Artificial Intelligence News Issue 39

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Can You Squeeze Real Value from Artificial Intelligence? It's 1985 and I'm at UCLA, attending my very first International Joint Conference on artificial intelligence. As a young researcher tasked with pioneering AI in my corporate research lab, this is an exciting opportunity. We are at the very peak of the AI hype curve. This is no ordinary academic conference.

Is artificial intelligence smartphone marketing's salvation or its undoing? While artificial intelligence has the potential to enhance the smartphone's role as a marketing platform through highly relevant one-to-one services, it could also eliminate the need for a phone to enable engagements as the technology evolves. Interest in artificial intelligence has taken off as the technology comes of age and brands recognize the potential to deliver one-to-one experiences.

Demystifying artificial intelligence Computers do what we tell them to do. Period. Any talk of computers doing things they weren't programmed to do is only a way of speaking. It's a convenient shorthand when used properly, misleading mysticism when used improperly.

Computers Gone Wild: Impact and Implications of Developments in Artificial Intelligence on Society | Berkman Center The second "Computers Gone Wild: Impact and Implications of Developments in Artificial Intelligence on Society" workshop took place on February 19, 2016 at Harvard Law School. Marin Soljačić, Max Tegmark, Bruce Schneier, and Jonathan Zittrain convened this informal workshop to discuss recent advancements in artificial intelligence research.

Infosys joins artificial intelligence gold rush; hunts for Silicon Valley supercoders | ETtech India's second largest software exporter Infosys is putting its might behind some of the biggest futuristic bets that the company is making, such as its newest artificial intelligence platform MANA, and putting key leaders in charge of developing these products, amid a scramble to hire top talent from the world's biggest tech hub, the Silicon Valley.

Artificial Intelligence Explodes At Investment, Enterprise Levels In the past half-decade, artificial intelligence has gone from the stuff of science fiction to components of major factory floors, cognitive technology expert Neil Jacobstein said at a Singularity University event in Boston Tuesday. Jacobstein chairs the AI & Robotics department at Singularity, the tech-driven benefit corporation that includes the likes of Google, Cisco and Deloitte among its founders.

Can Artificial Intelligence Help Government Serve Citizens? Wisconsin CIO David Cagigal thinks every time a citizen interacts with government, it should make government smarter.

A new day is coming in healthcare, where AI will help diagnose and treat disease, research new therapies, and make sure patients are compliant with treatment. In 2013 Jeopardy! fans were blown away as IBM's supercomputer WATSON wiped the floor with longtime champion Ken Jennings. Now WATSON HEALTH AI is being used in 16 cancer institutes across the country, helping to diagnose and treat patients. Meanwhile Google, not to be outdone, has launched DeepMind, which recently earned the title world champion of the complex game of Go.

Artificial Intelligence for the Next War The titans of tech don't talk about it, but entrepreneurial Silicon Valley was built on government spending, in particular Defense Department funding for things like radar, semiconductors and what became the Internet. Everybody was happy about that. Now maybe the Valley is returning the favor, building out the future of defense.

Lola's Booking Experiment Mixing Artificial Intelligence and Travel Agents Is Live Many travel agencies are working to better integrate mobile messaging into the travel booking process for clients. But a new service from online travel veterans is looking to take a technology-first approach to providing concierge-like service in the online travel booking space.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 38

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The next AI is no AI Artificial Intelligence is starting to turn invisible from the outside in - and vice versa. The exact effects and workings of AI technologies are becoming more challenging to perceive and comprehend for humans. Even the experts themselves don't always fully understand how an AI system operates.

Video: Meet the AI That Will Kill Siri and Order Pizza for You Hey, iPhone users, are you tired of Siri not being able to do much besides pull up search results? No need to despair: The team behind Siri has recently built Viv, a virtual assistance with actual artificial intelligence. This means users can talk to the virtual assistant more like a human and less like a robot.

Automation set to be vital part of new economy In the fourth industrial revolution, the quality of a business' results will depend on the quality of automation technology that is being used to help manage the business and strengthen its impact on the company, market and environment ("Dealing with AI and job displacement"; Monday).. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The Guardian view on artificial intelligence: look out, it's ahead of you | Editorial Google artificial intelligence project DeepMind is building software to trawl through millions of patient records from three NHS hospitals to detect early signs of kidney disease. The project raises deep questions not only about data protection but about the ethics of artificial intelligence. But these are not the obvious questions about the ethics of autonomous, intelligent computers.

