Source – sea-globe.com Human financial advisors may keep their jobs for a while, but they would be well advised to start considering a new career. On 7 June, Singapore’s regulatory body, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, released a consultation paper on how it planned to “facilitate the provision of robo-advisory services” in the city-state. By cutting out Read More
Category: Human Intelligence
Human Intelligence
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 – autonews.com Taking a human out of the driver’s seat requires putting a lot of humans to work behind the scenes. The artificial intelligence in computers that operate self- driving vehicles is developed using vast amounts of data collected from public road tests. But to be useful, the data must be extensively labeled — a Read More
Source – gineersnow.com Doctors are the only ones who can tell, or estimate, how long patients are going to live. Well, not anymore. That’s because artificial intelligence has become so smart that it can also do the same job. Researchers from University of Adelaide were able to develop a system which was able to predict patient 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 – digitaljournal.com Combating the human aging process, either for health reasons or reasons more attuned to simply living for longer, has occupied considerable amounts of scientific inquiry. The solution to combating cell aging may lie with artificial intelligence. The application of artificial intelligence is the research focus of start-up company Insilico Medicine. The medical technology company Read More
Source – techtarget.com Brandon Wirtz was supposed to be a fifth-generation teacher. Indeed, the founder and CEO of artificial intelligence engine developer Recognant is a teacher — of robots, not people — and not the factory floor variety of bots, either. Instead, Wirtz sees AI changing a very human process: human resources. To reach the place where artificial intelligence and Read More
Source – itworld.com You’ve probably encountered the term “machine learning” more than a few times lately. Often used interchangeably with artificial intelligence, machine learning is in fact a subset of AI, both of which can trace their roots to MIT in the late 1950s. Machine learning is something you probably encounter every day, whether you know Read More
Source – financialexpress.com “Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master,” said Norwegian Nobel Laureate Christian Lous Lange more than a century ago. As companies pin their hopes on chatbot and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, the big question the world is facing today is whether these neural machines would turn out to be friends or Read More
Source – economictimes.indiatimes.com London, Aug 6 (IANS) Humans prefer interacting with faulty robots significantly more than with robots that function and behave flawlessly, new research has found. For the study, published in the journal Frontiers in Robotics and AI, researchers examined how people react to robots that exhibit faulty behaviour compared to perfectly performing robots. “Our Read More
Source – the-japan-news.com The Yomiuri Shimbun Expectations for artificial intelligence are expanding, and people are making more and more attempts to use AI in a variety of areas, from finance and medical care to manufacturing. However, some are sounding warning bells and say that AI will eventually exceed the capabilities of humans. Shojiro Nishio, president of Read More
Source – blogs.scientificamerican.com Despite the rapid advancement and heavy investment in artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics, we still cannot put a human-like brain in a robot—not now, nor in the foreseeable future. It is a matter of physics. The human brain is made of bio-circuits with a massive number of interconnecting neurons—about 100 billion of them. Our brain Read More
Source – independent.co.uk Facebook has shut down two artificial intelligences that appeared to be chatting to each other in a strange language only they understood. The two chatbots came to create their own changes to English that made it easier for them to work – but which remained mysterious to the humans that supposedly look after 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 – macobserver.com This article I found showcases one current debate about the potential for AI doing evil. “Elon Musk fires back at Mark Zuckerberg in debate about the future: ‘His understanding of the subject is limited’.” What they’re debating is the future potential for AIs that can, for all practical purposes, duplicate and then go 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 – news.psu.edu UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Twitter may have started out as a way to connect to other people and share news quickly, but the social media platform is also a powerful tool, with the data generated representing the largest publicly accessible archive of human behavior in existence. Guangqing Chi, associate professor of rural sociology Read More
Source – blastingnews.com In recent years, the world saw how #Artificial Intelligence (#AI) developed and evolved into a very useful tool in different fields of sciences. AI became the latest technological catchphrase that could bring existential risks and impacts on the society. The evolution of AI technology has long been depicted in many science-fiction Hollywood films such as “The Matrix” and “Terminator.” Read More
Source – factordaily.com I second that. Artificial intelligence (AI) is pushing the boundaries of human imagination. Machines today are capable of doing a lot of things that we could not imagine doing 20 years ago. AI has changed the way we look at learning and inventing. From drug discovery to sports analysis to protecting the oceans, AI Read More
Source – jamaica-gleaner.com Looking at the future of marketing and new trends in business, Zachary Harding, local marketing specialist and CEO of Hyperion Equity, has invested in a 10 per cent stake in Blue Dot Data Intelligence Ltd. Blue Dot is a research and data intelligence company based in Jamaica, which was started a little over 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