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Consultancy.uk
April 23, 2018
Artificial Intelligence will change the way many industries create and deliver their products and services in the future, and energy provision is one of them. A new study from consultancy Roland Berger predicts that AI can reap efficiency gains of a fifth in utilities within five years, yet less than a quarter ofÃâà...
Which-50 (blog)
April 23, 2018
Although there is no simple, clearly agreed on definition of artificial intelligence, there is probably no-one who would call either of the above pieces of software (air conditioning and tax calculation) artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence is typically reserved for things that are either computers doing thingsÃâà...
Quartz
April 23, 2018
This story contains spoilers for season 1 of Westworld, and episode 1 of season 2. Westworld is back, and I'm more confused than ever. Watching HBO's robot drama is a little different from reporting on artificial intelligence, my job here at Quartz. Usually I'm trying to figure out whether some new AIÃâà...
Virginian-Pilot
April 23, 2018
Advances in artificial intelligence and automation could replace as many as half the nation's financial services workers over the next decade, industry experts say, but it's going to take a big investment to make that happen. James D'Arezzo, CEO of Glendale, Calif.-based Condusiv Technologies, says that'sÃâà...
GSMArena.com
April 23, 2018
Among other things, for a smartphone to be bang on trend these days it needs, a tall 18:9 display with minimum bezels (with a notch thrown in for good measure), a superb camera system and Artificial Intelligence and/or Machine Learning. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning are buzzwords beingÃâà...
Parade
April 21, 2018
Artificial intelligence, the top job trend, is here to stay and it's changing the face of work. If you've recently chatted online with customer service, had an X-ray taken or applied for a loan, you've likely experienced A.I., including “chatbots,” diagnostic imaging machines and loan algorithms. But the new wave ofÃâà...
Wall Street Pit
April 19, 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been able to uncover nearly 7,000 new craters carved into the surface of the Moon in a matter of hours. The finding, which was described in a paper on arXiv, was made by a team of researchers led by Ari Silburt at Penn State University and Mohamad Ali-Dib at the University ofÃâà...
The Conversation UK
April 19, 2018
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming many human activities ranging from daily chores to highly sophisticated tasks. But unlike many other industries, the higher education sector has yet to be really influenced by AI. Uber has disrupted the taxi sector, Airbnb has disrupted the hotel industry and AmazonÃâà...
The Diplomat
April 19, 2018
The artificial intelligence revolution has had, and continues to have, a profound effect on the lives of millions of people living in modern high-income economies. A young city-dwelling American today, for instance, is likely to regularly use a smart virtual assistant, such as Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa,Ãâà...
Quartz
April 19, 2018
Xi Jinping's bookshelf includes not only classics on communism but also works on artificial intelligence, as TV viewers spotted during his new year's speech this year. One of the books that helps the Chinese president understand AI is The Master Algorithm, a 2015 bestseller by Pedro Domingos. In a recentÃâà...
Quartz
April 19, 2018
Sometimes sensitive data, like passwords or keys that unlock encrypted communications, are accidentally left open for anybody to see. It's happened everywhere from the Republican National Committee to Verizon, and as long as information can be public on the internet the trend isn't going to stop.
C4ISRNet
April 19, 2018
Artificial intelligence is one of the key technologies, along with hypersonics and directed energy, identified by Griffin as a major focus for his time as the R&E head for the department. Part of that drive comes from the reality that Russia and, in particular, China have made whole-of-government efforts to investÃâà...
STAT
April 19, 2018
he FDA's announcement last week 1 that it approved artificial intelligence software that can identify diabetic retinopathy, a common eye disease, without the need for an eye specialist likely shook some doctors already concerned about this new technology. I don't think they have anything to worry about.
Entrepreneur
April 19, 2018
With the rise of artificial intelligence, several of today's larger organizations face the issue of restructuring. Several global companies believe their organizational design is less than ideal, but few know how to go about remedying it. The answer to this is to make sure the global workforce "upskills" to beÃâà...
Outer Places
April 18, 2018
Enter a group of researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), who've developed an AI program called RoadTracer that does just this. They've just published a new paper containing their work, and claim that RoadTracer can create road maps with 45 percent moreÃâà...
VentureBeat
April 18, 2018
Vishal Sikka, AI thought leader, received his PhD under the guidance and mentorship of John McCarthy, long acknowledged as the father of artificial intelligence. In his keynote address at TiE Inflect, Sikka will address the complicated future of AI. This generation's advantage in building artificial intelligenceÃâà...
HarpersBAZAAR.co.uk
April 18, 2018
It might sound unlikely that the answer to all your skincare questions is a selfie, but artificial intelligence is increasingly making that a possibility for women looking to improve their skin. Skin analysis applications that use AI-technology, like Olay's Skin Advisor, can provide you with a skin assessment in theÃâà...
