Artificial Intelligence News Issue 48

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The race to monetize artificial intelligence is on Artificial intelligence is becoming one of the most exciting technology trends in the market. Companies like IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon are actively leveraging AI as part of their technology stacks. However, in order to dominate the market, these vendors will need to monetize AI at a large scale.

How connectivity puts artificial intelligence in its place UK director, Qualtrics Ian McVey is UK director at Qualtrics, an employee engagement firm. In this article, he explores the state of artificial intelligence. Last week, the Institute of Directors (IoD) warned that 15 million jobs are at risk from the rise of automation, a figure echoed by the Bank of England.

How Artificial Intelligence Can Boost Google's Cloud Revenue Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL) CEO Sundar Pichai said at the Google I/O conference that the company has built a Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) as part of its AI (artificial intelligence) initiative. Google built an AI computer system for Chinese board game Go which beat a human player.

Google Develops Artificial Intelligence With Human-Level Speech Capability First Posted: May 31, 2016 10:10 AM EDT Google's artificial intelligence is reported to be developed under the supervision of Ray Kurzweil, a computer scientist and futurist. According to reports, he was hired by the company in 2012 to work on the natural language recognition.

Will Artificial Intelligence Influence Future Fed Policy? Watch the video Will Artificial Intelligence Influence Future Fed Policy? on Yahoo Finance . May 31 -- Bloomberg Businessweek's Chris Condon discusses the impact of artificial intelligence on Fed policy. He speaks with Bloomberg's David Gura and Shery Ahn on "Bloomberg Markets."

Artificial Intelligence Spots More Offensive Photos Than Humans On Our Site: Facebook Washington: In an attempt to combat hate speech, Facebook has said its artificial intelligence (AI) systems now report more offensive photos than humans do, which can help remove such content before it hurts the sentiments of people. When users upload something offensive to disturb people, it normally has to be seen and flagged by at least one person.

See The Difference One Year Makes In Artificial Intelligence Research Last June, Google wrote that it was teaching its artificial intelligence algorithms to generate images of objects, or "dream." The A.I. tried to generate pictures of things it had seen before, like dumbbells. But it ran into a few problems. It was able to successfully make objects shaped like dumbbells, but each had disembodied arms sticking out from the handles, because arms and dumbbells were closely associated.

The Race to Monetize Artificial Intelligence First, Better - DATAVERSITY by Angela Guess Jesus Rodriguez recently wrote in CIO.com, "The battle in the artificial intelligence (A.I.) market has been heating up. IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are all continuously releasing impressive technologies in the space that are capturing the minds of developers and customers. From a market perspective, A.I.

How Facebook Uses Artificial Intelligence to Teach Computers to Read Each day on Facebook, millions of people comment about baby photos, discuss presidential hopeful Donald Trump's latest musings, or share their thoughts on the latest blockbuster movie. Put simply, Facebook users love to communicate on the social network, and that communication translates to a lot of text.

Nasdaq testing artificial intelligence systems to track rogue traders Nasdaq Inc. is trying to identify would-be white-collar criminals by using artificial intelligence systems originally built to track terrorists and sex traffickers. The exchange is testing systems that analyze data about trading activity against what traders say on their corporate chat and email accounts, in an effort to spot potential insider trading, market manipulation and other crimes faster and more accurately than current surveillance systems can.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 47

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Strengthen Your Cyber Defense with Big Data and AI Cyber attacks continue to increase in volume, velocity, and variety. Cyber criminals display great sophistication and can purchase a revolving multitude of digital weapons inexpensively via the dark web. They operate in an environment in which they know that borders are meaningless and the chances of apprehension and punishment are slim.

Ray Kurzweil is building a chatbot for Google Inventor Ray Kurzweil made his name as a pioneer in technology that helped machines understand human language, both written and spoken. These days he is probably best known as a prophet of The Singularity, one of the leading voices predicting that artificial intelligence will soon surpass its human creators - resulting in either our enslavement or immortality, depending on how things shake out.

AAJA N3Con: Journalism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Chance Dorland spoke with Bloomberg TV's Angie Lau, Bloomberg News' David Merritt, Heather Timmons of Quartz, the AP's Paul Cheung & drone photographer Seongjoo Cho after their Asian American Journalists Association "Journalism in the Age of Artificial Intelligence" panel discussion at this weekend's New.Now.Next media conference in Seoul.

Artificial Intelligence Latest News & Updates: AI Revolution Looms? Experts Claim AI Is Not A Threat To Mankind But Aims To Remold Society The ever-evolving field of artificial intelligence (AI) has proven its pervasiveness in humanity as it continues to revolutionize the lives of humans and make big strides when it comes to technological innovations. Hence, many several entrepreneurs and innovators are investing more time and money on AI-driven platforms and programs as well AI-oriented technologies.

