Artificial Intelligence News Issue 9

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"Artificial Intelligence will be crucial for e-commerce" Most attractive apps of 2015. Jorge J. Rodríguez & Pablo Gutiérrez, founders of Converfit. Converfit. The app that has seduced Google and Microsoft Pablo Gutiérrez Alfaro. Converfit CEO. Converfit, a web analytics app developed by the Spanish startup Citious, has already enticed Google and Microsoft.

Will Artificial Intelligence Make a Smarter Digital Enterprise? Imagine a world where intelligent machines and humans work harmoniously together-where the whole of our work is greater than the sum of its parts. As you walk through today's manufacturing facilities, there is a clear segregation between robots and humans as industrial automation lives in cages or on separate lines away from their human worker counterparts.

Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Judea Pearl Wins Carnegie Mellon's Dickson Prize in Science BY Byron Spice - Carnegie Mellon University has awarded its 2015 Dickson Prize in Science to Judea Pearl, a computer scientist at UCLA who is internationally known for his contributions to artificial intelligence, human reasoning, causality and the philosophy of science.

Yes, Artificial Intelligence can be Profitable, Says Artificial Intelligence Startup You can say this for Diffbot: It's not shying away from a big challenge. The San Francisco startup, which just closed $10 million in Series A investment, wants to scrape all the data on the web ( all of it) to put it into a structured format, which thus makes it useful for all sorts of business purposes.

Autonomous Rescue Drones Navigate Forest Trails Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithm | CrazyEngineers A team of Swiss researchers have succeeded in teaching a drone how to spot and follow trails in forests. The quadcopter used by the team is equipped...

What I Learned Teaching a Course on Artificial Intelligence (and You Can, Too) I recently finished teaching a free, eight-week online course on artificial intelligence and cognitive technologies. Over 7,000 students registered for the course. Many of them were active participants in rich discussions throughout the eight weeks.

Would you MARRY a robot? Computer scientist says humans will form close relationships with robots Cloud computing could allow machines to become far more life-like Robots could become the 'perfect companion' for many people Experts predict people could even go to court in a bid to marry their robots While there are fears robots may rise up to take over the world if artificial intelligence progresses too quickly, some of us may find ourselves simply marrying machines in the future.

Diffbot Aims To Build The Intel Of Data For Artificial Intelligence With a new $10 million commitment led by Tencent, one of China's largest Internet companies, Diffbot chief executive Mike Tung has come a long way from his days of eating beans and rice in the dark and solving the math problems that would form the core of his groundbreaking artificial intelligence software.

How the Rest of Tech Is Playing Catch-Up to Facebook and Google in Artificial Intelligence Omelchenko / Shutterstock Facebook and Google are two of Silicon Valley's leaders in artificial intelligence. They have both invested heavily in AI, hiring loads of top researchers to develop projects like the Facebook Messenger "smart" assistant M, or Google's in-the-works AI-powered chatbot.

You Can't Invest in Artificial Intelligence Yet If you aren't up to speed on artificial intelligence (AI) yet, start here for a simple explanation of the technology. AI is immensely powerful and consequently it is a controversial topic. Steven Hawking has warned that AI "could spell the end of the human race".

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 8

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DARPA: Neural Implant Will Give Drones Human-Like Artificial Intelligence Will weapons with human-like intelligence aid soliders in warzones? By Tyler MacDonald | Feb 10, 2016 02:59 PM EST The Pentagon is currently putting money into the research and development of a tiny microchip called "Eyeriss," small enough to fit inside mobile devices, which possesses artificial intelligence on par with the human brain and will eventually be used on the battlefield, according to the Daily Mail.

Artificial intelligence and the future of hospitals Healthcare already has its hands full with rapid shifts in the status quo, but an even more dramatic change could be on the way: robotic doctors powered by artificial intelligence or AI. What sounds like science fiction is already poised to take other industries by storm in the form of innovations such as self-driving cars, according to The Conversation.

US Vehicle Safety Regulators To Consider Artificial Intelligence As Driver For Google Cars The driver will be considered under federal law.

How To Stop Worrying And Love Artificial Intelligence Are you in charge of your own future? Maybe not, a new book argues, but there's still an opportunity to change that. In Heartificial Intelligence, author John C. Havens introduces a realm of algorithms and smart machines well beyond anything you might know about.

