Artificial Intelligence News Issue 16

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Facebook donates servers to speed up artificial intelligence research | ET Telecom BERLIN: Facebook announced on Thursday it was donating computer servers to a number of research institutions across Europe, starting with Germany, to accelerate research efforts into artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning.

Pond5 Brings Artificial Intelligence To Prosumers The below-the-surface businesses, like Pond5, the video/audio stock footage outfit, interest me because they often see opportunities others don't seem to notice. For example, with the proliferation of video comes a bigger need for speed. It is a great time to be in the video clips business because now they're being used in TV shows and movies, streaming videos and by thousands of YouTube creators.

Artificial intelligence created by Estonians solved American science exam | University of Tartu Institute of Estonian and General Linguistics

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Scientists Ponder How to Create Artificial Intelligence That Won't Destroy Us The creators of artificially intelligent machines are often depicted in popular fiction as myopic Dr. Frankensteins who are oblivious to the apocalyptic technologies they unleash upon the world. In real life, they tend to wring their hands over the big questions: good versus evil and the impact the coming wave of robots and machine brains will have on human workers.

The Promise of Artificial Intelligence Unfolds in Small Steps When IBM 's Watson computer triumphed over human champions in the quiz show "Jeopardy!" it was a stunning achievement that suggested limitless horizons for artificial intelligence. Soon after, IBM's leaders moved to convert Watson from a celebrated science project into a moneymaking business, starting with health care.

Inside the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: A Special Report, Pt. 1 Welcome to robot nursery school," Pieter Abbeel says as he opens the door to the Robot Learning Lab on the seventh floor of a sleek new building on the northern edge of the UC-Berkeley campus. The lab is chaotic: bikes leaning against the wall, a dozen or so grad students in disorganized cubicles, whiteboards covered with indecipherable equations.

How artificial intelligence could radically transform education Artificial intelligence should be used to provide children with one-to-one tutoring to improve their learning and monitor their well-being, academics have argued. One-to-one tutoring has long been thought the most-effective approach to teaching but would be too expensive to provide for all students.

What counts as artificially intelligent? AI and deep learning, explained (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Artificial intelligence seems to have become ubiquitous in the technology industry. AIs, we're told, are replying to our emails on Gmail, learning how to drive our cars, and sorting our holiday photos. Mark Zuckerberg is even building one to help out around the house.

How the DJI Phantom 4 Uses Artificial Intelligence | cinema5D Yesterday DJI released the new Phantom 4 drone that marks a significant upgrade in terms of a consumer drone's artificial intelligence. Here's how DJI's new "toy" uses depth maps & machine learning to understand its surroundings.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 15

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Artificial Intelligence: Five Highly Anticipated Developments If you browse through news and discussions related to artificial intelligence (AI) over the past year, you will observe diverse opinions being peddled across the AI spectrum- some predict an overtly pessimistic scenario for humanity while others heap plaudits on the technological developments in the field.

Legal Analysis Finds Judges Have No Idea What Robots Are The last judge-ordered beheading in the United States occurred in 1981, US District Judge Charles Brieant announced that the "dismantling of Walter Ego's head and torso will be required." This wasn't some act of government-endorsed brutality, however. Walter Ego was a robot entertainer that was suspiciously similar to a competing robot named Rodney.

Jayne: Issue much more complex than 'Apple bad, FBI good' Being painfully aware of my many limitations, it didn't take long to realize that I am not smart enough to fully understand the kerfuffle between the FBI and Apple. You know, the one in which the federal government has asked the technology giant to break into an iPhone.

Google teaching its AI to predict next sentences of famous dead authors Google is working on developing smarter AI (artificial intelligence) systems which will be able to understand natural language based on connotation and personality traits of the speaker. The tech giant is currently teaching its AI to recognise and predict the works of famous dead authors.

AI learns to predict human reactions by reading our fiction "Over many millions of words, these mundane patterns [of people's reactions] are far more common than their dramatic counterparts," the team wrote in their study. "Characters in modern fiction turn on the lights after entering rooms; they react to compliments by blushing; they do not answer their phones when they are in meetings."

How Mashable is using artificial intelligence to shape stories From New Look to Google, artificial intelligence is increasingly featuring in the plans of forward-thinking brands, and according to new media darlings Mashable, AI should now be in the thoughts of publishers too.

