AI

By Tom Higley

Artificial Intelligence

Opinion
Get Ready. 2019 Predictions About Artificial Intelligence That Will Make Your Head Spin
Forbes - Lauren deLisa Coleman
While the hip, ubiquitous business buzzwords are cryptocurrency and blockchain, the truly formidable factor of what is being called the fourth industrial revolution is Artificial Intelligence. Whether
Singularity
The 'weird events' that make machines hallucinate
BBC Future - Linda Geddes
Computers can be made to see a sea turtle as a gun or hear a concerto as someone’s voice, which is raising concerns about using artificial intelligence in the real world. The passenger registers the stop
Machine Learning
A Two-Minute Guide To Artificial Intelligence
Forbes - Parmy Olson
If you keep hearing about artificial intelligence but aren’t quite sure what it means or how it works, you’re not alone. There’s been much confusion among the general public about the term, not helped
Business Development
What if AI could do your market research (and outreach) for you?
medium.com
Joe BurkhartBlockedUnblockFollowFollowing Nov 27 AI is everywhere, but as I’ve written before, it won’t replace jobs in business development. Instead, …
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5 Important Artificial Intelligence Predictions (For 2019) Everyone Should Read
Forbes - Bernard Marr
Artificial Intelligence – specifically machine learning and deep learning – was everywhere in 2018 and don’t expect the hype to die down over the next 12 months. The hype will die eventually of course,
Deep Learning
The deepest problem with deep learning
medium.com
Some reflections on an accidental Twitterstorm, the future of AI and deep learning, and what happens when you confuse a schoolbus with a snow …
Deep Learning
Artificial Intelligence Hits the Barrier of Meaning
The New York Times - By MELANIE MITCHELL
You’ve probably heard that we’re in the midst of an A.I. revolution. We’re told that machine intelligence is progressing at an astounding rate, powered by “deep learning” algorithms that use huge amounts
Deep Learning
Making AI algorithms crazy fast using chips powered by light
MIT Technology Review - by Will Knight
Optical chips have been tried before—but the rise of deep learning may offer an opportunity to succeed where others have failed. Inside a small …
Artificial Intelligence
5 Artificial Intelligence Trends to Watch in 2019
Inc Magazine - By Young Entrepreneur Council
Let's take a look into the future of AI technology. By Jared Atchison, co-founder of WPForms Artificial intelligence (AI) is invading our everyday lives, but it's not as scary a concept as people once
Machine Learning
Amazon says it’s making freely available the same machine learning courses that it uses to teach its own engineers
TechCrunch - Connie Loizos
It’s Cyber Monday and Amazon has one deal for its customers that’s a little unexpected. The company just announced that it has made available, for free, the same machine learning courses that it uses train
Singularity
Breakthrough neural network paves the way for quantum AI
TNW - Tristan Greene
Italian researchers recently developed the first functioning quantum neural network by running a special algorithm on an actual quantum computer. The team, lead by Francesco Tacchino of the University
Artificial Intelligence
Finally, a Machine That Can Finish Your Sentence
The New York Times - By CADE METZ
In August, researchers from the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, a lab based in Seattle, unveiled an English test for computers. It examined whether machines could complete sentences like one:
Cognitive Computing
One of the fathers of AI is worried about its future
MIT Technology Review - by Will Knight
Yoshua Bengio wants to stop talk of an AI arms race and make the technology more accessible to the developing world. Yoshua Bengio is a grand master …
Deep Learning
A beginner's guide to AI: Neural networks
TNW - Tristan Greene
Welcome to TNW’s beginner’s guide to AI. This (currently) four part feature should provide you with a very basic understanding of what AI is, what it can do, and how it works. The guide contains articles
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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the World Economy
The Wall Street Journal - Irving Wladawsky-Berger
By Irving Wladawsky-Berger Artificial intelligence has the potential to incrementally add 16 percent or around $13 trillion by 2030 to current global economic output-- an annual average contribution to
Artificial Intelligence
A beginner's guide to AI: Algorithms
TNW - Tristan Greene
Welcome to TNW’s beginner’s guide to AI. This (currently) four part feature should provide you with a very basic understanding of what AI is, what it can do, and how it works. The guide contains articles
Opinion
A Smarter Way to Think About Intelligent Machines
The New York Times - By ED FINN
When it comes to the future of artificial intelligence, we seem to be stuck in a loop. We tell the same stories about A.I. over and over again: society is destroyed (the “Terminator” movies), the machines
Artificial Intelligence
The Genius Neuroscientist Who Might Hold the Key to True AI
WIRED - Shaun Raviv
When King George III of England began to show signs of acute mania toward the end of his reign, rumors about the royal madness multiplied quickly in …
Software Development
Andrew Ng launches ‘AI for Everyone,’ a new Coursera program aimed at business professionals
VentureBeat - Kyle Wiggers
Andrew Ng, a computer scientist who led Google’s AI division, Google Brain, and formerly served as vice president and chief scientist at Baidu, is a veritable celebrity in the artificial intelligence industry.
The Brain
How a key protein boosts memory, learning in the adult brain
Medical News Today - By Catharine Paddock PhD
A protein that plays a key role in early neural development is also essential for learning and memory in the adult brain. The protein, called netrin, …
Machine Learning
Index of Best AI/Machine Learning Resources
hackernoon.com
Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning field is getting a lot of attention right now, and knowing where to start can be a little difficult. I’ve …
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OpenAI launches reinforcement learning training to prepare for artificial general intelligence
VentureBeat - Khari Johnson
OpenAI today announced the launch of Spinning Up, a program designed to teach anyone deep reinforcement learning. OpenAI is well known for making funky-looking agents in virtual environments that learn
Researchers Created an 'AI Physicist' That Can Derive the Laws of Physics in Imaginary Universes
VICE - Daniel Oberhaus
Teaching AI how to combine smaller models to understand complex situations has been a major stumbling block for machine learning research. Two researchers from MIT have created an “AI physicist” that able
Machine Learning
Google says 'exponential' growth of AI is changing nature of compute
ZDNet - Tiernan Ray
Google software engineer Cliff Young explains how the explosion in deep learning algorithms is coinciding with a breakdown in Moore's Law, the …
To regulate AI we need new laws, not just a code of ethics
The Guardian - Paul Chadwick
The absence of a framing for the internet economy has already led to a widespread culture of disregard of the law Paul Nemitz On giant screens in the European parliament building in Brussels last week,
AI Weekly: Building AI-first companies requires more than hiring data scientists
VentureBeat - Khari Johnson
This week, VentureBeat held its annual VB Summit 2018, an intimate gathering of business executives to discuss the role AI can play in transforming their business. Throughout boardroom sessions and onstage
Why We Worry About the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
boozallen.com
As the capabilities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) grow more powerful, we are concerned the data science community is unprepared for the power we …
DARPA wants to build ‘contextual’ AI that understands the world
VentureBeat - Kyle Wiggers
We owe a lot to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a division of the U.S. Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies. The 60-year-old agency proposed
End of Life as We Know It
medium.com - Tadeáš Peták
In a world of synthetic minds with no bodies, bionic bodies with multiple minds, and genetically modified humanoids, what does a “we” stand for? Will …