Source – venturebeat.com Emotional intelligence (EQ) — the ability to pick up on what other people are feeling or thinking, primarily using body language and tone of voice — is a difficult endeavor, even for some humans. When a human misreads their fellow human, they could lose a friendship, a relationship, a job. Stakes are even Read More
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Source – venturebeat.com There is an old saying that speaks to the current state of AI: “To someone holding a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” As companies, governments, and organizations scramble to be in the vanguard of this new generation of artificial intelligence, they are trying their best to persuade everyone that all of our human shortcomings Read More
Source – techzone360.com Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most talked about and debated topics of conversation happening today. It is touching every industry – from consumer to automotive to financial to healthcare – and its capabilities only seem to be growing. According to Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, we are witnessing an “intelligence explosion,” Read More
Source – qz.com This is the third in The Vanishing University, a four-part series exploring the tech-driven future of higher education in America. Here are parts oneand two. Jill Watson is the best damn teaching assistant you could ever want. She fields hundreds of questions at a time from frantic 19-year-olds, always answering them in full and at record Read More
Source – techstory.in It is sometimes hard to imagine the progress that technology has taken in the past few years. Looking back over the past 30 and you are sure to be amazed. Where once artificial intelligence was a thing for sci-fi and fantasy, it is now a reality. We joke, uncomfortably at times, about the Read More
Source – yourstory.com Every single day, millions of dollars are being spent in call centres simply to answer repeated questions, thousands of times over and over again. Let us see how AI is going to affect IT service management. In this age of artificial intelligence, managers at all levels need to accept that a significant chunk Read More
Source – enterprisersproject.com Blockchain technology will be as revolutionary as the internet, or maybe even the steam engine, predicts Andreas Freund, Ph.D., a senior manager for Tata Consulting Services’ blockchain advisory. It’s a bold claim. But in the first part of our two-part interview, Freund makes a strong case that blockchain technology will, at the very least, change our Read More
Source – cio.com It’s getting pretty hard to escape Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). I don’t mean the impact that AI will have on your life — I just mean the idea of AI. In the business and technology press, a single day does not pass without some reference to the impact that AI is having — or Read More
Source – digitaltrends.com Distortions in space-time sound like they’d be more of a concern on an episode of Star Trek than they would in the real world. However, that’s not necessarily true: analyzing images of gravitational waves could help enormously extend both the range and resolution of telescopes like Hubble, and allow us to see farther into the universe Read More
Source – americanthinker.com When I look at Hurricane Harvey, I am amazed at how all the people who are involved should be congratulated. The first responders, military, hospital workers, power company workers, people who keep stores and gas stations open, maintenance workers, truck drivers, neighbors helping neighbors, and government workers have all responded wonderfully. Churches, Red Read More
Source – nypost.com Robots are coming to steal your reviews. Researchers at the University of Chicago have trained a neural network, or artificial intelligence system, to write fake reviews on Yelp – and it’s pretty hard to tell them apart from a human review. Their study, which will be presented at the ACM Conference on Computer Read More
Source – treehugger.com Apes’ abilities appear to be entirely misunderstood because research has failed to measure them fairly and accurately, according to a new report. I’ve always marveled at how shortsighted humans can be, especially when it comes to other species. We’ve got such a superiority complex that we fail to fully appreciate the remarkableness of Read More
Source – securityintelligence.com The chief information security officer (CISO) faces threats such as compromised users, negligent employees and malicious insiders. For this reason, one of the most important tools in the CISO’s arsenal is user behavior analytics (UBA), a solution that scans data from a security information and event management (SIEM) system, correlates it by user and Read More
Source – telegraph.co.uk Thie third and final part of a Telegraph series reporting from Toronto’s booming Artificial Intelligence sector where new technologies are being pioneered that will permanently change all of our lives In 1929, the economist John Maynard Keynes made a prediction. Over the course of the next century, he wrote, standards of living in Read More
Source – formtek.com This past July, the press headlined a comment by Elon Musk where he said that Mark Zuckerberg’s understanding of AI was ‘limited’. After Musk’s warning earlier in the year that AI potentially is potentially the most dangerous threat to civilization, needs to be used with care, and should even be regulated, Zuckerberg commented that he disagreed Read More
Source – ecudaily.com.au The thin line between human and robots is quickly being crossed. With the speed technology is developing and its impact in our lives, it may be safe to say that robots will be soon taking over. How would you feel if your best friend in your twilight years was a robot? Is one Read More
Source – economictimes.indiatimes.com BERLIN: Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence system that can decode brain signals, an advance that may help severely paralysed patients communicate with their thoughts. Artificial intelligence has far outpaced human intelligence in certain tasks. Researchers from University Hospital Freiburg in Germany led by neuroscientist Tonio Ball showed how a self-learning Read More
Source – insidehpc.com While artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning are often thought of as being interchangeable, they do in fact relate to very different concepts. It all began in the 1950s with AI and the idea that a computer could be made to simulate human learning and intelligence. A subclass of that is Read More
Source – techcrunch.com Yet these victories, as mind-blowing as they seemed to be, were more about training algorithms and using brute-force computational strength than any real intelligence. Former MIT robotics professor Rodney Brooks, who was one of the founders of iRobot and later Rethink Robotics, reminded us at the TechCrunch Robotics Session at MIT last week that training Read More
Source – ciodive.com Dive Brief: Artificial intelligence can only reach its full potential with the help of human traits, says Demis Hassabis, founder of DeepMind, and coauthors in a paper published Friday in Neuron, according to Technology Review. The authors say improving AI will require better understanding of how the brain works. AI startup Deep Mind was purchased Read More
Source – nanalyze.com The Chinese are pretty much on a tear lately, having announced a few days ago that they plan to achieve global dominance in AI by 2030. The Chinese have traditionally been “not so very good” when it comes to translating English, but have recently committed to changing that, perhaps, because they know it is an important Read More
Source – sfchronicle.com As an artificial intelligence researcher, I often come across the idea that many people are afraid of what AI might bring. It’s perhaps unsurprising, given both history and the entertainment industry, that we might be afraid of a cybernetic takeover that forces us to live locked away, “Matrix”-like, as some sort of human Read More