Artificial Intelligence Evolution: Future AI Technologies To Make AI Obsolete And Intertwine Physical, Digital Realities? Did you know that the future of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies could invisibly entwine human and machine intelligence? Well, the latest report on AI evolution suggests the possibility that the line separating physical and digital realities might dissolve soon.

The weird way video games are paving the road to the future of technology Here's something interesting you might not know: The graphics processors, or GPUs, that make possible the eye-poppingly realistic graphics of games like " Quantum Break" are also really well-suited to powering artificial intelligence and other high-intensity tasks. The world of high-performance computing measures power in "FLOPS," or "floating point operations per second."

Artificial Intelligence Course Creates AI Teaching Assistant Science and Technology College of Computing Professor Ashok Goel teaches Knowledge Based Artificial Intelligence (KBAI) every semester. It's a core requirement of Georgia Tech's online master's of science in computer science program. And every time he offers it, Goel estimates, his 300 or so students post roughly 10,000 messages in the online forums - far too many inquiries for him and his eight teaching assistants (TA) to handle.

Is artificial intelligence smartphone marketing's salvation or its undoing? By Chantal Tode May 9, 2016 Bear Naked is tapping into IBM Watson's cognitive capabilities While artificial intelligence has the potential to enhance the smartphone's role as a marketing platform through highly relevant one-to-one services, it could also eliminate the need for a phone to enable engagements as the technology evolves.

Artificial intelligence turns $20 into $11,000 in Kentucky Derby bet An artificial intelligence platform that has previously predicted the winners of the Oscars and the Super Bowl has now won the "holy grail" of gambling: the Kentucky Derby Superfecta. The human-based artificial intelligence-called UNU-predicted the first, second, third and fourth horses in the Derby at 540-1 odds, earning the technology's inventor Louis Rosenberg $10,842 from a $20 dollar bet.

Artificial Intelligence Latest News & Update: AI Technology To Become A Powerful Asset For Precision-Based Medicine? With the advancement and sophistication of modern technology, artificial intelligence has seamlessly coalesced into the field of medicine. In fact, AI technology has recently been viewed as an asset of precision medicine that can outmaneuver tough medical problems. Artificial Intelligence In Medicine The presence of artificial intelligence in the field of medicine is nothing new.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 37

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Contextual Deep Learning Makes Artificial Intelligence More Real First Posted: May 06, 2016 10:50 AM EDT Tags Deep Learning, contextual deep learning, artificial intelligence, AI, RAGE Frameworks Contextual deep learning allows artificial intelligence machines to react in a more natural and intelligent way to the real-world auditory, visual or other type of data.

What artificial intelligence can do for journalists and newsrooms Information for and about the digital publishing industry from the leading trade association dedicated to representing the interests of high-quality digital publishers before the advertising community, the press, the government and the public. Includes recent news and latest research on the industry, as well as membership information.

How RAGE AI Makes Artificial Intelligence More Realistic - DATAVERSITY by Angela Guess The MIT Technology Review recently wrote, "When you first think of artificial intelligence (AI), you might envision a fully automated society in which robots serve our every need. Or you might imagine the disembodied voice of HAL, the recalcitrant computer that wouldn't open the pod-bay doors in '2001: A Space Odyssey,' the ...

Swarm AI predicts the 2016 Kentucky Derby - TechRepublic For those betting on the 142nd Kentucky Derby on Saturday, there are several ways to approach the strategy. Last year, Jimmy Fallon's puppies took a stab at it-and correctly predicted the winner, American Pharoah. Or, you could rely on the experts from the Bleacher Report.

IBM Watson-infused robo wants to help advisors, not beat them IBM Watson, the computing system smart enough to provide doctors with recommendations for treating lung cancer, is now ready to assist financial planners to give advice. After months in development, Marstone, a new robo adviser, officially launched on Pershing's custodial platform on Thursday, offering institutional clients a digital advice engine powered by IBM's famed artificial intelligence system, Watson.

What Happens When The Voice Of Your Brand Is A Humanoid Robot? A powerful transfer of power is underway around us. It takes many forms from drones to driverless cars to robotics factories made freshly famous by Tesla. This rise in robotics is remaking both the supply chain and demand sides of business (see "Rise of the Robots"), but they will soon [...]

At Stitch Fix, data scientists and A.I. become personal stylists With Stitch Fix, users don't go shopping for their clothes. Professional stylists do the job for them and the personal shopping service ships the new clothes to their door. The stylists aren't working on their own, though; they're using artificial intelligence (A.I.) and a team of about 60 data scientists.

