored, and tracked by invisible sensors as they go about their business, 24 hours a day. What they lose in privacy could be our gain in life expectancy, if the long-term data bears out.

Some Artificial Intelligence Applications Are Making Humans Better People It may seem like humanity has been taking a lot of hits from artificial intelligence lately - from the AI that recently defeated world champion Lee Sedol in the game of Go, to the AI that consistently beats us on "Jeopardy," to the AI that is currently out-trumping Donald Trump on Twitter.

SCO's Artificial Intelligence Capabilities Are the Future of War The Department of Defense announced in early February, in an address to the Economic Club of Washington by Defense Scretary Ashton Carter, that its Strategic Capabilities Office was innovating "new roles and game-changing capabilities to confound potential enemies." The Washington Post's Dan Lamothe wrote an exclusive piece on the SCO, a hitherto unknown agency within the DoD, on March 8.