Google's artificial intelligence unit enters healthcare via medical apps Alphabet-owned Google DeepMind is expanding its artificial intelligence capabilities from playing the complex board game Go to enabling patient monitoring and optimal treatment. The London-based company is piloting two apps at area hospitals under its just-launched division, DeepMind Health.

DeepMind's Artificial Intelligence Knows Where You Were Last Summer MIT Technology Review gives us yet another insight into Google's complex network of Artificial (AI), DeepMind. The AI system has a new ability which determines where a picture is taken, anywhere in the world. A computer vision specialist at Google, Tobias Weyand, has trained DeepMind's neural networks to calculate the location of any photo by using image pixels.

Dive Into the Artificial Intelligence Revolution at the GPU Technology Conference Deep learning changes everything. And our GPU Technology Conference will cover almost every aspect of it. Deep learning - which couples the parallel processing capabilities of GPUs with the vast quantities of data unleashed by the internet - has unlocked a new generation of artificial intelligence applications.

Ridley Scott And Carrie Fisher Help IBM Make Artificial Intelligence A Bit Less Scary The bulk of our impressions of artificial intelligence are based on how it's portrayed in movies. From Blade Runner to The Terminator to Ex Machina to Avengers: Age of Ultron, it's clear the only inevitable path to the impending robot apocalypse will be dark, brooding, and disastrous. Right? Maybe.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 14

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Artificial Intelligence Is Here To Change Your Life Take a second to think about the smartphone in your pocket. When you were born, the idea of such a small, powerful computer was a sci-fi dream -- and now these devices are everywhere, transforming personal health, relationships and business transactions so completely that life without them seems impossible.

Artificial intelligence startup MedyMatch launches, former Philips exec tapped as CEO Israel-based artificial intelligence startup MedyMatch Technology has launched with an artificial intelligence product that it hopes will improve performance in healthcare through its real-time decision support tools. MedyMatch also announced earlier this month that former Philips Imaging Systems CEO Gene Saragnese joined the company as chairman and CEO.

The Irony of Artificial Intelligence Solving Online Dating Frustrations I have had many articles published about dating, and a topic that seems to reboot quite frequently is the frustration with technology and its growing consequences on our lives and in our relationships. While there are many upsides to our accessibility for instant news, communication, and gratification, there is always a flip side.

Artificial Intelligence: Ten things you need to understand The history of artificial intelligence dates back into antiquity - intelligent robots appear in the myths of many ancient societies, including Greek, Arabic, Egyptian and Chinese. Today, the field is more vibrant than ever and some believe that we're on the threshold of discoveries that could change human society irreversibly, for better or worse.

Artificial Intelligence to be a $5.05 Billion Industry by 2020 PR Newswire has shared insight regarding artificial intelligence's global market growth forecast for 2015-2020. By 2020, the market is expected to grow up to $5.05 billion from $419.7 million in 2014. Currently, the major sources of revenue for AI are advertising, finance, and retail, but in the coming years the use will expand to all kind of fields such as healthcare, military, and aerospace.

Artificial Intelligence Helps Identify Cancer Cells While artificial intelligence may be making headlines in terms of robotics, its possibilities are also being explored in fields such as medicine which, although perhaps not Hollywood movie-friendly, are likely to have a significant impact on people's lives. Take for example the research conducted by an international team of scientists which uses machine learning to identify different kinds of cells.

Virtual Reality, Artificial Intelligence and the Internet: The Catalyst, The Glue and The Transit System If the first few months are any indication, 2016 will be remembered amongst technologists as the year of Virtual Reality (VR) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). VR and AI have quickly reached Kardashian-esque levels, surrounded by a seemingly constant swirl of industry news, gossip and speculation.

Vanderbilt Law To Host Conference With Top Minds in Artificial Intelligence | Business Wire The top minds in artificial intelligence will come together April 13-14 at Vanderbilt Law School to speak about the impact of artificial intelligence

Google's Artificial Intelligence Development Expands To Smart Image Location February 28, 2016 @ 8:44 AM Google is a tech giant with deep links with supercomputers, artificial intelligence and more prominently with computer algorithms - so much so that it is now a verb (and not only a division of Alphabet Inc.)