Artificial Intelligence INVADES Fast Food: How AI Technology Could Change The Way Humans Dine Artificial intelligence (AI) first emerged in the late 1940s. But today, AI is transforming most if not all industries, including the foodservice industry. In fact, a company called Momentum Machines has created an AI-driven robot that can make one burger from scratch every 10 seconds in an hour.

Artificial Intelligence News: Slate Readers Not Convinced About AI Being A Threat, Think Humans Exploiting AI Are More Dangerous Artificial Intelligence or AI is one of the favorite topics today. AI has the potential of changing the future and making life more convenient. However, some remain reserved because of the potential threats AI may bring to humanity. Learn what Slate readers think about AI here.

Pre-programming Artificial Intelligence is a Risky Business Glad to see more folks understanding what I had shared 6 months ago about AI and having entire teams of comprised of the standard SV male. It doesn't work for AI and will be a barrier in it's adoption.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 36

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Looking for art in artificial intelligence Algorithms help us to choose which films to watch, which music to stream and which literature to read. But what if algorithms went beyond their jobs as mediators of human culture and started to create culture themselves?

Larry Berman: How artificial intelligence is changing dynamics in the investment world ANALYSIS: Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the largest hedge fund in the world, hired IBM's Watson programming team to incorporate artificial intelligence into the investment process. Later this year, I will be doing something similar, so stay tuned to learn more about this exciting endeavour.

How Artificial Intelligence Plays Into The Future Of Sports Technology Sports excite people as a triumph of human effort. Behind the scenes there are a number of things that go into that triumph, and at the top is technology. The sports world today is getting tech savvy by combining natural, athletic talent with advanced analytics and even artificial intelligence (AI) to produce the best possible outcomes on the playing field.

White House Wants to Discuss the Pros and Cons of Artificial Intelligence Nothing says that a topic has arrived more than a series of White House-sanctioned workshops about that topic. Well, that's what's happened with artificial intelligence. The White House Office of Science and Technology on Tuesday announced four public workshops to discuss the fast growing artificial intelligence field, or AI, in which computers learn to handle tasks from writing news stories to performing surgery.

Google artificial intelligence company has access to 1.6m NHS records Google agrees new data share deal with Royal Free NHS Trust in London Internet giant is developing new app to help care for kidney patients But Google can access complete medical records - not just kidney data Campaigners unhappy Google will have free access to all patient records Up to 1.6 million patients have had their private medical files passed on to Google without their permission, it was revealed today The internet giant was given the data by one of the largest NHS trusts to develop an app to monitor possible kidney failure.

Artificial intelligence in the cloud promises to be the next great disrupter - FT.com Cloud computing is still in its infancy. Most big companies are assessing how far to go in shifting computing tasks into the giant, centralised data centres that form the cloud, and it will be years before most existing computing workloads move to it, if ever.

How Artificial Intelligence Helps Lawyers Compete in today's Data-driven World - IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Patent Law Later in May the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics will host the " CodeX FutureLaw Conference 2016," a fourth annual conference focusing on how technology such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) has changed the landscape of the legal profession, the law itself and how these changes impact us all.

3 Ways to Bring Artificial Intelligence to Your Customer Experience Sometimes the greatest pain of a customer service leader is the buzz of a new technology that results in a Sunday night CEO email asking "when are we going to get this"? In 2016, the leading contender has to be Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Artificial Intelligence: Don't Fear It, Embrace It - InformationWeek Adam Coates, the director of the Baidu Research's Silicon Valley AI Lab, says don't fear artificial intelligence. Instead, look to it to save lives. He spoke at the InformationWeek Elite 100 Conference this week. (Click image for larger view and slideshow.)

Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence Defecating ducks, talking busts, and mechanised Christs - Jessica Riskin on the wonderful history of automata, machines built to mimic the processes of intelligent life. ow old are the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 35

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How a Chinese cab service uses AI to purge the surge About Author The second phase of Delhi's odd-even rule ended Saturday, but restrictions on "surge pricing" used by cab aggregators Ola and Uber to meet demand and supply is not expected to end till the state government issues sector-specific guidelines.

Transhumanist rights are the Civil Rights of the 21st Century, says futurist Zoltan Istvan Maitreya One, a black futurist and hip-hop artist living in Harlem, steps off the Greyhound bus on a warm morning in Montgomery, Alabama. Wearing sunglasses and a backwards-facing baseball hat, he eyes the film crew covering his arrival. I walk up to him and give him a hug. I'm excited he's here.

