Tom HigleyVirtual World ‘There’s Just No Doubt That It Will Change the World’: David Chalmers on V.R. and A.I.The New York Times - By PRASHANTH RAMAKRISHNAOver the past two decades, the philosopher David Chalmers has established himself as a leading thinker on consciousness. He began his academic career in mathematics but slowly migrated toward cognitive
Tom HigleyFourth Industrial Revolution How the future of computing can make or break the AI revolutionweforum.org - Ghida Ibrahim When it comes to technology trends, AI has been undeniably leading the way in recent years and is expected to continue to do so for decades to …
Tom HigleyPlay buttonGoogle Photos Google launches TensorFlow.Text library for language AI modelsVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonGoogle today introduced TensorFlow.Text, a library for preprocessing language models with TensorFlow. The open source machine learning framework created by the Google Brain team has seen more than 41 downloads.
Tom HigleySingularity How Far Are We From Achieving Artificial General Intelligence?Forbes - Naveen JoshiThese days, when you browse the internet for news on artificial intelligence, you’ll find out about new AI that just managed to do something humans do, yet far better. Present day AI can detect cancers
Tom HigleyTechnology Policy How A.I. Could Be Weaponized to Spread DisinformationThe New York TimesThe world’s top artificial intelligence labs are honing technology that can mimic how humans write, which could one day help disinformation campaigns go undetected by generating huge amounts of subtly
Tom HigleySiri Why Siri and Alexa Weren’t Built to Smack Down HarassmentWIRED - Noam Cohen That was Siri’s programmed response to a user saying, “You’re a slut.” And really, there couldn’t be a more perfect example to illustrate the …
Tom HigleyBoeing 'Aggressive and riskier' A.I. — and bureaucracy — caused the Boeing crashes, report saysMashable - Rachel KrausA new report from the New York Times details a bureaucratic mess, caused by the overhauling of an A.I. system, that it says is responsible for the two fatal Boeing 737 Max 8 crashes in Oct. 2018 and March
Tom HigleyCognitive Computing Less Like Us: An Alternate Theory of Artificial General Intelligencesingularityhub.com - Thomas Hornigold The question of whether an artificial general intelligence will be developed in the future—and, if so, when it might arrive—is controversial. One …
Tom HigleyBusiness Artificial Intelligence Isn’t Just About Cutting Costs. It’s Also About Growth.Barron's - P.V. Kannan and Josh Bernoff Automation strategy has historically focused on how machines can do the jobs that people do now. As artificial intelligence becomes more powerful, …
Tom HigleyGoogle AI How federated learning could shape the future of AI in a privacy-obsessed worldVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonYou may not have noticed, but two of the world’s most popular machine learning frameworks — TensorFlow and PyTorch — have taken steps in recent months toward privacy with solutions that incorporate federated
Tom HigleyArtificial Intelligence AI doesn't just beat humans in Quake III, it's more cooperative, tooTechSpot - The AI was trained against randomly generated maps to prevent it from adopting strategies unique to specific maps. Why it matters: Having taken the crown in the board game genre, DeepMind has shifted to something a little more ambitious. Gone are simple sets of …
Tom HigleyGear & Gadgets Generative Music Apps Let Your Phone Write Songs for YouWIRED - Arielle Pardes In the 1950s, experimental composer John Cage began to explore what would happen if some parts of a musical composition were left to chance. …
Tom HigleyArtificial Intelligence Thousands gather for the AI Everything event in DubaiEuronews - By James O'HaganIt is hard to escape the buzz around artificial intelligence right now. With more companies undertaking AI projects than ever before and new technologies making headlines on a regular basis, it is important
Tom HigleyArtificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence And Other Tech Innovations Are Transforming DentistryForbes - Bernard Marr, ContributorIf you’re like the majority of humans on the planet, going to the dentist isn’t on the top of your list of things to do for fun. But with artificial intelligence (AI) and new tech and innovative design,
