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How to Steal an AI

IN THE BURGEONING field of computer science known as machine learning, engineers often refer to the artificial intelligences they create as “black box” systems: read more.

Google is making its assistant ‘conversational’ in two new ways

Today Google is announcing a “Google Assistant” that essentially performs the same tasks as other Google interfaces do, but in a conversational mode. Read more.

Artificial Intelligence: Growth, Opportunities and Threats

We are in the middle of a technological revolution. Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to fundamentally transform the world around us… Read more.

Join us at AI World Conference 2016 in San Francisco!

Ben Levy, BootstrapLabs’ Co-Founder will be on stage moderating the “AI: Innovation in the Enterprise” panel with:

  • Bill Loconzolo, Vice President, Data Engineering, Intuit
  • Donald Thompson, Founder, President & Chief Operating Officer, MAANA
  • Jordi Torras Founder & CEO, Inbenta

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Microsoft expands AI efforts with creation of new Research Group

The new group will be led by computer vision luminary Harry Shum, a 20-year Microsoft veteran whose career has spanned leadership roles across Microsoft Research and Bing engineering. Read more.

Industry leaders establish partnership on AI best practices

Amazon, Google, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft last week announced that they will create a non-profit organization that will work to advance public understanding of AI technologies and formulate best practices on the challenges and opportunities within the field. Read more.

Artificial intelligence: Disruption era begins

Artificial intelligence software solutions will likely be the top disruptor in technology in the next decade, like smartphones and the cloud. Read more.

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Investing in AI offers more rewards than risks

By 2018, robots will supervise more than 3 million human workers; by 2020, smart machines will be a top investment priority for more than 30 percent of CIOs. Read more.

The Next Wave of Deep Learning Applications

In the last two weeks alone we have seen research that breaks new ground in each of the following domains via neural networks and advanced machine learning frameworks. Read more.

Ten Myths About Machine Learning

Machine learning used to take place behind the scenes: Amazon mined your clicks and purchases for recommendations, Google mined your searches for ad placement, and Facebook mined your social network to choose which posts to show you. Read more.

Artificial Intelligence Software Is Booming. But Why Now?

It’s all very exciting, the way great possibilities are, and clearly full of great buzzwords and slogans. But will other companies see any value in all this or understand if A.I. has value for them? Read more.

Air freights, drones, and the Internet of Things: what is the future of the supply chain?

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, the global supply chain hasn’t really changed all that much. Products are made from raw materials in factories, shipped off somewhere else (either by land or sea), stored in a warehouse, and then distributed to retailers. Read more.

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Introducing Salesforce Einstein – AI for Everyone

Powered by advanced ML, deep learning, predictive analytics, natural language processing and smart data discovery, Einstein’s models will be automatically customized for every single customer, and it will … read more.

Angel.ai, a company that builds chat bots, acqui-hired by Amazon

The e-commerce giant confirmed that Angel.ai co-founder and CEO Navid Hadzaad has joined the company. “I can confirm that Navid started at Amazon, and that his first day was yesterday. Read more.

Infographic: The bot platform ecosystem

Behind the recent bot boom are big improvements in artificial intelligence and the rise of ubiquitous messaging services. In the graphic below, I’ve listed some of the most important AI.. read more.

Need Some AI? Yeah, There’s a Marketplace for That

It’s a legitimate worry. Elon Musk and Sam Altman are worried about the same thing. That’s why they created a startup called OpenAI. Read more.

Google acquires natural language understanding startup Api.ai

Google today said that it has acquired API.ai, a startup with tools for speech recognition and natural language understanding. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Read more.

 

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From Virtual Nurses To Drug Discovery: 90+ Artificial Intelligence Startups In Healthcare

In our quarterly analysis of companies pursuing healthcare-focused applications of AI, we reported that deals leapt from less than 10 in 2011 to 60 in 2015. Read more.

Walmart is patenting ‘mini-robot’ technology that could have terrifying implications for workers

Walmart was granted a patent for a new system that allows shopping carts to drive themselves, untouched by customers and employees. Read more.

