Artificial Intelligence News Issue 53

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"It's Going to Kill Us!" and Other Myths About the Future of Artificial Intelligence When it comes to artificial intelligence, myths are spreading faster than the technology itself is advancing. Left unchecked, these myths could inspire fears that undermine the technology's progress, which would be to the detriment of economic growth and social progress.

Artificial Intelligence: Artificial Truth - Here and Now. Artificial intelligence ... Two words which together conjure up so much wonder and awe in the imagination of programmers, sci-fi fans and perhaps just about anyone with an interest in the fate of the world!

VOX CEPR's Policy Portal Since the second half of the 1990s, productivity growth has accelerated in the US due to the Information Technology (IT) Revolution. However, the productivity effects of traditional types of IT were exhausted by mid-2000 (e.g. Fernald 2015).

Artificial Intelligence Takes A Front Seat In Online Education Students at Georgia Tech were part of a recent social experiment, but they just didn't realize it at the time. Computing Professor Ashok Goel teaches an

Artificial intelligence, Robots and Financial Services - Innomag.no AI is entering Financial Services by automating processes, identifying patterns by crunching Big Data, and interacting with humans through voice. What areas of Financial Services will NOT be affected, and how will consumers buy banking and insurance services in the future?

Artificial Narrow Intelligence The term "artificial intelligence" often evokes images from science fiction movies. However, AI technology isn't fiction: it's real, and it's gaining wider usage. Three types of AI are widely recognized in the technological community: narrow, general, and super. Artificial narrow intelligence (ANI) refers to a computer's ability to perform a single task extremely well, such as crawling a webpage or playing chess.

Obama adviser suggests artificial intelligence might do a better job running the criminal justice system Those artificial intelligence programs being created by Google and other brain trusts are getting more clever by the day. When they're not beating game masters in a Go tournament they're composing new, original music. But leave it to the government to try to make the best use of new technology.

Enabling Effective Decision Making with Artificial Intelligence and Semantics - DATAVERSITY by Angela Guess Luca Scagliarini recently wrote in ITProPortal, "Speed and scale were once the most important features of computing power but the so-called 'information era' has radically changed the business drivers of any organisation, putting data at the centre of their strategies. Today, intelligent systems making sense of information enable the most effective data-driven ...

Artificial Intelligence 'outsmarts cancer' - BBC News Early trial data shows a drug developed using artificial intelligence can slow the growth of cancer in clinical trials. The data, presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference, showed some tumours shrank by around a quarter. The compound will now be taken into more advanced trials.

Wall Street looks to AI for better hires Clinching a job on Wall Street may soon have as much to do with beating an algorithm as nailing an interview. Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citigroup and UBS Group are exploring the use of artificial intelligence software to judge applicants on traits − such as teamwork, curiosity and grit − that help in the workplace but don't always show up on a resume or come through in an interview.