Posts tagged "ai"
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"It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control."
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The Man Behind the Google Brain: Andrew Ng and the Quest for the New AI →
There’s a theory that human intelligence stems from a single algorithm.
The idea arises from experiments suggesting that the portion of your brain dedicated to processing sound from your ears could also handle sight for your eyes. This is possible only while your brain is in the earliest stages of development, but it implies that the brain is — at its core — a general-purpose machine that can be tuned to specific tasks.
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Interview: How Ray Kurzweil Plans To Revolutionize Search At Google →
When Google announced in January that Ray Kurzweil would be joining the company, a lot of people wondered why the phenomenally accomplished entrepreneur and futurist would want to work for a large company he didn’t start.
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How Ray Kurzweil Will Help Google Make the Ultimate AI Brain →
Google has always been an artificial intelligence company, so it really shouldn’t have been a surprise that Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field, joined the search giant late last year. Nonetheless, the hiring raised some eyebrows, since Kurzweil is perhaps the most prominent proselytizer of “hard AI,” which argues that it is possible to create consciousness in an artificial being. Add to this Google’s revelation that it is using techniques of deep learning to produce an artificial brain, and a subsequent hiring of the godfather of computer neural nets Geoffrey Hinton, and it would seem that Google is becoming the most daring developer of AI, a fact that some may consider thrilling and others deeply unsettling. Or both.
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Predictive Analysis: New generation of computational intelligence systems →
Large parts of our lives are now being monitored and analysed by computers. Log on to Amazon and intelligent data analysis software can recommend a selection of books you might like to read. Far from being a sinister intrusion into people’s privacy, the purpose of these systems is to improve our lives, experts say.
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Animations Made Entirely By Computers? Algorithm Generates Cartoon Faces, Shows The Future →
A montage of scribbly cartoon faces, each conveying with distinct personality, would make any parent proud of their child’s artistic creation…except a child didn’t produce these faces; a computer algorithm did.
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Doctors are Addressing Big Data Challenges Using Watson
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“Cybernetic immortality. Fantasy or scientific problem?” →
Cybernetic immortality – fantasy or scientific problem? I can answer that right away. It is a scientific problem – of approximately the same type as the problem of people going into outer space, which was proposed by Tsiolkovsky at the turn of the 20th century.
Why, despite the support of important scientists (such as V. Turchin, C. Joslyn, R. Kurzweil, A. Bolonkin, B. Bainbridge and others), is this idea rejected by many, or at best treated with skepticism?
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AI 'lifeguard' could save young swimmers from drowning →
This goes way beyond water wings. An AI system is learning to recognise the panicky movements people make when they are drowning. The idea is that the system could one day be used to save children’s lives when there are no lifeguards around.
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The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence →
This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us all to an intravenous dopamine drip.”
I have been fighting this persistent but logically bankrupt meme since my first encounter with it in the H community back in 2005. But in spite of all my efforts …. there it is again. Apparently still not dead.
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IBM Watson goes Mobile: Look out Siri! - IBM Tiffany Winman: IBM social media and networking →
Every time I use my iPhone and Siri pops up, I think to myself, “Nice try, Siri, but you’re no Watson.” So you can imagine how excited I was when I heard the news that IBM has plans to make a voice-activated version of IBM Watson on mobile devices such as cell phones, tablets, and more. Sarah Frier wrote a great Bloomberg article, ”IBM Envisions Watson as Supercharged Siri for Businesses,” on the topic.IBM Watson currently helps battle cancer and performs wizardry for financial institutions. Taking such power and then building voice, context-awareness and GPS capabilities into it is truly exciting! I can’t wait to see what’s to come.Source smarterplanet -
Adaptive theremin keeps jamming robots in tune
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'Hologram-like' assistants coming to New York airports in July →
You could get help setting off on your vacation from an unusual source this summer, courtesy of a new initiative announced by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Virtual customer representatives, described as “hologram-like avatars” by the Port Authority, will be tested in JFK’s Terminal 5, LaGuardia’s Central Terminal Building, and Newark Liberty’s Terminal B from early July until the end of the year.
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Science Fiction or Fact: Humanlike Intelligent Machines Will Soon Exist →
In many futuristic tales, our heroic protagonists are often helped — and sometimes harmed — by intelligent machines far more clever than an iPhone. These computers sometimes walk and talk among us. Quick-witted machines serve on spaceships like Lieutenant Commander Data on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” or in our homes like the wisecracking housemaid Rosie the Robot on “The Jetsons.”