One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100)

Stanford University has invited leading thinkers from several institutions to begin a 100-year effort to study and anticipate how the effects of artificial intelligence will ripple through every aspect of how people work, live and play. Read more.

Nvidia Chases Bigger (And Better) Chunk Of Burgeoning Artificial Intelligence Market

Nvidia is hungry for more of the artificial intelligence market. Already, its beefy graphics processing units (GPUs) are the standard for training deep learning AI algorithms. Read more.

Academics say the technology is letting policemen detect crime that hasn’t taken place yet

MINORITY CRIME REPORTS: Cops using artificial intelligence to stop crimes BEFORE they happen, researchers warn.. read more.

 

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How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence

For years, science-fiction moviemakers have been making us fear the bad things that artificially intelligent machines might do to their human creators.  Read more.

3 Magical Ways Artificial Intelligence Can Save Your Time

AI technology is making inroads into many different areas of your life, and it’s doing some exciting everyday stuff too — like helping you get through your day by making email more efficient and taking the hassle out of scheduling meetings. Read more.

Intel’s Latest Acquisition Is All About Giving Sight to Machines

Movidius makes system-on-a-chip (SoC) platforms that are designed to aid computer vision applications, and also has algorithms for things like deep learning, navigation and depth processing. Read more.

 

How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform The Delivery Of Legal Services

“The job market of the future will consist of those jobs that robots cannot perform.” Read more.

When artificial intelligence judges a beauty contest, white people win

The foundation of machine learning is data gathered by humans, and without careful consideration, the machines learn the same biases of their creators. Read more.

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The AI revolution is coming fast. But without a revolution in trust, it will fail

For the first time, artificial intelligence (AI) is moving into the mainstream, and thanks to the convergence of increasing computing power, big data and machine learning, it’s reshaping the world we live in and our relationships with technology and each other. Read more.

CIA to Spy on Earth Using Artificial Intelligence

Private conversations and moments might not be so private anymore following CIA’s latest plan. A CIA-linked firm is reportedly joining forces with Amazon. This is to spy on earth in an unprecedented detail. Read more.

How front-end development can improve Artificial Intelligence.

What’s holding back Artificial Intelligence? While researchers rightly focus on better algorithms, there are a lot more things to be done. In this post I’ll discuss three ways in which front-end development can improve AI technology: read more.

How AI and ML work at Apple?

So Apple moved Siri voice recognition to a neural-net based system for US users on that late July day . Some of the previous techniques remained operational — if you’re keeping score at home, this includes “hidden Markov models” — but now… read more.

UC Berkeley launches Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence

UC Berkeley artificial intelligence (AI) expert Stuart Russell will lead a new Center for Human-Compatible Artificial Intelligence, launched this week. Read more.

The first autonomous, entirely soft robot

A team of Harvard University researchers with expertise in 3-D printing, mechanical engineering, and microfluidics has demonstrated the first autonomous, untethered, entirely soft robot. Read more.

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AI Is Here to Help You Write Emails People Will Actually Read

Looking for an artificial intelligence that can write all your email messages so you don’t have to? Read more.

 

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, And The FDA

Current law does not really define the FDA’s powers to regulate devices that depend on advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, as applied to health care.  Read more.

 

Why AI development is going to get even faster. (Yes, really!)

The pace of development of AI is going to get faster. And not for the typical reasons.. More money, interest from mega companies, faster computers, cheap&huge data, and so on. Read more.

 

Why chatbots are so disruptive

Chatbots have been around for decades. There are 18,000 of them on Facebook Messenger alone, with over 1,000 chatting away on Kik in the past six months. Read more.

 

The rise of artificial intelligence in 6 charts

Artificial intelligence received $974m of funding as of June 2016 and this figure will only rise with the news that 2016 saw more AI patent applications than ever before. Read more.

What should the self-driving car do?

Welcome to the Moral Machine! A platform for gathering a human prospective on moral decision made by machine intelligence, such as self-driving cars.

