AI

By Tom Higley

Artificial Intelligence

Singularity
AI Algorithms Are Now Shockingly Good at Doing Science
WIRED - Dan Falk
No human, or team of humans, could possibly keep up with the avalanche of information produced by many of today’s physics and astronomy experiments. …
Machine Learning
Intel offers AI breakthrough in quantum computing
ZDNet - Tiernan Ray
Intel's senior vice president and head of Mobileye, Amnon Shashua, on Wednesday unveiled new research done with colleagues at Hebrew University that …
Technology
The man who helped invent virtual assistants thinks they’re doomed without a new AI approach
MIT Technology Review - Will Knight
Boris Katz has spent his career trying to help machines master language. He believes that current AI techniques aren’t enough to make Siri or Alexa …
Cognitive Computing
How Artificial Intelligence Is Changing Science
Quanta Magazine - Dan Falk
The latest AI algorithms are probing the evolution of galaxies, calculating quantum wave functions, discovering new chemical compounds and more. Is …
Medical Imaging
How AI will expand its footprint in medical imaging
healthdatamanagement.com - Simon Harris
At the recent annual conference of the European Society of Radiology, there were more than 25 independent software vendors, many of them start-ups, …
Artificial Intelligence
Three Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Drive Human Innovation
Forbes - Micha Breakstone
Over the past few years, businesses across many industries have been increasingly relying on artificial intelligence to deliver business value. According to Forbes, Gartner estimated that artificial intelligence
Cognitive Computing
Now any business can access the same type of AI that powered AlphaGo
MIT Technology Review - Will Knight
A startup called CogitAI has developed a platform that lets companies use reinforcement learning, the technique that gave AlphaGo mastery of the …
Artificial Intelligence
How Artificial Intelligence is Making Inroads in Scientific Discovery and Innovation
bbntimes.com - Naveen Joshi
Scientific discovery, for the most part, includes a close scrutiny of large volumes of data and speculative experiments. The artificial intelligence …
Artificial Intelligence
What Is The Best Book On Artificial Intelligence (AI)?
Forbes - Bernard Marr
AI is rapidly changing the way we live and do business, which leaves many business leaders feeling like they’re struggling to keep pace with developments. As such, business leaders often ask me for tips
Artificial Intelligence
Is Ethical A.I. Even Possible?
The New York Times - By CADE METZ
HALF MOON BAY, Calif. — When a news article revealed that Clarifai was working with the Pentagon and some employees questioned the ethics of building artificial intelligence that analyzed video captured
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Regulation May Be Impossible
Forbes - Michael Spencer
Artificial intelligence is a tool humanity is wielding with increasing recklessness. We say it’s for our common good with machine learning hype equal to business profits. But what happens when we don’t
Machine Learning
Superb AI generates customized training data for machine learning projects
TechCrunch - Ron Miller
One of the big challenges of developing a machine learning project can be simply getting enough relevant data to train the algorithms. That’s where Superb AI, a member of the Y Combinator Winter 2019 can
Artificial Intelligence
A Brief History of Computer Vision (and Convolutional Neural Networks)
hackernoon.com
Rostyslav DemushBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Feb 27 Although Computer Vision (CV) has only exploded recently (the breakthrough moment happened in 2012 …
Opinion
A.I. Still Needs H.I. (Human Intelligence), for Now
The New York Times - By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
BANGALORE, India — Fifteen years ago I came to Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley, to do a documentary on outsourcing. One of our first stops was a company called 24/7 whose main business was answering
Financial Services
Everyone Wants To Be AI And Data Savvy, But Few Are Ready
Forbes - Joe McKendrick
Artificial intelligence (AI) and big data aren’t just something quants and scientists can love. CEOs, CFOs and everyone else are also taking a shine to these technology developments as well. They see as
Machine Learning
GitHub: Numpy and Scipy are the most popular packages for machine learning projects
VentureBeat - Kyle Wiggers
Ever wonder which programming languages are the most-used in machine learning? How about which artificial intelligence (AI) and data science packages are tapped by developers more frequently than all GitHub
Machine Learning
Facebook’s chief AI scientist: Deep learning may need a new programming language
VentureBeat - Khari Johnson
Deep learning may need a new programming language that’s more flexible and easier to work with than Python, Facebook AI Research director Yann LeCun said today. It’s not yet clear if such a language is
Artificial Intelligence
What an American artificial intelligence initiative really needs
TechCrunch - Rudina Seseri
At a high level, the American AI Initiative seems to be headed in the right direction. We absolutely need a holistic approach that considers all the various areas that are critical to building innovative
Artificial Intelligence
OpenAI built a text generator so good, it's considered too dangerous to release
TechCrunch - Zack Whittaker
A storm is brewing over a new language model, built by non-profit artificial intelligence research company OpenAI, which it says is so good at generating convincing, well-written text that it’s worried
Technology
The technology behind OpenAI’s fiction-writing, fake-news-spewing AI, explained
MIT Technology Review - Karen Hao
The language model can write like a human, but it doesn’t have a clue what it’s saying. Last Thursday (Feb. 14), the nonprofit research firm OpenAI …
The Future
This story was written by an AI program
Axios - Kaveh Waddell
I wrote the first two sentences in italics below — they're from a story we published in Monday's Axios Future newsletter. Then, a new computer …
Artificial Intelligence
3 types of AI that represent our fears for the future
TNW - Gant Laborde
The AI icon Andrew Ng is quoted as saying, “Artificial intelligence is the new electricity.” For anyone reading this, that’s a powerful analogy. Electricity empowers our surge in science and globalization
Why We Should Fear the Technological Singularity
medium.com
“TechSin” brings troubling problems humanity isn’t prepared to deal with. Namely AI brings a trajectory beyond human regulation. Michael K. …
Technology
Two Pricing AIs Went Rogue and Formed a Cartel to Gouge Humans
futurism.com - Dan Robitzski
Two pricing AIs went rogue and formed a cartel to gouge humans Two Pricing AIs Went Rogue and Formed a Cartel to Gouge Humans VendorBot When the robot …
Technology
The AI Text Generator That's Too Dangerous to Make Public
WIRED - Tom Simonite
In 2015, car-and-rocket man Elon Musk joined with influential startup backer Sam Altman to put artificial intelligence on a new, more open course. …
OpenAI
OpenAI’s new multitalented AI writes, translates, and slanders
The Verge - James Vincent
A step forward in AI text-generation that also spells trouble OpenAI’s researchers knew they were on to something when their language modeling program wrote a convincing essay on a topic they disagreed
Artificial Intelligence
White House Unveils a National Artificial Intelligence Initiative
nextgov.com - Jack Corrigan
The executive order calls for agencies to focus on AI, but details and funds are sparse.
Technology
Here's What Happened When IBM's Advanced AI Machine Challenged An International Debate Champion
Forbes - Carmine Gallo
Aristotle broke ground by claiming that the art of persuasion—rhetoric—can be learned. Although Aristotle was right, he may never have envisioned a day when a machine could also be taught to argue. It
Deep Learning
A.I. Shows Promise Assisting Physicians
The New York Times - By CADE METZ
Each year, millions of Americans walk out of a doctor’s office with a misdiagnosis. Physicians try to be systematic when identifying illness and disease, but bias creeps in. Alternatives are overlooked.