Hacker could fool smartphones artificial intelligence with a white noise virus Nightmare scenarios involving Artificial Intelligence typically involve computers that become too smart for their own good and turn against their creators. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, HAL 9000 famously refused to open the pod bay doors for Dave: Well, now we have an entirely different cause to be wary of AI, and the culprit is human rather than machine.

S Korea, US To Advance AI CyberSecurity MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Seoul and Washington have agreed to join efforts to develop an advanced artificial intelligence (AI) technology to counter cyberspace threats, according to a joint statement quoted by the local media on Monday.

Legal AI targets repetitive client issues Lara Bullock View Comments Speaking with Lawyers Weekly, the managing director and founder of Hive Legal, Jodie Baker (pictured), said there is a place in the legal market where artificial intelligence can thrive. "That sweet spot is where the clients can really find something that's going to change the level of efficiency that they can achieve," Ms Baker said.

AI-powered selfie drone takes 13MP photos and 4K video, wows GMIC Beijing 2016 | ZDNet MQ Wang is an outlier in the tech industry. He prefers to be spend as much time outside as possible. A few years ago while he was finishing his PhD at Stanford, Wang fell for a documentary of Jon Muir, who walked 1600 miles alone across Australia and filmed the whole experience by himself.

Creative machines: The next frontier for artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence can solve routine tasks but still struggles to be creative or collaborate with us. By Joel Lehman, Assitant Professor, and Sebastian Risi, Associate Professor, IT University of Copenhagen Imagine if machines were as creative and as collaborative as humans.

This Is What It Looks Like When Artificial Intelligence Designs a Dress for the Met Gala If you were picturing a not-so-distant future populated by ever-helpful artificial intelligence eager to kowtow to your every whim in a split second-well, think again. "I need another day," said the AI developed within algorithm editor Grasshopper to create a dress for the New York socialite Lisa Maria Falcone to wear to tonight's Met Gala.

Artificial Intelligence Now Decides Targets on US Aegis Ships WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Artificial Intelligence had already taken over defense targeting decisions on Aegis missile warships of the US Navy, Deputy Defense Secretary Bob Work told a conference at the Atlantic Council. "You'll have learning machines that sense we're under attack," Work stated on Monday. "We already have it in the Aegis combat system.

Google Wishes People To Forget Gadgets; Envisions Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence First Posted: May 03, 2016 04:30 AM EDT Google is looking at a future where people would not even notice their own gadgets. This is what the company's CEO Sundar Pichai shared in their annual shareholder letter, emphasizing the power of artificial intelligence and machine learning.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 34

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Researchers Are Giving Artificial Intelligence (Virtual) Rocket Launchers Video games are a good way to train artificial intelligence algorithms to learn about a visual world-researchers can simulate any situation they want, and it's endlessly repeatable. Google DeepMind is famous for this approach, teaching its A.I. to play Atari. Now researchers are competing to make their algorithms play Doom, the iconic shooting game originally for PC.

One reason finance actually wants more regulation (Hint: Thank AI) The finance world is cautiously optimistic about the future of artificial intelligence and how it can be used, but, there is more work needed on regulating the technology when it comes to world markets. "Financial institutions have been fined billions of dollars because of illegality and compliance breaches by traders.

Want a career in artificial intelligence? Here's a guide Artificial Intelligence is the field where jobs continue to grow, provided you have the desired skill sets Diksha Gupta, Techgig.com Artificial intelligence (AI) is the buzzword in almost all industries. Decision-makers want to make use of massive data they get from various sources. This is where data analytics and artificial intelligence come into play.

The Ironic Reality of Ethics and Law in Artificial Intelligence Twitter has admitted that as many as 23 million (8.5%) of its user accounts are autonomous Twitterbots. Many are there to increase productivity, conduct research, or even have some fun. Yet many have been created with harmful intentions. In both cases, the bots have been known to behave with questionable ethics.

Technology Assisted Review - court approves use of "Artificial Intelligence" in disclosure | Lexology United Kingdom April 22 2016 The judgment of Master Matthews in Pyrrho Investments Ltd v MWB Property Ltd [2016] EWHC 256 (Ch) is the first reported decision of the English High Court endorsing the use of the technology commonly referred to as "predictive coding" or "technology assisted review" in place of "manual" review in disclosure.

