Elon Musk Elon Musk has some really strange ideas about connecting computers to your brainBusiness Insider - Biz CarsonBut when Musk gets into the details of how to do this, some of his ideas sound a little strange. In an interview with Y Combinator President Sam Altman, Musk explained that he believes humans right now
The rise of robots: forget evil AI – the real risk is far more insidiousThe Guardian - Olivia Solon in San FranciscoIt’s far more likely that robots would inadvertently harm or frustrate humans while carrying out our orders than they would rise up against us When we look at the rise of artificial intelligence, it’s
Play button Elon Musk says the future of AI is in linking it to our brainsMashable - Adario StrangeFollowing the accidental explosion at SpaceX on Sept. 1, company founder Elon Musk has been relatively quiet. But an interview posted this week gives us more insight into his thoughts on one of his favorite
Artificial intelligence and languageTechCrunch - Vasco PedroThe concept of artificial intelligence has been around for a long time. We’re all familiar with HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, C-3PO from Star Wars and, more recently, Samantha from Her. In written
Facebook is using AI to make detailed maps of where people liveThe Verge - Nick StattFacebook is now applying its significant computing muscle toward creating maps of where people live and how that affects their internet connections. The maps should help Facebook determine which types
Is Singularity Near?TechCrunch - Truls UnholtOpenAI, a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company, announced itself to the world on December 11, 2015. With $1 billion in funding from high-profile investors, such as Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman
Google's latest AI doesn't need geotags to figure out a photo's locationThe Verge - Alex BrokawGoogle's latest deep-learning program can figure out where a photo was taken just by looking at it. The program, called PlaNet, was trained to recognize locations based on details in a photo by looking
Weird Quantum mechanics is so weird that scientists need AI to design experimentsCNET - by Michelle Starr Researchers at the University of Vienna have created an algorithm that helps plan experiments in this mind-boggling field.
All about Go, the ancient game in which AI bested a masterapnewsarchive.com - YOUKYUNG LEE SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The rules of Go, the ancient Chinese board game that is the stage for a man-vs-machine battle this week, are beautifully …
Play button Can IBM's Watson Beat Cancer at Its Own Game?Popular Mechanics - By Jay BennettTeaching computers to play games has taught us a lot about AI, but the next challenge is working on real-world problems. Late tonight, Google's AI program AlphaGo will take on Lee Se-Dol, the second-ranked
'AI can solve world's biggest problems' - Google Brain engineerCNN Business - by Sara Ashley O'BrienArtificial intelligence will eventually solve some of the world's biggest problems -- but it'll take some smart humans to get it there. Quoc Le, a software engineer at Google Brain, is one such human.
Play button Researchers Create Matrix-Like Instant Learning Through Brain StimulationTechCrunch - John BiggsYou know Kung Fu. Researchers at HRL Laboratories have discovered that when you use transcranial direct current stimulation to send the brain activity of commercial and military pilots into the heads novice
New 'moonshot' effort to understand the brain brings AI closer to realityphys.org - Harvard University Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), Center for Brain Science (CBS), and the Department of Molecular and …
Apple Watch The evidence is clear: Apple's next big thing will be virtual realityBusiness Insider - Kif LeswingA growing amount of evidence indicates that Apple is developing something with virtual-reality technology. The dream: to immerse viewers in a totally computer-generated world. VR has been a dream for for
Your Next New Best Friend Might Be a Robot - Issue 33: Attractionnautil.us - By Yongdong Wang Illustration by Francisco Alandre February 4, 2016 One night in late July 2014, a journalist from the Chinese newspaper Southern Weekly interviewed a 17-year-old Chinese girl named Xiaoice (pronounced …
Contact Lens Set To Transform Into Next-Gen Electronicsdeepstuff.org - DeepStuff Research from the University of South Australia is set to transform the common contact lens into the next generation of consumer …
Robots 'will make majority of humans unemployed within 30 years'independent.co.uk - Steve Connor The pace at which robots and intelligent machines are able to take over the jobs traditionally performed by humans will result in more than half the …
The Go Files: ‘Humanity-packed’ AI prepares to take on world championnature.com Nature reports from a battle of man vs machine over the Go board.
Play buttonRobotics Google's robotic arms are teaching themselves to do things and it's terrifyingTNW - Amanda ConnollyWhen it comes to robots replacing humans, we might think we have the upper hand since we’re the ones who build and program them but that’s not neccesarily the case anymore. Google is taking a different
Google’s Schmidt Sees AI Evolution As ‘Natural’ Despite Job DisplacementFortune - David Meyer Alphabet chairman Eric Schmidt acknowledges that artificial intelligence AI) will threaten many people’s jobs, but he sees this displacement as part …
Meet Viv, The “Giant Brain” From The Creator Of SiriFast Company - By Steven MelendezThe next-generation “giant brain,” from Siri’s creator, promises more intelligence than Apple’s digital assistant. Move over, Siri. Dag Kittlaus, the creator of Apple’s iconic virtual assistant, is working
Scientists develop artificial intelligence that learns as fast as humanInternational Business Times (GB) - India Ashok Scientists have developed a computational algorithm of an artificial intelligence system that has the ability to imitate human learning processes. In …
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The importance of human innovation in A.I. ethicsMashable - John C. HavensIntrospection has become a commodity. The idea that our ability to reflect has been outsourced to algorithms may seem hyperbolic. We assume we have agency regarding the choices we make, influenced by paradigm
Play button Rearranging jellyfish limbs may lead to self-healing robotsEngadget - Andrew TarantolaNormally when a jellyfish loses a limb, say to the jaws of a hungry sea turtle, it simply regenerates the lost appendage, no big deal. However, a Caltech research team has been studying a certain jellyfish
Deep-Learning Robot Takes 10 Days to Teach Itself to GraspMIT Technology Review - Emerging Technology from the arXiv Leave a human baby with some toys and it’ll quickly learn to pick them up. Now a robot with deep-learning capabilities has done the same thing. One of …
Play button Google and NASA are getting a new quantum computerThe Verge - Russell BrandomThe famous Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab is getting some powerful new hardware. A joint project between Google, NASA, and the Universities Space Research Association, the Quantum AI Lab today announced
WIRED2015: Artificial intelligence is evolving, says Antoine BlondeauWired UK - Catherine Lawson Antoine Blondeau worked on the project that became Apple's Siri. Today he runs Sentient Technologies, the world's best-funded AI company. He was …
