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AI, Analysis, Animals, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Who’s a good AI? Dog-based data creates a canine machine learning system

April 14, 2018

We’ve trained machine learning systems to identify objects, navigate streets and recognize facial expressions, but as difficult as they may be, they don’t even touch the level of sophistication required to simulate, for example, a dog. Well, this project aims to do just that — in a very limited way, of course. By observing the behavior of A Very Good Girl, this AI learned the rudiments of how to act like a dog.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Business, Housing, Insurance, Space

This data startup uses artificial intelligence to figure out if your roof is in decent shape

April 10, 2018

When you first buy a house, your insurance company doesn’t know very much about it or how much insuring it will cost. That’s because it first has to send out an inspector to look at the exterior of your house, take measurements, and check out your roof to see what kind of shape it’s in.

Cape Analytics, a Mountain View-based data analytics startup, aims to change all that. Its API-pipeline can feed an insurance company information about a house’s exterior square footage, roof type, roof condition, changes in a home and more – all thanks to the use of machine learning to analyze aerial imagery.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Future, Human Behavior

How We’ll Survive When Artificial Intelligence Gets Smarter Than Us

April 4, 2018

Physicist Max Tegmark has borne witness to the rise of artificial intelligence and insists that we start thinking about what it means for humanity—before machines decide for us.

The artificial intelligence revolution is here, and MIT physics professor Max Tegmark believes the implications are vaster than most of us imagine. Tegmark, cofounder and president of the Future of Life Institute, believes that as technology gives us the power to flourish or self-destruct, “We prefer the former.” In Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, he lays out both utopian and dystopian visions of a world dominated by AI. His prescription for the day we cease being Earth’s most intelligent minds? Humility.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Big Problems, Technological Unemployment

Automation, New Morality and a ‘Global Useless Class’

March 22, 2018

LONDON — What will our future look like — not in a century but in a mere two decades?

Terrifying, if you’re to believe Yuval Noah Harari, the Israeli historian and author of “Sapiens” and “Homo Deus,” a pair of audacious books that offer a sweeping history of humankind and a forecast of what lies ahead: an age of algorithms and technology that could see us transformed into “super-humans” with godlike qualities.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, communication, Microsoft

A new AI breakthrough will soon make it much easier to communicate with anyone in the world

March 20, 2018

Machines are getting much better at the jobs we humans normally do.

As any translator will tell you, transforming the words from one language into another is a task that draws on an enormous reservoir of training, experience, and art.

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Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Farming, Farms

The incredible ways John Deere is using artificial intelligence to transform farming

March 16, 2018

Pesticides are currently an essential ingredient of big agriculture in order to ensure we can continue to feed the ever-growing global population of our planet.

However, pesticides also carry inherent risks, such as the damage they can do to the environment and local ecosystems, and the hazards that over-exposure can pose to human health. Their production and distribution also has environmental costs, as well as financial costs to the farmers. For this reason, when they must be used, there are a lot of good reasons that they should be used efficiently, and accurately.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Entertainment, Games

Fox to kick off the human-robot war with a new AI-based game show

March 13, 2018

As children, most of us humans are taught not to be a “sore loser” by throwing some kind of tantrum when we lose a competition. The idea of gracefully accepting defeat forms the basis of friendship, democracy, and game shows, but Fox is risking the sanctity of all of that by developing a new show in which humans must compete against malevolent entities that know nothing about the danger of being a sore loser. We are talking, of course, about evil robots—or at least neutral robots that have the potential to become evil.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence, Machine Learning

Paul Allen wants to teach machines common sense

March 15, 2018

“To make real progress in A.I., we have to overcome the big challenges in the area of common sense,” said Paul Allen, who founded Microsoft in the 1970s with Bill Gates.

Microsoft’s co-founder Paul Allen said Wednesday that he was pumping an additional $125 million into his nonprofit computer research lab for an ambitious new effort to teach machines “common sense.”

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AI, Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Game Development

Baidu’s new A.I. can mimic your voice after listening to it for just one minute

March 8, 2018

We’re not in the business of writing regularly about “fake” news, but it’s hard not to be concerned about the kind of mimicry technology is making possible. First, researchers developed deep learning-based artificial intelligence (A.I.) that can superimpose one person’s face onto another person’s body. Now, researchers at Chinese search giant Baidu have created an A.I. they claim can learn to accurately mimic your voice — based on less than a minute’s worth of listening to it.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Future, Latest Trend, Science & Technology News, Shopping, Technological Unemployment

Unexpected ways that Artificial Intelligence will change your life in the next ten years

March 1, 2018

The future of artificial intelligence is both exciting and terrifying. It’s development will have an impact on your life over the next ten years, in more ways than one. While yes, it will have many positive impacts, The Malicious Use of Artificial Intelligence report recently warned that artificial intelligence could also be exploited by criminals and terrorists for negative use. We know, pretty scary stuff, right?

We wanted to delve a little deeper into the future of AI, so we spoke to some experts working in the industry about how it’s expected to affect your dating, work and personal life very soon…

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3D Printer, Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Inventions, New Inventions, new technology, Science & Technology News

The top 10 breakthrough technologies and the key players leading the charge, according to MIT Technology Review

February 28, 2018

Every fall, MIT Technology Review’s editors get together to begin the months-long process of reviewing their coverage. The goal? To create a list of the top ten technological advances from the last year that will have the greatest longterm global impact on consumers.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Future, Human Behavior, new technology

Technology isn’t just changing society — it’s changing what it means to be human

February 27, 2018

Is there something unusual about the pace and nature of technological change today? Should we be more worried about the world we’re creating?

Michael Bess is a historian of science at Vanderbilt University and the author of Our Grandchildren Redesigned: Life in a Bioengineered Society. His book offers a sweeping look at our genetically modified future, a future as terrifying as it is promising. But he’s also someone who thinks a lot about the broader relationship between technology and society.

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