Gizmodo
April 18, 2018
It's the story of a lonely princess, a talking fox, and probably some Transformers or something. Anything is on the table when artificial intelligence is used to craft a Grimm's bedtime story. Botnik Studios has teamed up with meditative app Calm to create a new Grimms-style fairy tale to add to its collection ofÃâà...
EW.com
April 18, 2018
The meditation app Calm teamed up with the tech team at Botnik to write a new Brothers Grimm-style fairy tale entirely through artificial intelligence. By inputting the data from existing Brothers Grimm stories and using predictive text technology (and with a few human writers stitching things together), theÃâà...
NewscastStudio
April 18, 2018
Artificial intelligence and machine learning were one of the many hot topics thrown around at this year's NAB Show, with companies hinting at its future potential to enhance workflows and create new efficiencies for broadcasters. For most, however, it was closer to a buzzword to show the potential futureÃâà...
Phys.Org
April 18, 2018
And it's an instance of artificial intelligence at work. These days, the computer algorithms that allow Netflix or Amazon to make purchasing suggestions are a normal part of life. But sometimes, it's hard not to feel a sense of awe when a machine – that square and immobile box in the room—connects with youÃâà...
Health IT Analytics
March 29, 2018
March 29, 2018 - The healthcare industry has innumerable opportunities to leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning in pursuit of more accurate, proactive, and comprehensive patient care. From reducing administrative burdens to supporting precision medicine, AI is showing promise acrossÃâà...
Finextra (blog)
March 29, 2018
The difference between humans and humanoid "creatures" will blur with the evolution of artificial intelligence and one will never know if the humanoid capabilities may even outstrip the human brain's capabilities, and one wonders if they will eventually take over the earth from human beings. Overall, theÃâà...
GeekWire
March 29, 2018
Artificial intelligence will get even more emphasis as part of the company's reshuffling of leadership and engineering divisions. In a memo to employees laying out the reorg, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called out AI as one of the technologies that will “shape the next phase of innovation.” He continues: “AIÃâà...
Science Daily
March 29, 2018
... deep neural networks based on machine learning and artificial intelligence. A team of researchers from the University of Muenster in Germany has now demonstrated that this combination is extremely well suited to planning chemical syntheses -- so-called retrosyntheses -- with unprecedented efficiency.
TechCrunch
March 29, 2018
Emmanuel Macron and his government are launching a big initiative around artificial intelligence today. They want to turn France into one of the leading countries when it comes to artificial intelligence. “[Artificial intelligence] is a technological, economical, social and obviously ethical revolution,” MacronÃâà...
The Verge
March 29, 2018
One of the biggest challenges in astronomy is also the most obvious: space is big, and it takes a long time to look at it all. This is why artificial intelligence has been such a boon to this science. It turns out that the same machine vision tools developed for tasks like guiding self-driving cars are also perfect forÃâà...
MIT Technology Review
March 27, 2018
Goodfellow is best known as the creator of generative adversarial networks (GANs), a type of artificial intelligence that makes use of two networks trained on the same data. One of the networks, called the generator, creates synthetic data, usually images, while the other network, called the discriminator,Ãâà...
The Hill
March 27, 2018
Several months ago, Vladimir Putin said, “Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind ... whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.” Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its sister technologies will be the engine behind the fourth industrial revolution,Ãâà...
Datanami
March 21, 2018
AI is poised to drive the next wave of technological disruption across industries. Like previous technology revolutions in Web and mobile, however, there will be huge dividends for those organizations who can harness this technology for competitive advantage. I spend a lot of time working with customers,Ãâà...
GamesIndustry.biz
March 21, 2018
The Game Developers Conference AI Summit concluded Tuesday evening with a rant session, a rapid-fire series of nine quick talks from various AI experts given a few minutes each to rail against whatever bugged them about the current state of the field. The rants ranged from practical advice (iterate, showÃâà...
ZDNet
March 21, 2018
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and predictive analytics applications may one day prove to be the key to maintaining control and preventing successful hacks, data breaches, and network compromise. These technologies encompass deep learning, algorithms, and Big Data analysis toÃâà...
ETF Trends
March 21, 2018
With the rapid development of Artificial Intelligence (AI), more and more ethical and moral questions arise. One of the most common is the extent to which we want to automatically let algorithms make decisions. From Robo-Advisors to optimize our investments to self-driving cars, there are possibilitiesÃâà...
Science Daily
March 21, 2018
"Artificial intelligence algorithms have the potential to change the everyday medical practices and offer the prospect of identifying new associations not yet detected by humans, which will be very useful for better understanding the complexity of the human microbiota," said author Dr. J. Luis Espinoza, of theÃâà...