How Do We Make Sure A.I. Understands Human Values? As artificial intelligence grows increasingly sophisticated, it also grows increasingly alien. Deep learning algorithms and other A.I. technologies are creating systems capable of solving problems in ways that humans might never consider. But it's important that such systems understand humans as well, lest they inadvertently harm their creators.

The superhero of artificial intelligence: can this genius keep it in check? With his company DeepMind, Londoner Demis Hassabis is leading Google's project to build software more powerful than the human brain. But what will this mean for the future of humankind?Christian Forthomme's insight:Artificial Intelligence is at the center of conversations in Silicon Valley. A next "Big Thing" for sure but also

Zuckerberg Signals Wide Use Of Artificial Intelligence On Internet For Medical Uses Market for AI Apps will hit $40 billion by 2020

Google's search finds a future where devices don't matter: It's all AI In the foreseeable future, we likely won't even notice our devices. That's the vision Google CEO Sundar Pichai cast in the search giant's annual shareholder letter. In a section subtitled "The power of machine learning and artificial intelligence , " Pichai sets the stage for the future as Google sees

Angry Birds Maker Wants Phones Out as Film Credits Roll - Personal Tech on Top Tech News Edging its way a little further into health care, Apple has released new iPhone apps that patients can use to manage their own medical conditions -- from diabetes to pregnancy and even depression.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 33

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Artificial Intelligence On The Rise? Google, Movidius To Make AI More Accessible Through Software, USB Sticks Artificial intelligence (AI) is definitely on the rise as many innovators and entrepreneurs recently vowed to invest more time and money on AI-driven programs. In fact, Google and chip-maker Movidius are planning to make AI more accessible through their new innovations.

Can Artificial Intelligence Identify Your Next Heart Attack? On a recent overnight shift in the emergency room, a woman who was having vague abdominal pain and chest discomfort for several days was referred to me. When her symptoms began, after searching google, she came up with a diagnosis list that included everything from influenza, to Zika, to lupus.

Elon Musk Opens Artificial Intelligence Gym To Train Robots The rich and famous Elon Musk has launched a beta version of a gym for the training of AI systems. These include robots of all kinds. The gymnasium comes under the rubric of his non-profit agency. Termed the OpenAI Gym, it had its ribbon-cutting ceremony a few days ago.

Apple co-founder tells Brisbane revolution is coming Steve Wozniak tells the innovation summit that artificial intelligence researchers are getting close to the point of understanding "what the brain is". Photo: Robert Shakespeare The man who helped bring Apple computers to the world says we're on the verge of an artificial intelligence revolution.

Microsoft's Eric Horvitz ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award for groundbreaking artificial intelligence work - MSPoweruser Eric Horvitz, managing director of Microsoft's Redmond, Washington, research lab was awarded the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for groundbreaking contributions in artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction. Horvitz's work has primarily been focused on exploring the interrelationships between artificial intelligence and fields like decision science, cognitive science and neuroscience.

Twitter's Artificial Intelligence Knows What's Happening in Live Video Clips Twitter has been developing technology that automatically recognizes what's happening in live video, a step toward sophisticated recommendations. Right now, someone somewhere is live-streaming something interesting. Thanks to technology being developed by a team of artificial intelligence researchers at Twitter, you may soon be able to find it.

Chatbots: Smart communication with Artificial Intelligence Chatbots, also known as smart bots, are flavour of the month in the tech community at the moment, but like many technologies, they are not an entirely new concept. The main reason they are currently making big waves is because they have become a lot smarter.

Anticipating artificial intelligence In January, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation in Washington DC gave its annual Luddite Award to "a loose coalition of scientists and luminaries who stirred fear and hysteria in 2015 by raising alarms that artificial intelligence (AI) could spell doom for humanity".

Artificial Intelligence: Bill Gates Shares How 'Personalized Learning' Can Revolutionize Education Virtual reality and artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming powerful tools needed to revolutionize education. Experts suggest the use of technology, with the integration of the ever-evolving cyber tools, will unify education and research environment and network. Despite the threat of artificial intelligence to rise up against humans and destroy humanity within decades, AI continues to prove its usefulness to mankind.

How Game Theory and Artificial Intelligence Help Wildlife Conservation by Outwitting Poachers Apr 25, 2016 01:19 PM EDT Poaching is one of the greatest threats in the conservation of wildlife, and even patrol rangers' extreme efforts are not enough to completely fend off poachers, especially in very large protected areas. "In most parks, ranger patrols are poorly planned, reactive rather than pro-active, and habitual," said Fei Fang, a Ph.D.