 


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The head of Google’s Brain team is more worried about the lack of diversity in artificial intelligence than an AI apocalypse

But one machine-learning expert who is, after all, in a position to know thinks that’s not the biggest issue facing artificial intelligence. In fact, it’s not an issue at all. Read more.

 

Tim Cook Talks Artificial Intelligence, iPhone’s Future

Cook also defended the company’s progress in AI technology, pointing to the expanding capabilities of Siri, the digital assistant that Apple launched in 2011. Read more.

 

A.I. and chatbots will help you win friends and influence people

Imagine a Persuade button for every critical moment in your life. One click to send the perfect Tinder pickup line. Read more.

 

Dan O’Brien: The hopes and fears around artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race.” That is how no less a figure than physicist Stephen Hawking has described the risks posed by intelligent machines capable of thought and action. Read more.

 

The art of forecasting in the age of artificial intelligence

So when is AI better at predicting outcomes, and when are humans? What happens when you combine forces? Read more.


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What A Neural Network Thinks About Your Neighborhood—And Why It Matters

We hold certain truths about cities to be self-evident. That includes the theories put forth by urbanists like Jane Jacobs decades ago—like the idea that design elements such as.. read more.

 

Corporate Artificial Intelligence: Can Investors Control a “Perfect Profit Machine”?

As corporations automate, might the artificial intelligence that runs them one day simply decide to stop distributing profits to human owners? Read more.

 

M&A Wars: Google, Apple Are the Top Acquirers of AI Startups

AI startups have seen a rise in M&A activity this decade, from 6 acquisitions in 2011 to 34 in 2015. 2016 seems to have continued the trend, with 21 acquisitions so far. Google, Apple.. read more.

 

Four ways that artificial intelligence can benefit universities

There is no question that artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are entering the workplace in many graduate level jobs, and this trend is likely to continue and quicken. Read more.

 

Apple is buying a Seattle-area startup to get smarter about artificial intelligence

With artificial intelligence clearly the next big thing for the giants of tech, Apple is buying a Seattle machine learning startup. Read more. 


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The Rise Of Bots: A Timeline Of Major VC-Backed Bot Startups

Just this month, as of 7/28/2016, 7 bot-focused startups including stealth startup Begin and recruitment bot Wade & Wendy  raised their first VC funding. Read more.

 

Will Artificial Intelligence Make All Business Decisions?

When Google’ AlphaGo computer defeated a human champion in the insanely complex board game in March, experts were surprised by the computers ability to recognize patterns and make quick, instinctive decisions… read more.

 

Breaking The Barrier Of Humans And Machines

My kitchen opens up to my family room, where right smack in the middle sits Alexa, an Amazon Echo device. Read more.

 

41 Startups Bringing AI To Fintech

The competition in the space is heating up as several companies focused on core AI technologies, like Sentient Technologies and Ayasdi, are bringing their products to fintech, for applications.. read more.

 

What’s the Difference Between Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning?

Artificial intelligence is the future. Artificial intelligence is science fiction. Artificial intelligence is already part of our everyday lives. All those statements are true, it just depends on what flavor of AI you are referring to. Read more.

 

16 Open Source Deep Learning Models Running as Microservices

If you have ever worked with deep learning frameworks you know they require a good amount of time, knowledge and, most of all, commitment just to get them up and running on your machine. And, that’s before you have even built your model or trained your data. Read more.

 


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Tim Cook on How Artificial Intelligence Is Enriching Apple

Speaking at Apple’s quarterly earnings call, Apple CEO Tim Cook covered a variety of subjects, and one of the areas that he highlighted for investors is artificial intelligence. Read more.

 

AI expert says that Russia is on the verge of a ‘major breakthrough’ in artificial intelligence.

In the past six months, we’ve seen AI master the board game Go, write a short film script, and infiltrate Snapchat filters. Read more.

 

OmniEarth uses Watson to combat California drought

Leading scientists predict that severe global water shortages could impact more than half of the world’s population by 2050. Read more.

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The next big thing in Supply Chain Management

Imagine the endless possibilities of learning from 2.5 quintillion bytes of data generated every day. Read more.

