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.

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?]