The flawed IQ of artificial intelligence It was 18 years ago that a computer finally managed to beat the best human player of chess. That was a program called Deep Blue, which defeated then world champion Garry Kasparov. Kasparov recently wrote an article in the New York Review of Books, speaking about his defeat.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 13

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Can you solve the 'hat riddle' set by Google in job interviews? A riddle used during job interviews for Google has proven to be no problem for artificial intelligence. A team from the University of Oxford, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and Google's DeepMind created an AI called "deep distrubted recurrent Q-networks" to tackle the "100 hats riddle".

If we are better educated then we will be able to resist the rise of the machines "Poof", replied Mary Midgley, crunching into a biscuit, when I asked if robots could meditate or write poetry. The whole idea of AI (artificial intelligence) is confused, the eminent 96-year-old philosopher continued, pointing out that self-driving cars may be made useful, even potentially life-saving, by being modelled in some ways on human agents, but they don't thereby become quasi-people.

Seeing is believing After decades of research into artificial vision, scientists are on the brink of developing next-generation robots. Michael Milford outlines the technological successes that are enabling robots to learn how to use sight in the same way humans do HUMAN BEINGS SPAN the globe.

Artificial intelligence needs your data, all of it The artificial intelligence revolution is clearly happening. And it's super exciting. A.I. will transform medicine, give us all super-smart virtual assistants, fight crime and a thousand things more. But there's a catch. In order for A.I. to work its miracles, it's going to need data. Massive amounts of data.

Acer Showcases BYOC Solutions for Connected Car, Business, Education, and Smart Home at Mobile World Congress 2016 Acer is showcasing its latest BYOC (Build Your Own Cloud™) developments at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona, in the fields of connected car, smart home, business, and education. SAN JOSE, Calif. (PRWEB) February 22, 2016 Acer is showcasing its latest BYOC (Build Your Own Cloud™) developments at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2016 in Barcelona, in the fields of connected car, smart home, business, and education.

Artificial intelligence to control the power grid in Riedholz Media Release: 23.02.2016 10:00 GridSense learns user behaviour with artificial intelligence. Together with the Canton of Solothurn, the four companies Adaptricity, AEK, Alpiq, and Landis+Gyr are investigating how the energy flow in a power distribution grid can be optimised and controlled through artificial intelligence in the town of Riedholz.

Hike plans to use artificial intelligence to beat WhatsApp Kavin Mittal has a theme: apps will go the way of compact disks (CDs). They will be obsolete within the next year. He argues that the price of smartphones might be dropping, but real estate on the memory card remains small and valuable.

Information, communication key to federal customer service The Education Department's Federal Student Aid employees keep an eye on students headed toward default. In some states, people can register online for a replacement Social Security card. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has Emma, a virtual assistant with artificial intelligence, who helps applicants who are literally and figuratively lost in translation.

Why artificial intelligence is ready for utilities By Matt Gould Imagine a platform that frees your operations experts from the shackles of data overload and meticulous reporting they suffer from on a daily basis. Fortunately, such a platform now exists and it's powered by a new type of artificial intelligence called natural language generation (NLG).

A Personal Shopper at Your Fingertips: How Reflektion is Tapping Artificial Intelligence to Revolutionize E-Commerce - Powered by Battery Reflektion-which delivers innovative "individualized commerce" technology for retailers-recently announced it has raised $18 million in Series B financing led by Battery Ventures. Here, Powered by Battery chats with CEO Sean Moran about the how the company is aiming to transform digital retail, partly by leveraging new types of artificial-intelligence technologies.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 12

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Artificial Intelligence - The Cognitive Era Artificial Intelligence involves the science and engineering of developing intelligent machines. Industry approach to Artificial Intelligence has moved away from developing merely intelligent devices. Technology companies and researchers across the world have now set an ambitious goal of developing Artificial Intelligence solutions that are not just intelligent in terms of decisions taken, but can also learn from data - like humans do.

Best GoodReads quotes on Artificial Intelligence (and some related stats, videos) Quotes , Artificial Intelligence GoodReads is an incredible tool for finding great quotes and links to great books. Here are some about Artificial Intelligence. I have read most of the books linked here, btw:) Related: Artificial Intelligence in Business: 10 Important Statistics "By far the greatest danger of Artificial Intelligence is that people conclude too early that they understand it."