Google Home vs. Amazon Echo - Are You Ready To Welcome Artificial Intelligence To Your Home? - Neurogadget Smartwatches are no longer the most wanted new products on the market. People's enthusiasm begins to disappear, as they turn their attention to virtual reality headsets and smart home speakers. While VR headsets are paired with a smartphone and allow users to watch videos or play games, smart home speakers connect wirelessly and allow users ...

Computers could develop consciousness and may need 'human' rights, says Oxford professor Advances in artificial intelligence could lead to computers and smartphones developing consciousness and they may need to be given 'human' rights, an expert has claimed. Marcus du Sautoy, who took over from Richard Dawkins as Professor for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University in 2008 said it was now possible to measure consciousness and, in the future, technology could be deemed to be 'alive.'

At Brown, experts say growth of robotics not to be feared PROVIDENCE, R.I. - When the average person hears the words, artificial intelligence, he or she immediately thinks of Skynet, the sinister computer network that nearly destroyed humanity in the Terminator movies, or HAL, the soft-spoken computer that turns on its human controllers in the movie, "2001: A Space Odyssey."

BMW vs. Mercedes-Benz: Which Luxury Automaker Is Hitting the Gas on Driverless Tech? -- The Motley Fool Recently, ( BMW NASDAQOTH:BAMXF) mentioned that it would introduce an autonomous car by 2021, called the iNext. The automaker hasn't released much detail about the vehicle, but it will most likely resemble the similar-sounding Vision Next 100 concept vehicle, which the company showed off back in March.

Female computer science professor blasts 'sexist geeks' Ursula Martin, professor of computer science at Oxford, criticised sexism She told the Hay Festival about an 'enhanced human' vision presentation Prof Martin said a presentation in Cambridge lacked 'female attributes' She said it was an example of the 'staggering sexism' in the industry Sexist geeks who built a prototype of an 'enhanced human' which was entirely male have been lambasted by one of Britain's leading computer scientists.

Global Artificial Intelligence Market Worth $23.4 Billion by 2025 - Key Trends Across Business Segments, Regions & Countries Source: Research and Markets Dublin, May 30, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Artificial Intelligence Market Analysis & Trends - Industry Forecast to 2025" report to their offering. The report estimates that the Global Artificial Intelligence Market will reach a value of $23.4 Billion by 2025.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 46

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Artificial Intelligence Is Being Used to Discover New Uses for Drugs At any given moment, pharmaceutical firms have a massive library of compounds and no clue what to do with them. Tucked away in extensive collections of synthetic and theoretical drug banks lie hidden gems - drugs to treat perhaps even the most devastating diseases - but identifying them is a pain: testing can take years, even decades, and often researchers aren't even sure what they're looking for.

Dan Weld - The Real Threat of Artificial Intelligence | Madrona Venture Group Dan provides interesting guest commentary with Geekwire: In short, the biggest threat posed by AI is not the advent of autonomous machines, but of human beings losing their autonomy by being driven from the production process. We must confront the potential for serious social unrest, perhaps even revolt or revolution.

Tracy, a Wearable for Canines that Uses Artificial Intelligence to Monitor Health Trends, is Now Accepting Pre-orders More than a location tracker for dogs, Tracy alerts owners when it is time to run, play and go to the bathroom and is smart enough to learn on its own Stockholm, Sweden (PRWEB) May 24, 2016 Tracy is a dog tracker that can do more than simply locate a dog's position.

HCL wins best NLP at artificial intelligence summit in London HCL was named as a finalist in the "Best Intelligent Assistant" category which showcases companies making ground-breaking advancements in virtual assistants and advanced voice/text recognition capabilities.

Artificial Intelligence programme to create algorithm art at the Tate - The i newspaper online iNews Who needs Art critics when a computer can do the job? Visitors to the Tate will be invited to access an Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme which uses algorithms to explain the relevance of works in the collection. "We can't wait to begin working with Tate, Microsoft and a talented team of AI specialists to create ...

China to spend $15 billion on AI products to boost its economy | Latest Tech News, Video & Photo Reviews at BGR India In order to boost its economy, China is moving its focus to manufacturing robots, smart home appliances and smartphones. China plans to expand its artificial intelligence products market to over $15 billion by speeding up the manufacturing of products like robots, home appliances and mobile phones as part of efforts to develop new technologies to reorient its sluggish economy.