This is why India is still not ready for Artificial Intelligence At a time when the global technology giants are set to leverage the benefits of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for your daily lives -- from taking care of businesses to fulfilling your personal needs -- India seems to be reluctant to get on to this bus.

Stop Calling it Artificial Intelligence Good user-experience design is all about setting proper expectations then meeting or exceeding them. When designing an interface that promises a taste of "artificial intelligence," we're basically screwed from the get-go.

Artificial intelligence could leave half the world unemployed, says expert Machines could put more than half the world's population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial intelligence's threat to the economy should not be understated.

Artificial intelligence startup Diffbot raises $10 million for ambitious project Palo Alto-based Diffbot has proclaimed itself the "leading arms dealer in coming AI wars" after raising $10 million in Series A funding. Diffbot has developed a robot that is working to organize information from all over the Web into the world's largest database of knowledge.

Why Consumers Need to Stop Fearing Artificial Intelligence - insideBIGDATA asserts that while AI and machine learning are often thought of as futuristic or set to support the rise of robots, many consumers would be surprised to learn that these technologies actually play a big part in their everyday lives.

Artificial Intelligence Better at Diagnosing Malaria than Conventional Methods Artificial Intelligence (AI) has also joined forces with the Gates foundation in its fight against Malaria, a mosquito-borne disease. MIT Technology Review reported that the research at Intellectual Venture Laboratory with the support from Bill and Malinda Gates formulated the algorithms that can detect Malaria's presence.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 7

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I'll have a supreme pizza with extra robots and artificial intelligence

Robots and artificial intelligence could be coming to a pizza store near you if ambitious new plans are realised. It's not the first sign of an impending fast-food-based apocalypse but the dream of Domino's Pizza Enterprises chief executive Don Meij on the launch of the company's start-up lab dedicated to pumping out new ideas.

Android creator Andy Rubin turns to artificial intelligence

2/09/2016 03:16:32 AM Eastern Rubin wants to create the standard building blocks-the basic quartermaster's inventory of components-for the AI-infused future. And he wants to open up this platform of hardware and software tools so that anyone, not just the companies he works with directly, can create an intelligent device.

Victory Networks to offer almax analytics Artificial Intelligence for capital markets

John Superson, Victory Networks "almax analytics helps solves the rapidly growing industry conundrum of Big Data management and processing." London - almax analytics, artificial intelligence for capital markets, has announced that Victory Networks, the managed services provider for all asset classes, has introduced Artificial Intelligence (AI) for news and insights to its market maker customer Sumo Capital.

Trade Ideas' Holly Re-shapes Artificial Intelligence for Retail Industry

ENCINITAS, CA: Trade Ideas has been delivering actionable market intelligence to yield confident decisions and lucrative outcomes in difficult markets since its very establishment. They have revamped their award-winning Trade Ideas Pro software and gears up to release of version 4 of the same software to address the crucial needs of the retail industry.

Artificial Intelligence Can Track Pollution Using Smartphone Photos From All Over the World

What if managing city smog were as simple as snapping a photo? Maybe it is. A new project called AirTick is using cellphone snaps to help scientists track air pollution. The project started with a fundamental question: How do we manage good air quality?

Artificial intelligence in the enterprise: It's on

After a long winter frozen in the technological permafrost, it's springtime again in the field of artificial intelligence. A.I. is poised to take off in 2016 as enterprises begin figuring some element of it into their application portfolios.

Exploring how artificial intelligence may support human interpretation of medical images

The application of artificial intelligence to our working and personal lives has been forecast for great expansion in 2016. Taking hold of this emerging development, the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) recently held a forum that brought together clinicians, academics and researchers from the worlds of computer science, mathematics and medicine.

How artificial intelligence is driving the next industrial revolution | Information Age

Print this page Email article If anyone needed evidence that the 'AI winter' is long over, they need only to look to the snowy mountain town of Davos this January. Convening for the World Economic Forum , along with important geo-political issues, the world's movers and shakers had the 'fourth industrial revolution' at the top of the agenda.

Pizza goes hi-tech

Robots and artificial intelligence could be coming to a pizza store near you if ambitious new plans in Brisbane are realised. It's not the first sign of an impending fast-food-based apocalypse but the dream of Domino's Pizza Enterprises chief executive Don Meij on the launch of the company's start-up lab dedicated to pumping out new ideas.