 

Artificial Intelligence Is Setting Up the Internet for a Huge Clash With Europe

Neural networks are changing the Internet. Inspired by the networks of neurons inside the human brain, these deep mathematical models.. read more.

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Right Now, Artificial Intelligence Is The Only Thing That Matters: Look Around You

If there’s one thing the world’s most valuable companies agree on, it’s that their future success hinges on artificial intelligence. Read more.

How artificial intelligence will transform your business

In 2016, we use voice-recognition systems, driverless cars are being trialled and robotic hotel receptionists work in Japan. The advent of certain technologies… read more.

 

What Artificial Intelligence Can Tell Us About The Future Of Business?

In today’s knowledge economy, we tend to predict how a business is doing by measuring key components like sales, finance, and HR. Read more.

 

Artificial Intelligence Could Help Catch Alzheimer’s Early

AI algorithms used with MRI brain scans help distinguish between patients with Alzheimer’s and two early forms of dementia that can be precursors to the memory-robbing disease. Read more.

 

Microsoft’s UK CMO on artificial intelligence and his visionary inspiration

Paul Davies talks about what it takes to be a visionary and his expectations for the industry in the next ten years. Read more.

 

Artificial intelligence reveals undiscovered bat carriers of Ebola and other filoviruses

A team of scientists has developed a model that can predict bat species most likely to transmit Ebola and other filoviruses. Findings highlight new potential hosts and geographic hotspots worthy of surveillance. Read more.

 

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Robots’ debut in aerospace production lines create new human jobs

It may be the 21st century, but an aircraft final assembly line still has many hallmarks of a cottage industry. Read more.

 

London company uses artificial intelligence to brew the perfect beer

Say what you will about Google’s AlphaGo AI, it generally turned up to its championship matches sober.
Actually, most AI tend to stay away from the bottle – which makes sense given their lack of mouth, or digestive system, or sense of fun. Read more.

 

Google believes its superior AI will be the key to its future

Google is beginning to look beyond search to tap into some of the most lucrative and promising businesses in the tech industry: artificial intelligence and cloud computing. Read more.

 

We need to talk about AI and access to publicly funded data-sets

For more than a decade the company formerly known as Google, latterly rebranded Alphabet to illustrate the full breadth of its A to Z business ambitions, has engineered an annually increasing revenue generating empire .. read more.

 

Artificial Intelligence Could Help Catch Alzheimer’s Early

AI algorithms used with MRI brain scans help distinguish between patients with Alzheimer’s and two early forms of dementia that can be precursors to the memory-robbing disease. Read more.

 

Artificial Intelligence Is Setting Up the Internet for a Huge Clash With Europe

Neural networks are changing the Internet. Inspired by the networks of neurons inside the human brain, these deep mathematical models can learn discrete tasks by analyzing enormous amounts of data. Read more.


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Chatbots And Millennials: How Smart Brands Should Be Using Artificial Intelligence

This is the year of the chatbot. With the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), bots are responding to queries, helping users find products, and even troubleshooting customer service issues. Read more.

 

Intel, Google, GE, And Samsung Among Most Active Corporate Investors In AI Startups

Artificial intelligence dealmaking has exploded recently, leaping to a new quarterly record of over 140 deals in Q1’16. Read more.

 

18 AI researchers reveal the most impressive thing they’ve ever seen

This year especially, artificial intelligence (AI) has had a renaissance — Tesla pushed their self-driving autopilot out to all eligible cars, and Google and Facebook have both announced large investments in AI research. Read more.

 

Self-driving trucks: what’s the future for America’s 3.5 million truckers?

The race is on to get driverless trucks on the roads, and experts say the impact on professional drivers ‘is going to be huge’.. read more.

 

Toyota to build artificial intelligence-based driving systems in five years

Toyota Motor Corp is targeting developing in the next five years driver assistance systems that integrate artificial intelligence (AI) to improve vehicle safety, the head of its advanced research division said. Read more.

 

Intel Outside as Other Companies Prosper from AI Chips

The world’s leading chip maker missed a huge opportunity in mobile devices. Now the rise of artificial intelligence gives the company another chance to prove itself. Read more.

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