Carnegie Mellon Transparency Reports Make AI Decision-Making Accountable Machine-learning algorithms increasingly make decisions about credit, medical diagnoses, personalized recommendations, advertising and job opportunities, among other things, but exactly how usually remains a mystery. Now, new measurement methods developed by Carnegie Mellon University researchers could provide important insights to this process.

Artificial intelligence and other computer systems will change benefit advising It seems a long time ago (1997), that IBM's Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov - then world champion - in chess, and we started talking about artificial intelligence seriously. However, we all thought AI would be limited to logical, rational, linear models of "thinking" that a machine can be programmed to do.

Hazelwick pupil making film in Crawley questioning morals of creating artificial intelligence A POUND Hill filmmaker is ready to shoot his next production, which will tackle the morals of developing artificial intelligence (A I) - but he needs your help to make it.

Ghosts in the machine: artificial intelligence - legal risk | Lexology In this article forming part of our b:INFORM Ghosts in the Machine Series, we analyse the survey findings relating to legal risks arising from the use of Artificial Intelligence ("AI") in financial markets and institutions. Click here for our article analysing the survey findings relating to regulatory risks arising from the use of AI.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 45

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This artificial intelligence app turns your photos into weird poetry Artificial intelligence (AI) may some day surpass the human race and lead to our extinction, but we're all right so far. It's technologically advanced, but it doesn't yet understand how humans interact in the real world. Remember Tay, Microsoft's teen chatbot?

China seeks to grow Artificial Intelligence market to US $15 billion | Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis China plans to expand its artificial intelligence (AI) products market to over US $15 billion by speeding up the manufacturing of products like robots, home appliances and mobile phones as part of efforts to develop new technologies to reorient its sluggish economy.

Robo-Yellen? How Artificial Intelligence Could One Day Set Monetary Policy Far-reaching economic indicators, including unemployment, GDP and federal fund rates may all soon be predicted by technology, as artificial intelligence seeks to give Federal Reserve Janet Yellen, Chairwoman of the Board of Governors for the Federal Reserve, as well as thousands of rank and file stock traders, a run for their, and your, money.

Video: Bringing artificial intelligence to IR New tools based around machine learning and natural language processing This IR Magazine interview explores how artificial intelligence, including machine learning and natural language processing, is affecting investor relations. Darrell Heaps, founder and CEO of Q4, a market intelligence and investor engagement firm based in Toronto, is joined by Adam Frederick, Q4's senior vice president, intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence News & Update: Google Launching A New Project To Feature How Creative AI Is In Making Arts Nothing can stop Google from exploring what artificial intelligence (AI) can and can't do. According to new reports, Google is set to launch a new project that features how AI creates arts. Google To Launch An AI To Create Art According to Popular Science, Google is set to launch their new project, Magenta on June 1.

Tracy, a Wearable for Canines that Uses Artificial Intelligence to Monitor Health Trends, is Now Accepting Pre-orders More than a location tracker for dogs, Tracy alerts owners when it is time to run, play and go to the bathroom and is smart enough to learn on its own Stockholm, Sweden (PRWEB) May 24, 2016 Tracy is a dog tracker that can do more than simply locate a dog's position.

IBM's Watson Answers the Question, "What's the Difference Between Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Computing?" Prime time television viewers have undoubtedly noticed the slew of recent commercials featuring IBM's Watson computing platform in conversation with celebrities such as Bob Dylan, Carrie Fisher, Serena Williams, and Stephen King. These ads showcase continuing advances in Watson's speech capabilities and intelligence applied to various disciplines, which were initially exhibited in Watson's championship performance on the Jeopardy!

Artificial Intelligence Is Far From Matching Humans, Panel Says SEATTLE - Never mind Terminator-like killer robots. Artificial intelligence researchers are grappling with more realistic questions like whether their creations will take too many jobs from humans. Eight years after leading artificial intelligence scientists said their field did not need to be regulated, the question of government oversight has re-emerged as the technology has rapidly progressed.

US Military Needs to Boost Artificial Intelligence-Human Teamwork Military & Intelligence Get short URL WASHINGTON (Sputnik) - Artificial Intelligence had already taken over defense targeting decisions on Aegis missile warships of the US Navy, according to US military officials. "Advances in AI will lead us to a new era of human-machine cooperation and combat teaming where tactical acuity of a computer will help man make more informed decisions," Harris stated.

Artificial intelligence is here: who is it going to benefit? This article is brought to you by the Bay Area Book Festival. Tempus Fugit. Cui Bono? Fifty years ago, we could not have imagined phones that communicated without wires. Ten years ago, driverless cars were something out of a science-fiction novel - not on assembly lines. Artificial intelli

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 44

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Google: Useful artificial intelligence finally here Spring may finally have arrived for artificial intelligence, Google executives said Friday. Speaking at the Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, executives said that artificial intelligence and machine learning have advanced to the point where they are proving genuinely useful, through such technologies as speech recognition and language translation.

