Artificial Intelligence News Issue 49

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Artificial intelligence brings new life to old photos | Science! | Geek.com A team out of Waseda University in Japan has unveiled some pretty cool images from the first half of the 20th century, given new depth with full colorization thanks to an artificial intelligence.

Bill Gates talks about why artificial intelligence is nearly here and how to solve two big problems it creates The real challenge is ensuring humans stay in control.

Tech Giants Bet Big on Artificial Intelligence | Fox Business As far back as I can remember, artificial intelligence (AI) was always going to be the next big thing to revolutionize the way we live and work. Funny thing is, that's still true. And yet, at this week's Code Conference, AI was the hot subject for CEOs of Amazon, Google and IBM.

Supply Chains and Artificial Intelligence: Ask Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos spoke this week at Recode's Code Conference in California about the "gigantic" potential of artificial intelligence. Pressed by moderator Walt Mossberg to speculate on where this technology is headed and what it means, Bezos went so far as to say that we may be on the "edge of [...]

Artificial intelligence accelerator opens in Mountain View A business incubator from Beijing will open an accelerator in Mountain View on Thursday for artificial intelligence startups. TechCode will select startups with existing AI prototypes to spend six months in the program, including two weeks in China meeting potential investing, manufacturing and distribution partners.

Meet Zenbo, the Asus robot that costs no more than a smartphone The Taiwanese electronics manufacture Asus has unveiled a home robot called Zenbo that can talk, control your home and provide assistance when needed - all for the cost of a top-end smartphone. The $599 (£410) robot rolls around on two wheels in the shape of a vacuum cleaner ball with cameras an oblong head extruding from the top with a colour touchscreen displaying a face with emotions.

Will Artificial Intelligence Be The Next Battlefield Between Facebook And Google? Recently, Facebook introduced "Deep Text" a text understanding engine that can understand with near human accuracy the textual context of several thousand posts per second, spanning more than 20 languages. The company plans to use this technology to improve user experience on its platform in several ways. Some examples include, [...]

Tech moguls declare era of artificial intelligence RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Calif. Artificial intelligence and machine learning will create computers so sophisticated and godlike that humans will need to implant "neural laces" in their brains to keep up, Tesla Motors and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk told a crowd of tech leaders this week.

New Artificial Intelligence Can Tell Stories Based on Photos Artificial intelligence may one day embrace the meaning of the expression "A picture is worth a thousand words," as scientists are now teaching programs to describe images as humans would. Someday, computers may even be able to explain what is happening in videos just as people can, the researchers said in a new study.

Artificial intelligence has helped detect secret code words used by inmates on prison phone calls A US prison was recently able to detect and prevent inmates from carrying out illegal business by using artificial intelligence to analyse calls made into and out of the prison for unusual patterns.