Artificial Intelligence

Predicting the future of hospitals

NLN — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:59:11 +0000

GE Healthcare is pushing a system called Corvix for doing agent-based simulations on complex problems. In India, the technology simulated a population of 80 million people in order to determine the best places to build medical facilities.

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Artificial Intelligence

Google Brain king slashes cost of AI gear

NLN — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:46:49 +0000

The architect behind some of Google's mammoth machine-learning systems has figured out a way to dramatically reduce the cost of the infrastructure needed for weak artificial intelligence programs, making it easier for cash-strapped companies and institutions to perform research into this crucial area of technology.

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Artificial Intelligence

The new thought police

NLN — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:58:53 +0000

The NSA wants to know how you think—maybe even what you think.

The National Security Agency (NSA) is developing a tool that George Orwell's Thought Police might have found useful: an artificial intelligence system designed to gain insight into what people are thinking.

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Artificial Intelligence

When sentient artificial intelligence becomes reality

NLN — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 12:37:12 +0000

Two things humans often do: We anthropomorphise, and we dehumanise. Which is, if you think about it, a rather curious dichotomy: when we anthropomorphise, we ascribe human characteristics to inhuman beings, and when we dehumanise, we do the opposite, denying the full and equal humanity of other members of our own species. The classic example of this is someone who invests deeply in animal welfare, but doesn't care about human rights abuses.

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Artificial Intelligence

How IBM could save your life through artificial intelligence

NLN — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:00:56 +0000

I attended IBM’s huge EDGE conference this last week, and the second day was devoted to the company’s strategic future.

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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence-it’s not just for RW Congressmen anymore

NLN — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:58:13 +0000

Pew Research on Tuesday released a poll saying 56% of Americans said: “Investigate Terrorism, Even If It Intrudes on Privacy.” These lambs, docily led to slaughter, are buried head down in their smart phones and tablets and support their government spying on them under the “America, Love It or Leave It” Archie Bunker sloganeering of the 1970’s. Why?

Because no one thinks THEY have ever done anything suspicious or wrong… or would ever become the subject of a terror investigation. Until they do and disappear.

Benjamin Franklin said:

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Artificial Intelligence

Anki takes AI and robotics to consumers

NLN — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:14:03 +0000

Apple gave the startup a coveted slot during the WWDC keynote event, and Anki used it to showcase what might be the most impressive demo of artificial intelligence and robotics ever.

When Apple turns over part of its oh-so-important Worldwide Developers Conference keynote address to an unknown startup, you can be sure Tim Cook and Co. think they're dealing with some very cool technology.

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Artificial Intelligence

Alarm bells ring as power of data miners starts to compute

NLN — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:44:13 +0000

The US government has poured billions of dollars into the National Security Agency over the past decade, building a fortress stretching over nine hectares in the mountains of Utah, apparently to store huge volumes of personal data indefinitely.

It has created intercept stations across the country, according to former industry and intelligence officials, and helped build one of the world's fastest computers to crack the codes that protect information.

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Artificial Intelligence

Intel sees incremental advances but no 'big brain'

NLN — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:56:24 +0000

In October, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency premiered its most ambitious humanoid robot contest ever: a competition to build robots that could replace humans in disaster areas like the 2011 multiple-reactor meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant.

Entrants in the challenge must design robots to perform feats of strength and mobility, such as removing debris and climbing ladders, as well as chores normally thought of as involving intellect: autonomous decision-making tasks like choosing which leaking valve to close.

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Artificial Intelligence

Local AI startup gets CIA-linked funding

NLN — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:45:44 +0000

Chicago-based Narrative Science, which specializes in artificial intelligence and communication technology, has received funding from an investment firm tied to the Central Intelligence Agency.

Quill's artificial intelligence algorithms mine large sets of data for key facts and write natural sounding English prose based on the data. It can produce a range of formats, from Tweets to long-form business reports, and Narrative Science's customers include companies in industries such as financial services and marketing.

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Artificial Intelligence

Soon, software that can read human emotions

NLN — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:21:46 +0000

If emotional reactions were measured, they could be valuable data points for better design and development. Emotional artificial intelligence, also called affective computing, may be on its way. But should it be? After all, we're already struggling to cope with the always-on nature of the devices in our lives. Yes, those gadgets would be more efficient if they could respond when we are frustrated, bored or too busy to be interrupted, yet they would also be intrusive in ways we can't even fathom today.

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Artificial Intelligence

Romanian student’s AI-driven car drives him to pole position at ISEF

NLN — Tue, 04 Jun 2013 13:18:43 +0000

Ionut Budisteanu may soon join the likes of Albert Einstein and Jean-Jacques Rousseau – a Genevan philosopher who influenced the French revolution – when an asteroid is named after him.

Budisteanu, a 19-year-old student from Romania who won the first prize at the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Isef), has made a viable model for a low-cost, self-driving car using artificial intelligence (AI).

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Artificial Intelligence

Automatically grading programming homework

NLN — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 12:50:01 +0000

Software that identifies errors in students’ programs — however idiosyncratic their approaches — could be a boon for online learning.

Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), working with a colleague at Microsoft Research, have developed a new software system that can automatically identify errors in students’ programming assignments and recommend corrections.

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Artificial Intelligence

Google erects fake brain with … graphics chips?

NLN — Thu, 30 May 2013 12:41:15 +0000

Your brain is a collection of neurons — tiny cells that use electro-chemical signals to send and receive information. But as Google builds an artificial brain that will help drive everything from its web search engine to Google Street View to the voice-recognition app on Android smartphones, it’s using very different materials. Among them: graphics microprocessors, the same sort of silicon chips that were first designed to process images and videos on your desktop computer.

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Artificial Intelligence

Meet the Egyptian entrepreneur trying to build a digital brain

NLN — Wed, 29 May 2013 13:04:14 +0000

"In order to achieve true Artificial Intelligence (AI), we have to make machines that are able to acquire knowledge in a scalable way, without human interaction, then use this knowledge to understand, answer questions, think and reason," says Egyptian entrepreneur and AI researcher Haytham El Fadeel.

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