Robots wrangle with Wright brothers in science talk Self-driving cars, death-dealing drones, robots performing surgery, computers writing their own codes - not even George Orwell imagined a world where Big Brother could be a super-smart machine instead of a faceless, mind-robbing bureaucrat.

Apple faces hurdles in 2016: podcast SAN FRANCISCO - It's open season on Apple. At least that appears to be the sentiment among some investors and industry pundits after the venerable company recorded its first decline in year-over-year quarterly sales in more than a decade, low-lighted by a 16% drop in iPhone sales (51.2 million) - It's first decline since the smartphone debuted in 2007 - and an 11% decline in sales in China.

IBM Looks To Watson To Fight Online Criminals And Filter The Flood Of Security Data Worldwide spending on cybersecurity likely topped $75 billion last year, researchers at Gartner estimated, with companies more wary than ever of the risks posed by data breaches and other digital attacks.

Worried About Artificial Intelligence? What About The Disruptive Potential Of Artificial Bodies? Many articles and commentators recently have expressed concern about the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) to disrupt human life. Some have even gone apocalyptic in their visions of AI run amok. Certainly there is cause for concern and we should pay attention to the evolution of AI. However, few people are [...]

Artificial Intelligence: Driving the Next Revolution in Travel? Artificial intelligence (AI), that is the ability of machines to imitate human intelligence processes, and machine learning, a branch of AI concerning the possibility for computers to learn when exposed to new information, are acquiring an increasingly important role in the travel industry and are expected to be among its main disruptors in the next few years.

Guest commentary: The real threat of artificial intelligence Many people find recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) quite alarming. Indeed, luminaries, ranging from Nobel laureate Stephen Hawking to technology pioneers Elon Musk and Bill Gates, have warned that artificial intelligence technology might be more dangerous to humankind than the atomic bomb.

No Industry Can Afford to Ignore Artificial Intelligence MIT Technology Review 's EmTech Digital conference will explore and explain how artificial intelligence is transforming all kinds of business. Sixty years ago this summer, four computer science professors established a summer project aimed at creating "artificial intelligence"-the first time this phrase was ever used.

The House That Learns: Bringing Artificial Intelligence Into The Home A new company is hoping to take the smart home sector to the next level by introducing artificial intelligence.

Why Artificial Intelligence Will Change Our World And Why It Needs To Be Purposeful Around 200 years ago the industrial revolution immutably remoulded society. Today another revolution is underway with potentially even further reaching consequences. Artificial Intelligence in industry, experts are predicting, will change everything about the way we produce, manufacture and deliver. Cognitive computing, machine learning, natural language processing - different terms have [...]

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 43

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Google's big bet: Machine learning, artificial intelligence will be its secret sauce, winning formula | ZDNet Built-in search, artificial intelligence, machine learning and a knowledge graph connecting billions of entities is how Google plans to ultimately compete and win in many markets where it isn't first today. It's easy to note the me-too items outlined at Google I/O. Android N has a few new features, but doesn't advance the ball that much.

Artificial Intelligence Makes the Phone a Personal Assistant ARTIFICIAL intelligence is a longstanding science fiction staple that is coming into its own. Google, Facebook, Apple and others are all developing A.I. tools. You can try out some apps today that demonstrate fledgling forms of the technology by smartly, swiftly and automatically doing tasks that would otherwise take lots of effort.

Supplementing cyber security strategy with Artificial Intelligence it could take a few weeks to months for Next Gen AI to 'learn' what is suspicious activity vs what is not. But it will be sharpened as user behaviors and the nature of business processes are analyzed.

Building artificial intelligence models with Internet-of-Things data You might ask what the difference is between most artificial intelligence (AI) companies and SparkCognition. Here it is: while at other firms, humans build models; SparkCognition puts them together with algorithms. Rather than roughing out one model and then doing a bunch of testing, SparkCognition continually tests and fits models to data accumulating in real time, an architecture that allows it to deal with big data.

University of Washington will host first-ever White House workshop on artificial intelligence Between the University of Washington, a thriving tech community, and strong research institutions, like the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), many of the rapid developments in AI are playing out in Seattle. Perhaps that's why the White House has selected the Emerald City for its first public workshop on artificial intelligence.

Artificial Intelligence is no Longer Science Fiction, It's a Reality Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most evocative and confusing terms in technology. It seems there are new announcements almost every day about the advancements of machines and their ability to 'think'. We have seen a machine master the complex game of Go, previously thought to be the most difficult challenge of artificial processing.

