Source – marketwatch.com Will artificial intelligence make humans superfluous? 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 Read More

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Source – investors.com loud computing leaders Amazon.com (AMZN), Microsoft (MSFT) and Google, along with internet giants, have the inside track in monetizing artificial intelligence technology, a Mizuho Securities report says, but enterprise software providers also will grab a piece of the action. At a basic level, artificial intelligence is the use of computer algorithms to attempt to replicate the human Read More

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Source – infoq.com Google uses a clustering algorithm to automatically analyze Android apps and detect which ones can be considered intrusive, write Google security engineers Martin Pelikan, Giles Hogben, and Ulfar Erlingsson. Intrusive apps are those that require the user to grant a larger set of capabilities than what would be strictly required for their proper functioning. For Read More

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Source – dataconomy.com The creation and consumption of data continues to rapidly grow around the globe with large investment in big data analytics hardware, software, and services. The availability of large data sets is one of the core reasons that Deep Learning, a sub-set of artificial intelligence (AI), has recently emerged as the hottest tech trend. Huge Read More

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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

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Source – pacetoday.com.au Self-learning machines and smart robots are the basis for future technologies in many industries. AI gives computers humanoid and cognitive abilities that can lead to an increase in productivity. In addition, machine learning (ML) systems are employed to assess problems and needs and resolve them accordingly. In recent years, extensive progress has been Read More

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Source – home.bt.com Google’s artificial intelligence company has created a program capable of teaching itself how to walk and jump without prior input. DeepMind’s website says it is on a “scientific mission” to push boundaries in AI. Their latest creation was capable of making an avatar overcome a series of obstacles simply by giving them an Read More

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Source – sciencemag.org Can you imagine watching 20,000 videos, 16 minutes apiece, of fruit flies walking, grooming, and chasing mates? Fortunately, you don’t have to, because scientists have designed a computer program that can do it faster. Aided by artificial intelligence, researchers have made 100 billion annotations of behavior from 400,000 flies to create a collection Read More

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Source – investopedia.com Microsoft Corp. is pushing further into the artificial intelligence market, announcing a new lab dubbed Microsoft Research AI, which is aimed at developing more general-purpose learning systems. The lab, which will be located at its Redmond, Wash., headquarters will house more than 100 scientists from all areas of AI: learning, natural language, perception and reasoning. The Read More

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Source – prnewswire.com The breakneck speed of innovations in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) over the past few decades has radically transformed the way businesses, individuals and even things such as physical devices operate and interact with each other. Post digitization, “intelligence” is being viewed as the next step in IT evolution, with disruptive technologies being developed and Read More

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Source – financialexpress.com Tech giant Microsoft has released an iPhone app, including in India, that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help the blind and visually impaired see the world around them like never before. The free ‘Seeing AI’ app, can read out short snippets of text, describe people, identify products and currency denominations, and take a stab at Read More

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Source – searchbusinessanalytics.techtarget.com Data scientists apply machine learning and artificial intelligence algorithms to ever-increasing mounds of data in an attempt to tease out gold nuggets of information that can be used for business benefits. But, while there may be some case studies in which companies boast about their analytics achievements, one might ask how successful the data Read More

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Source – huffingtonpost.com Artificial Intelligence or AI can create dynamic content. Let’s apply best use cases to our work as storytellers. At this year’s Wimbledon Tennis Tournament, for example, IBM’s artificial intelligence platform, Watson, had a major editorial role — analyzing and curating the best moments and data points from the matches, producing “Cognitive Highlight” videos, tagging Read More

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Source – techrepublic.com Though everyone seems to be piling on the machine learning bandwagon, it’s a game that only the rich can play, as I’ve written. While open source machine learning projects like Google’s TensorFlow and Amazon’s DSSTNE lower the bar to would-be machine learning engineers, resolving the skills deficit that Gartner analyst Merv Adrian called the Read More

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Source – forbes.com This week a report by PwC found that artificial intelligence could add as much as $15.7 trillion – around same as the combined output of China and India – to the global economy by 2030. Everyone is in agreement that it is a technology which can change the world, and from space exploration to countering terrorism and even creating art, Read More

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Source – engineeringnews.co.za Big data and analytics stand to play an increasingly important role in the future of the mining industry as latest trends such as the Internet of Things (IoT) spurs on continuous innovation. Only 1% to 5% of the data generated by the mining industry is actually used for prediction and optimisation, said Jeanne Els, Regional Director, Digital Mining Australasia at the Hatch Intelligent Mining Conference 2017 Read More

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