Facebook is teaching its AI to read 'Alice in Wonderland' and it has amazing potential for the future Learning to read "Alice in Wonderland" may be the key to teaching machines to understanding the way we speak. At least that is the tactic Facebook is using to impove the language capabilities of M, the company's virtual assistance. Facebook began testing M in October, and the early reports of it were ecstatic.

United Nations CITO: Artificial intelligence will be humanity's final innovation - TechRepublic The United Nations Chief Information Technology Officer spoke with TechRepublic about the future of cybersecurity, social media, and how to fix the internet and build global technology for social good. Artificial intelligence, said United Nations chief information technology officer Atefeh Riazi, might be the last innovation humans create.

This medical company created an online calculator that uses AI to guess your age and sex As artificial intelligence improves, its applications are starting to show up in surprising places. For example, a new website from medical startup Insilico Medicine, Inc. wants to use AI to guess how old you are. The site, Aging.ai, uses an artificially intelligent algorithm to analyze common blood markers like glucose and cholesterol.

Robots Can Now Flawlessly Iron Clothes GIF: YouTube Somewhere on the laundry list of things that humans can do easily and robots totally suck at it handling clothes. A shirt isn't a rigid object like a coffee cup, for example, which robots can quite easily handle; folding and ironing one requires some seriously advanced on the fly computing.

Upcoming Events MIT Tech Conference: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence " Back to Calendar Businesses have only recently begun harnessing the power of the innovation done in big data, cloud computing, and Internet of Things. And now, Artificial Intelligence is poised to shatter the paradigm by which we live, work, and interact.

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Agile Data Security What keeps you up at night? Ponemon Institute recently presented the report "The State of Data Security Intelligence." The report asked "What keeps IT practitioners up at night?" Not knowing where sensitive or confidential data is located is their biggest worry, according to 64 percent of respondents.

IBM Watson Partners With XPRIZE To Inspire AI Evolution For Humanity... Only February 20, 2016 @ 7:19 PM Just last month, a report from the World Economic Forum shared a spine-chilling prediction-the rise of the machines courtesy of the fourth industrial revolution-but it won't kill anyone (like those you see in movies), it'll just take jobs from unsuspecting people, some of which work for less than $20 or so per hour and others hold high positions with adequate pay.

Why Are Digital Assistants Like Siri Given Female Voices? CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- An interesting question came up Saturday at the MIT Tech Conference on artificial intelligence: "Why are most 'serving' machines given female voices?" The query, which was asked anonymously via the app Pigeonhole, came up during a discussion on "Life in 2025."

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 11

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M*Modal's Cloud-Based Artificial Intelligence Is Widely Adopted by Physicians to Improve Patient Care - M*Modal Franklin, TN - February 16, 2016 - M*Modal, a leading provider of clinical documentation and Speech Understanding™ solutions, today announced that its ground-breaking clinical intelligence has been broadly embraced by physicians in over 150 sites since the launch of the application in 2015.

Storytelling may be the secret to creating ethical artificial intelligence | ExtremeTech One of the more disturbing trends in robotics is how often some researchers gloss over the moral complexities of AI by suggesting Isaac Asimov's " Three Laws of Robotics " will be sufficient to handle any ambiguities robots encounter.

DailyDirt: Uncanny Artificial Intelligence | Techdirt Human intelligence is about to be bested by computers playing the game of Go, and software already soundly defeats people at games like chess and specific variations of poker. If we're trying to keep our smug superiority, people are still better than AI at MMORPGs and a few other skills...

This New Artificial Intelligence Script-Reading Program Could Find Your Next Oscar Role During his 12 years in UTA's story department, Scott Foster estimates he read about 5,500 screenplays. "Even if it was the worst script ever, I had to read it cover to cover," he says.

IBM To Hold $5 Million Watson Artificial Intelligence Contest IBM has a new plan to popularize its Watson cognitive computing technology. The business technology giant said on Tuesday at the TED conference in Vancouver, British Columbia that it will hold a $5 million competition for developers and researchers who can come up with something revolutionary while using Watson as the underlying technology.

The Missing Link of Artificial Intelligence We don't know how to make software that learns without explicit instruction-but we need to if dreams of humanlike AI are to come true. In 2012 the world learned of a surprising research project inside Google's secretive X lab.

Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Intelligence - The NonProfit Times A concept that would have seemed like nothing more than an oxymoron not too long ago is now one that is commonly used: Artificial Intelligence (AI). Considering what passes for intelligence in much of the world, the artificial kind can look rather appealing, but like any trend it can carry its own drawbacks.

Using Artificial Intelligence to optimize business processes | Blog post I've worked with a number of large companies, both as an IT consultant and now in the Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) space, and the challenge remains the same: find new ways to generate year-over-year savings. And while BPO has been incredibly effective in driving out costs and delivering new business value, organizations are still looking for that next level of savings.

The Grid: Web Design by Artificial Intelligence As mentioned last year, I'm working on a Artificial Intelligence that can do web design. It is called The Grid. Last week I gave a talk at Lift Conference explaining how it all works.

Is AI Next in FX? - Markets Media nbsp AI may soon be coming to FX. That's not a sci-fi program announcement. The electronic foreign exchange trading platforms of 2016 are light years ahead of the earliest iterations of a few decades ago, the most advanced of which matched orders via a screen, perhaps using an algorithm that by today's standards would be kindly described as rudimentary.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 10

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EdTech: From Virtual Reality To Artificial Intelligence, B-Schools Embrace Digital Innovation HBX beams professors from a state-of-the-art TV studio to learners' screens Imagine if you attended your next finance class in a virtual reality through 3D goggles. Or if you networked with alumni through an avatar of your likeness projected onto your laptop.

Gaming chip is helping raise your computer's IQ Facebook, Google and Microsoft are tapping the power of a vintage computer gaming chip to raise your smartphone's IQ with artificially intelligent programs that recognize faces and voices, translate conversations on the fly and make searches faster and more accurate.

A.I. and Technology Convergence Unexpected convergent consequences... this is what happens when eight different exponential technologies all explode onto the scene at once. This blog (the second of seven) is a look at artificial intelligence. Future blogs will look at other tech areas. An expert might be reasonably good at predicting the growth of a single exponential technology (e.g.

Paul Gilster: Google's AlphaGo shows promise of artificial intelligence If you like old and complex things as much as I do, Chinese culture has much to offer. The I Ching is said by some to be the world's oldest book, dating back perhaps 5,000 years. And the game of Go is the oldest board game still played, though only half the age of the I Ching.

'Heartificial Intelligence' finds the human in the machine "Heartificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines" By John C. Havens (TarcherPerigree, 267pp, $17) As a holdout who still reads books, newspapers and magazines on paper, I need to explain I'm no Luddite. Rather, I genuinely love the heft of a book, tearing out an article from a newspaper and the glossy feel of magazines.

The superhero of artificial intelligence: can this genius keep it in check? Demis Hassabis has a modest demeanour and an unassuming countenance, but he is deadly serious when he tells me he is on a mission to "solve intelligence, and then use that to solve everything else". Coming from almost anyone else, the statement would be laughable; from him, not so much.

MIT To Host Artificial Intelligence Conference CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is holding a conference on the future of artificial intelligence that includes some of the field's biggest names. Among the keynote speakers at Saturday's conference at the MIT Media Lab are author and futurist Ray Kurzweil and IBM Watson Vice President and CTO Rob High.

Where Artificial Intelligence Is Now and What's Just Around the Corner - Singularity HUB 11,805 12 Unexpected convergent consequences...this is what happens when eight different exponential technologies all explode onto the scene at once. This post (the second of seven) is a look at artificial intelligence. Future posts will look at other tech areas.

Who's in charge of AI in the enterprise? Artificial intelligence (AI) is starting to disrupt the workplace as applications powered by machine-learning algorithms begin to permeate enterprises at every level. Just who's doing that disrupting - and to whom do they report? Data scientists, business architects and quantitative analysts (also known as quants) are most often the professionals exploiting the burgeoning technology - sometimes under the mantel of the IT department, but often not.

Researcher awarded prize for work on artificial intelligence 15 February 2016 A computer science researcher from the University of the Strathclyde in Scotland, UK, has gained recognition for his PhD research into artificial intelligence. From interpreting huge streams of data at CERN, piloting autonomous vehicles, or predicting medical conditions such as heart failure - artificial intelligence and other sub-fields such as machine learning offer possible solutions for some of the most complex challenges facing the scientific community.