Human-machine interaction | TAB The subject gains particular relevance against the background of large projects which currently have been launched in the EU ("Human Brain Project") and in the US ("Brain Initiative") within the framework of which the functional principles of the brain shall be unraveled by means of supercomputers, i.a.

Artificial Intelligence News & Updates: Financial Firms Uses AI To Handle Compliance Overload Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most used technology today. You can find it in schools, offices, mobile applications and even financial firms. According to reports, banks will be using AI to handle compliance overload.

Can Computers Be Creative? On a New Sort of Turing Test A computer program might be able to talk you into thinking it's human, but will it ever be Shakespeare? The so-called Turing Test, which measures the ability of a computer to convince a person communicating with it - typically though a typed question-and-answer exchange - that they are actually conversing with another human, has long been the presumed arbiter of machine intelligence.

Why Artificial Intelligence Is Still A Work In Progress Computers can recognize cats in photos and translate websites into different languages thanks to recent advances in artificial intelligence. But that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to someday creating computers that can think like humans. Take the example of Google's AlphaGo computer system, which managed to defeat a human at the ancient Chinese board game Go.

Artificial Intelligence News Issue 42

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Google 'Artificial Intelligence' Free Update: Google Introduces 'Parsey McParseface' As Open Source Natural Language AI Tool [VIDEO] On Thursday Google launched SyntaxNet, an open-source neural network framework applied in TensorFlow that provides groundwork for Natural Language Understanding (NLU) systems. It also includes Parsey McParseface, an English language parser that has been skilled to examine English text and the most accurate model in the world.

Rage Frameworks to Present Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence Insights at EmTech Digital DEDHAM, MA--(Marketwired - May 17, 2016) - Rage Frameworks, a provider of knowledge-based automation technology and services, today announced that it will attend MIT Technology Review's fourth annual West Coast Emerging Digital Technologies (EmTech Digital) Conference, which brings together innovators, entrepreneurs, business leaders and venture capitalists to examine what's next...

eBay's Next Move: Artificial Intelligence To Refine Product Searches -- Trefis After indicating that the company is working on a turnaround plan this year, eBay (NASDAQ:EBAY) seems to be aggressively pursuing initiatives to fulfill its goals of making its platform simpler and more efficient for both buyers and sellers. Reports suggest that the company recently acquired an artificial intelligence and analytics company based out of Sweden called Expertmaker.

Changing Carrier Landscape - Data and Artificial Intelligence Our world is undergoing unprecedented, some say disruptive, change at a lightening pace. Many of these changes in our world of insurance will stem from technology, data and artificial intelligence and the considerable interplay among all three.

Google Echoes Amazon's Echo, Opens New Virtual-Reality Door Google wants to play an even bigger role in managing people's daily lives, while also nudging them into an alternate reality, as the Internet company responds to competitive threats posed by Facebook, Amazon and Apple. As part of an onslaught of upcoming products, Google will implant a more...

Sony Is Trying to Resuscitate Its Artificial Intelligence Machine Japan's Sony Corp said it plans to build up its artificial intelligence (AI) business and eventually turn it into a major revenue source, beginning with an investment in a U.S. start-up. The electronics maker has invested an undisclosed sum in California-based Cogitai.

Can Using Artificial Intelligence Make Hiring Less Biased? The resume is on its way out. "[It's a] data token that boils you down to a data object," says Pete Kazanjy, founder of TalentBin, a service that uses social media to find job recruits (now part of Monster). That's especially true for hard numbers, said Google's SVP of "people operations" Laszlo Bock in a 2013 New York Times interview.

Artificial Intelligence Requires Thoughtful Policymaking, Experts Say With appropriate policies in place, robots should become our "best friends," not our "worst nightmare," experts said at the 41st Annual AAAS Forum on Science & Technology Policy on 14 April. During a panel, entitled "Best Friend or Worst Nightmare?

Read for Later - Facebook's "Trending" Stories, Emotional Artificial Intelligence, and What People Are Doing in Coffee Shops One of the big stories this week - accusations that Facebook manipulated its trending stories section to exclude conservative news - has fascinating implications for the information work we all do every day.

How Artificial Intelligence puts the 'smart' in smart buildings - Samsung: The Connected Enterprise Early case studies illustrate the business application of deep-learning technology. Over the past six years, investment has poured into Artificial Intelligence (AI), growing over threefold from $1.5bn in 2010 to $5bn in 2015, according to data analytics firm Quid. This has also been a boon for smart building technologies harnessing AI.