Tom HigleyDeepMind DeepMind Can Now Beat Us at Multiplayer Games, TooThe New York Times - By CADE METZCapture the flag is a game played by children across the open spaces of a summer camp, and by professional video gamers as part of popular titles like Quake III and Overwatch. In both cases, it’s a team
Tom HigleySingularity World Economic Forum launches Global AI Council to address governance gapsVentureBeat - Khari JohnsonThe World Economic Forum’s Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution today created six councils to provide policy guidance and address governance gaps in areas like autonomous driving, precision medicine,
Tom HigleyThe Future This Animated Mona Lisa Was Created by AI, and It Is TerrifyingLive Science Mindy Weisberger is a senior writer for Live Science covering general science topics, especially those relating to brains, bodies, and behaviors in …
Tom HigleySingularity Use-case selection will make or break your AI strategy in healthcareZDNet - Forrester Research Implementing AI is a journey. Early success starts with the right use case selection and will set the stage for driving adoption and enable expansion …
Tom HigleySingularity 25 Machine Learning Startups To Watch In 2019Forbes - Louis Columbus• There are 8,705 startups and companies listed in Crunchbase today who are relying on machine learning for their main and ancillary applications, products, and services. • 83% of machine learning startups
Tom HigleyFlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logoAutism Autism is caused by kinks in 'supporting' DNA - not specific genes, major study findsdailymail.co.uk - By Dailymail.com Reporter Since the human genome was first mapped in 2003, scientists have been searching for specific genes that cause autism. But a new study by Princeton …
Tom HigleySoftware Development Here’s AOC calling out the vicious circle of white men building biased face AIFast Company - Mark SullivanAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is good at cutting to the heart of matters in her questioning of witnesses during hearings. That ability was on full display during today’s House Oversight and Reform Committee
Tom HigleyMicrosoft Microsoft wants to apply AI ‘to the entire application developer lifecycle’VentureBeat - Emil ProtalinskiAt its Build 2018 developer conference a year ago, Microsoft previewed Visual Studio IntelliCode, which uses AI to offer intelligent suggestions that improve code quality and productivity. In April, Microsoft
Tom HigleySingularity A.I. Took a Test to Detect Lung Cancer. It Got an A.The New York Times - By DENISE GRADYComputers were as good or better than doctors at detecting tiny lung cancers on CT scans, in a study by researchers from Google and several medical centers. The technology is a work in progress, not ready
Tom HigleyTallinn Can AI escape our control and destroy us?Popular Science - Mara HvistendahlSkype cofounder Jaan Tallinn bankrolls efforts to keep superintelligent AI under control. Tallinn, an Estonia-born computer programmer, has a background in physics and a propensity to approach life like
Tom HigleyTechnology The Week in Tech: Putting an A.I. Genie Back in Its BottleThe New York Times - By JAMIE CONDLIFFEEach week, we review the week’s news, offering analysis about the most important developments in the tech industry. Want this newsletter in your inbox? Sign up here. Hi, I’m Jamie Condliffe. Greetings
Tom HigleyGoogle AI Tomorrow's ‘general’ AI revolution will grow from today's technologyEngadget - Andrew TarantolaWe may finally answer the question, 'Siri, what is the meaning of life?' During his closing remarks at the I/O 2019 keynote last week, Jeff Dean, Google AI's lead, noted that the company is looking at
Tom HigleyTech Trends An AI Has Spontaneously Developed a Human-Like 'Sense' For NumbersScienceAlert - ADAM STANTON, THE CONVERSATION Numbers figure pretty high up on the list of what a computer can do well. While humans often struggle to split a restaurant bill, a modern computer …
Tom HigleySpeech Recognition An AI Pioneer Explains the Evolution of Neural NetworksWIRED - Nicholas Thompson Geoffrey Hinton is one of the creators of Deep Learning, a 2019 winner of the Turing Award, and an engineering fellow at Google. Last week, at the …