Faster Than Thought: DARPA, Artificial Intelligence, & The Third Offset Strategy

ARLINGTON: The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing artificial intelligence that can help humans understand the floods of data they unleashed 50 years ago with the Internet and make better decisions, even in the heat of battle.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 6

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Artificial Intelligence and Neural Nets on Small GPUs - DZone IoT

The IoT Zone is brought to you in partnership with ThingWorx. Explore the ThingWorx Developer Zone and learn how to rapidly develop IoT applications. Lately we've heard a lot about convolutional neural networks which are large virtual networks of simple processing units.

Why US tech giants are buying British AI start-ups

One reason behind the success, experts suggest, is the talent that is born out of the UK's top universities Oxford and Cambridge. Both founders of Swiftkey, Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds, were ex-students at Cambridge. DeepMind's acquisitions were both from Oxford University. And the continuing success of UK AI start-ups is also breeding more companies.

Artificial Intelligence in special education

Using social technologies to design therapies for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Is Making Progress In Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft's AI program XiaoIce constantly analyzes the user's emotional state to simulate personal conversations. XiaoIce combines facts and data in Microsoft's Bing search engine with recent advances in natural language processing. XiaoIce has had more than 10 billion conversations with people, most of them about private matters.

Artificial Intelligence: Powering Healthcare's Future

Computers that analyze data faster than humans are transforming healthcare from detailed diagnosis reports to customized weight-loss plans.

Trade Ideas Outperforms S&P with Big Data and Artificial Intelligence

Encinitas, CA (PRWEB) February 08, 2016 This week, Trade Ideas announced the production release of version 4 of its award-winning Trade Ideas Pro software. The release shakes up the Financial Technology community with its A.I. powered Investment Discovery Engine.

Victory Networks To Offer almax Analytics, Artificial Intelligence For News And Insights In Capital Markets

Chicago and New York based tech provider for CME Group, Nasdaq, CBOE, Goldman Sachs, BATS, NYSE, ABN AMRO, Bank of America Merrill Lynch and Proprietary Trading Funds will deploy Predictive Analytics for Equities. The testing and deployment will be covered in a six month series as "roll-out "of a first to market FinTech with leading Financial Market and Big Data publications.

AI's Biggest Danger Is So Subtle, You Might Not Even Notice It

The rise of artificial intelligence has been met with reactionary fears of robots taking over. We've all seen the movies. What's left out of this conversation is a more practical threat. We should be concerned that AI will be hijacked, not by rogue computers out to destroy mankind, but by people with ulterior motives.

Artificial Intelligence Market Growing at 53.65% CAGR to 2022

PUNE, India, Feb 09, 2016 (PR Newswire Europe via COMTEX) -- PUNE, India, February 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The artificial intelligence (A.I.) market is estimated to grow from USD 419.7 million in 2014 to USD 5.05 billion by 2020, at a CAGR of 53.65% from 2015 to 2020 due to factors such as diversified application areas, improved productivity, and increased customer satisfaction.

What does artificial intelligence see when it watches political ads?

Two weeks ago, the Internet Archive launched its new Political TV Ad Archive, which monitors television stations in 20 markets in eight U.S. states to compile a list of 2016 primary-election advertisements and uses audio fingerprinting algorithms to automatically flag every airing of those spots. [Who are all those smiling people in campaign advertisements?]

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 5

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PatternEx Launches Company With First Artificial Intelligent Security Analyst

Unique Artificial Intelligence Solution That Leverages Analyst Intuition to Predict Existing and Emerging Cyber Attacks in Real Time With 10 Times Better Detection Rates and 5 Times Fewer False Positives SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwired - February 03, 2016) - PatternEx™, the pioneer in Artificial Intelligence for information security, today launched the company and its PatternEx Threat Prediction Platform that creates "virtual security analysts" that mimic the intuition of human security analysts in real time and at scale.

Meet the Australian startup using artificial intelligence to help blind people see

The first time people use Australian startup Aipoly - an app which helps blind people to see the world using artificial intelligence - they often cry. Created by entrepreneurs Marita Cheng, Alberto Rizzoli and Simon Edwardsson, the Aipoly app uses an AI algorithm to near-instantaneously identify an object when a smartphone is held over it and say what it is out loud.

