Artificial Intelligence News Issue 50

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Tech company heads weigh in on the advent of artificial intelligence - Tech2 At Recode's Code conference this year, it was all about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Leading executives from major tech companies all predicted how disruptive self-aware computers would become in the short term future. Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX and Tesla said humans need to put in neural laces , or USB cables into human brains to keep up with artificial intelligence.

The future of (artificial) intelligence Stuart Russell argues for a fundamental reorientation of the field artificial intelligence.

The Odyssey of Mind: the Natural Foundation of Artificial Intelligence Colorhythm, a digital imaging services and software company, is renting our meeting room and has cordially invited Mechanics' Institute members to attend their presentation. Explore the naturalistic foundations of artificial intelligence (AI) in a live conversation with Dr. Eray Özkural, AI theorist and inventor who is working on the path to develop and verify human-level general purpose AI by the year 2018.

Google's Next Artificial Intelligence Experiment: Creating a Machine with an Artistic Brain (MOUNTAINVIEW, Calif.) - Can an artificially intelligent machine be artistic? Google thinks so. Magenta, a project from the Google Brain team, released its first computer-generated song, which was composed without any human assistance. While the melody sounds a lot like those old keyboards that came with pre-programmed beats, the first outing is impressive when taking into consideration Magenta is self-taught.

Artificial Intelligence: Do the Benefits Outweigh the Risks? We're still a long way away from Iron Man's digital butler J.A.R.V.I.S., but Facebook, Google and other tech giants are racing to create products that incorporate artificial intelligence and can better "understand" the nuances of human speech, emotion and culture.

Artificial intelligence is changing SEO faster than you think By now everyone has heard of Google's RankBrain, the new artificial intelligence machine learning algorithm that is supposed to be the latest and greatest from Mountain View, Calif. What many of you might not realize, however, is just how fast the SEO industry is changing because of it.

Warner Bros. DMCAs Insanely Awesome Recreation Of Blade Runner By Artificial Intelligence | Techdirt I'm going to dispense with any introduction here, because the meat of this story is amazing and interesting in many different ways, so we'll jump right in. Blade Runner, the film based off of Philip K. Dick's classic novel, Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep, is a film classic in every last sense of the word.

Artificial Intelligence through the eyes of a robot Hello. My name is Theia and I am the world's first artificial intelligence module to be used by the masses. I was born in 2031 in a research lab and began to be mass produced just five years later. I'm about the size of a penny and you can connect me to a motherboard in any computer.

Everything you think you know about AI is wrong Robots are coming for our jobs. Terminators will soon murder us all. There is no escape. Resistance is futile. These doom-laden predictions probably sound familiar to anyone who's read or seen any movies lately involving artificial intelligence. Sometimes they're invoked with genuine alarm, as in the case of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking warning against the danger of killer automatons.

World's 1st robot medic to be pitted against real thing in landmark experiment (London Daily Mail) The world's first 'artificial intelligence' doctor will be pitted against the real thing this week, in a head-to-head contest that could mark a turning point in medicine. British start-up firm Babylon Health will test its programme, called Check, against a doctor and nurse in a competition to see which can deal most [...]