DefenseNews.com
March 21, 2018
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, chair of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, introduced legislation Wednesday to prepare the government for the national security impact of artificial intelligence. In this Sept. 28, 2017, photo, Hanson Robotics' flagship robot Sophia,Ãâà...
Smithsonian
March 21, 2018
The “Dartmouth workshop” kicked off the decades-long quest for artificial intelligence. In the following years, the pursuit faltered, enduring several “winters” where it seemed doomed to dead ends and baffling disappointments. But today nations and corporations are pouring billions into AI, whose recent advancements haveÃâà...
GeekWire
March 20, 2018
U.S. News ranked artificial intelligence programs as part of its broader set of reports on the top graduate programs in the nation. In computer science programs overall, CMU, MIT, Stanford, and Berkeley tied for No. 1, while UW tied with Cornell University for No. 6. In computer engineering, UW tied for No. 9.
CNBC
March 20, 2018
Brokerage REX Real Estate Exchange uses artificial intelligence and machine learning instead of real estate agents to sell homes. REX computers crunch over a hundred thousand data points to find the likely buyers for a home and targets them with digital ads. REX also deploys robots at open houses inÃâà...
Fortune
March 3, 2018
Musk's frequent warnings about the dangers of artificial intelligence have touched on their possible use to control weapons or manipulate information to gin up global conflict. The physicist Steven Hawking, in a similar vein, has warned that AI could “supersede” humans when they exceed our biologicalÃâà...
OZY
March 2, 2018
In October 2017, Lyons was appointed founding executive director of the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence, a nonprofit started by the world's leading AI companies with the goal of ensuring AI is applied in ways that benefit people and society. The partners are among the largest companies shapingÃâà...
GovExec.com
March 2, 2018
As the public sector adopts new technologies to improve operations and service delivery, artificial intelligence and machine learning offer agencies new potential for improving interaction with citizens and making better decisions. But implementing AI well requires a focus on sound technology managementÃâà...
Freedom to Tinker
March 2, 2018
By that time, Brad argues that we'll be living with artificial intelligence. Digital assistants are already part of our lives, but they'll be more common at that time. Rather than looking at lots of apps, we'll have a digital assistant that will talk to us and tell us what the traffic will be like for us. Twenty years from now,Ãâà...
Entrepreneur
March 2, 2018
... is a “waterfall” approach to software development, where a significant amount of time is invested upfront -- requirements analysis, design and scenario planning -- before the software is ever tested with real customers. When it comes to the emerging potential of artificial intelligence, I believe failing fast is aÃâà...
Roll Call
March 1, 2018
Walker's assertions of U.S. strengths in AI come as Eric Schmidt, CEO of Alphabet, the parent of Google, has been warning in recent weeks about China overtaking the United States in artificial intelligence-enabled technologies across the board. At a Washington event in November, Schmidt said that theÃâà...
The Conversation UK
March 1, 2018
This is on the verge of being further reinforced by artificial intelligence, as current data being used to train machines to learn are often biased. With the rapid deployment of AI, this biased data will influence the predictions that machines make. Whenever you have a dataset of human decisions, it naturallyÃâà...
JAXenter
March 1, 2018
AI is coming. Adoption of artificial intelligence grew globally in 2017 in a variety of industries. But where is it heading? In this article, Kim Palko and Matthew Farrellee explain where they think this emerging tech is going in 2018. 2017 saw steady growth in AI adoption globally. Industries like financialÃâà...
Telegraph.co.uk
March 1, 2018
Terminator-style artificial intelligence scenarios are just "one to two decades away", according to Google's former chief executive. Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive of Google and its parent company Alphabet, has said he believes AI technology is developing so quickly it may soon turn againstÃâà...
Finextra (blog)
March 1, 2018
Artificial intelligence has quickly evolved from science fiction to digital assistants such as Alexa and Siri learning about our daily lives. A.I. applications are interpreting MRIs and will soon be operating self-driving cars. In personal finance, many of us interact with chat boxes on bank web sites. And in theÃâà...
The Japan Times
March 1, 2018
There is a tendency to see artificial intelligence as the latest technology fad, either a buzzword that canny entrepreneurs exploit or the starting point for dystopian nightmares. Both are potentially accurate descriptions of much of the discussion surrounding AI, but both miss the most important point: AI isÃâà...
Mashable
March 1, 2018
An artificial intelligence, developed by researchers from the University of Freiburg in Germany, has beaten the Q*bert arcade game by exploiting glitches in its design. SEE ALSO: An AI just beat top lawyers at their own game. In the game, players take the role of cartoon character Q*bert, who hops around aÃâà...
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