In Other News: A Guy Created an Artificial Intelligence Bot to Torture Telemarketers | Valdosta Today

Remember when the "Do Not Call" list came out, and it was supposed to stop telemarketers? Until they figured out how to get around it? Well, guy named Roger Anderson figured out a way to get around the get around, kind of. It's called the Jolly Roger Telephone Co.

Swiftkey deal highlights gulf in artificial intelligence world - FT.com

Beware the AI gap. Thanks to advances in areas such as machine learning, artificial intelligence is quickly coming to be seen as one of the most important new general-purpose technologies: something that can be used to enhance the output of almost

Why Microsoft Corporation Open-Sourced Its Artificial-Intelligence

( Microsoft NASDAQ:MSFT) recently open-sourced CNTK (Computation Network Toolkit), its artificial-intelligence framework that powers Cortana and Skype's speech-recognition engines. This means that anyone can now view, modify, or use Microsoft's code in their own software. CNTK is a framework for "deep learning", which helps machines understand human speech and recognize images by imitating the functions of a human brain.

2016 MIT Tech Conference: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence

Feb. 5, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- What role will Artificial Intelligence play in your daily life ten years from now? In what direction do researchers and companies see it moving? Will Artificial General Intelligence someday replace business executives? And how will AI redefine ethics and rights?

Google's DeepMind Artificial Intelligence Develops Algorithm, Enabling It To Navigate A 3D Maze

Google is taking the machine learning of its DeepMind artificial intelligence to a whole new level - by placing it directly in a whole new space. Having already developed algorithms to learn from 2D video games, DeepMind has now developed a new algorithm, giving it the ability to navigate through 3D mazes, as reported by PopSci.com.

Superwealthy are ALREADY using robo advisors to manage their stocks

Small investors and financial giants alike are now turning to robo-advisors These AI services use computer programs to generate advice for clients One study estimates that these services could manage $2.2 trillion by 2020 Would you trust your finances in the hands of a robo-advisor?

Artificial Intelligence in Business: 10 Important Statistics

Artificial intelligence is a growing trend in the business world. The IBM Watson Partner Ecosystem, for instance, allows companies to tap into the power of Watson for fields as varied as healthcare and education. In addition, the Amazon Echo Developer Network allows you to add voice functionality to connected devices and enhance Alexa's skills.

Your only choice is to build better artificial intelligence tech than others: Brad Templeton

The networks and computing chair at Singularity University on driverless cars, the perceived threat from intelligent machines and censorship of the Internet It is not easy to slot Brad Templeton.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 4

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Will Artificial Intelligence have an Uber Effect on Finance?

Following the recent breakthrough of artificial intelligence (AI), many have been wondering how this form of technology can be implemented in the financial services. As newer products emerge, it questions how popular the traditional legacy financial institutions will remain or perhaps, fintech startups will gain an increased number of customers, in a similar way to how Uber affected the taxi industry.

Robotics and artificial intelligence specialists to descend on Dubai

Dubai: Specialists in the field of robotics and artificial intelligence will take part in the UAE Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Award for Good to be held at Dubai Internet City on Friday and Saturday. The judging panel will evaluate 20 teams from the UAE and around the world who have made it to the semi-finals of the National and International Competitions of the award.

Meet Viv: the AI that wants to read your mind and run your life

So I've arrived late at the office of Viv, an artificial intelligence company based in San Jose, California. I missed my train from San Francisco after dawdling leaving my apartment and then finding the taxi service app on my phone wouldn't work. Dag Kittlaus, who I've kept waiting, looks on the bright side.

How To Take Advantage Of Hedge Funds' Artificial Intelligence Strategy

Computerized trading systems, even those labeled 'Artificial Intelligence,

Technologist warns 'super artificial intelligence' needs ethical parameters - Feb. 1, 2016 (2/3)

What happens when our computers get smarter than we are? Nick Bostrom says we better think long and hard about that now, before a new era of super intelligent machines rise up.

Artificial Intelligence Helps The World Of E-Commerce

Artificial intelligence is starting to have an impact in the world of e-commerce. The IRP Commerce platform based in the Northern Ireland Science Park has developed an artificial intelligence (AI) engine called DeepAgent. PayPal has implementing deep learning artificial intelligence in order to deal with cybersecurity.

Artificial intelligence has potential to shape fate of humanity, says Nick Bostrom

Read story transcript It's predicted that sometime in the next 25 years, artificial intelligence machines will match - and in some ways - surpass human intelligence. The potential ripple effects of that are staggering. Corporations and governments are now spending billions of dollars on developing bigger and smarter A.I. technology.

IBM: Big Data Is The Means To Artificial Intelligence

Big data presents fascinating possibilities for technology and business, but according to IBM cloud architect and evangelist Raghavan Srinivas, the traditional approach to big data collection and analysis, hypothesis and testing, is outdated and impractical. "You really want to analyze data in motion, as it's generated," Srinivas said.

Artificial Intelligence: A Disruptive Tech

As we look into the crystal ball of a new year we find some prominent tech trends in the consumer marketplace that are also stimulating innovation and transformation in the corporate world. Virtual reality, 3D printing, drones, wearables, big data, the Internet of Things (IoT) and connected devices are impacting manufacturing and sectors ranging from the enterprise, healthcare, cities, transportation, retail, education and other businesses.

Energy-friendly chip can perform powerful artificial-intelligence tasks

In recent years, some of the most exciting advances in artificial intelligence have come courtesy of convolutional neural networks, large virtual networks of simple information-processing units, which are loosely modeled on the anatomy of the human brain. Neural networks are typically implemented using graphics processing units (GPUs), special-purpose graphics chips found in all computing devices with screens.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 3

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easyJet planning to make the most of artificial intelligence

By Ryan Ghee The announcement by easyJet towards the end of 2015 that it had appointed its first Head of Data Science served to highlight the importance of artificial intelligence (AI) to the airline industry. For many, AI brings to mind voice recognition software on smartphones or computers that can outwit human competition when gaming.

MSU professor brings new type of artificial intelligence to world of video games

An MSU professor has developed a revolutionary new type of artificial intelligence (AI), and he's bringing it to the world of video games for its first real-world application. Dr. Arend Hintze, assistant professor for integrative biology and computer science and engineering at MSU, has developed a new form of AI that can adapt and learn over time through a process similar to Darwinian evolution.

Tech Trek: What's Up With Artificial Intelligence? - Rookie

It sometimes feels like we're sitting around waiting for Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) to "happen." I think, unconsciously, most of us are expecting a big, earth-shattering moment when a fully articulated robot is revealed-one that looks and sounds human. TA-DA! A.I. has arrived! Except, surprise! A.I. is already here.

How Enterprises Can Make The Most Of Artificial Intelligence Technology

Organisations are feeling the pressure to remain competitive and are turning to new technologies to give themselves an extra edge. There has been a lot of discussion around artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent automation, but how can companies incorporate them into their existing businesses in order to stay ahead of the pack?

Slack Focuses on Artificial Intelligence With Hire of Foursquare Executive

Slack Technologies Inc. on Tuesday announced Noah Weiss would join the company to lead its Search, Learning and Intelligence group, signaling the company is investing more in artificial intelligence that could speed up daily tasks in the workplace. The fast-growing enterprise messaging service hired Mr. Weiss from Foursquare, where he served as vice president of product.

Ads are about to get way more personal thanks to AI

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in advertising is set to grow, a top marketing chief told CNBC, as brands look at new ways to target and engage consumers. AI is in its infancy when it comes to advertising but a handful of companies are trialing the technology and are bullish on its potential.

Artificial intelligence: the Internet of Things really is on its way

I believe that historians in 2100 will look back on our century as the age of the two singularities. The word "singularity" is used in maths and physics to mean a point where change has become so rapid that the normal rules no longer apply.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Game of chess inspired human to invent Artificial Intelligence. The history of chess goes back as long as that of artificial intelligence's. Centuries before the invention of the computer, the dream of the "Thinking Machine" was linked to the game. It all began with a deception. The first artificial intelligence (AI) was a lie.

Artificial Intelligence And Video Games: How A New AI System From Michigan State University Makes Games Better

A researcher from Michigan State University has created an artificial intelligence system that will let video games adapt to a player's behavior to make games more challenging. Traditional AI systems are restricted to instructions but this new system, created by assistant professor Arend Hintze, gets more intelligent as gamers play and the system gathers more data.

Prospect of artificial intelligence triggers ethical concerns | West California News

A computer's recent victory over the human brain in a complex strategy game called "Go" is being applauded by proponents of artificial intelligence, but the prospect of artificial intelligence has also triggered some ethical concerns.