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| Sun Oct 23 2016 | When machine learning redefines your job, you're going to like it Virtual reality may be generating most of the buzz today, but another major tech shift looms much closer on the horizon: machine learning. | From http://venturebeat.com |
| Sun Oct 23 2016 | Steve Wozniak on why he's pro-robot, anti-crowdfunding and so-so on Apple EarPods Asked to project into the future by a couple decades, Wozniak said he felt artificial intelligence and virtual reality would have the biggest impact on ... | From http://www.bizjournals.com |
| Sun Oct 23 2016 | This robot wants to have a chat about your bank account This one is named MyKai and was released by artificial intelligence software company Kasisto in June. Any question you ask sends the bot to your ... | From http://www.usatoday.com |
| Sun Oct 23 2016 | Customer Service Bots Are Getting Better at Detecting Your Agitation As artificial-intelligence systems such as those from Amazon, Google, and Facebook increasingly pervade our lives, there is an ever greater need for ... | From https://www.technologyreview.com |
| Sun Oct 23 2016 | Why a robot could be the best boss you've ever had Even though the most optimistic artificial intelligence (AI) enthusiast would struggle to persuade us that the technology to create non-human leaders is ... | From https://www.theguardian.com |
| Sun Oct 23 2016 | As artificial intelligence evolves, criminals won't be far behind The voice is computer-synthesized, a tour-de-force of artificial intelligence technology. Such a situation is still science fiction — but just barely. | From https://www.bostonglobe.com |
| Sun Oct 23 2016 | Crop damage, nip it in the bud We are using artificial intelligence so that machines can take decisions based on data supplied by the server and suggest remedial measures. | From http://www.thehindu.com |
| Sun Oct 23 2016 | What Happens When You Give an AI a Working Memory? The advance is a step toward artificial intelligence that is a little more human-like in its abilities. While the technique is limited for now, systems built ... | From https://www.technologyreview.com |
| Sun Oct 23 2016 | Why artificial intelligence will finally unlock IoT Interestingly, the current resurgence of artificial intelligence (AI) technology may provide an antidote to the flood of data today's digital world is facing. | From http://readwrite.com |
| Sun Oct 23 2016 | Stephen Hawking on the dangers of AI Stephen Hawking has warned artificial intelligence could wipe out mankind if we are not careful about it. Speaking at the launch of the ... | From http://www.ibtimes.co.uk |
| Sun Oct 23 2016 | An startup that uses artificial intelligence to stop banks dealing with terrorists raised $8.2 million ... uses machine learning and artificial intelligence technology to help finance firms do legal checks on clients to make sure ... | From http://www.businessinsider.com |
| Sun Oct 23 2016 | Is this creepy? Russian woman uses AI neural networks to bring her dead best friend back to life An artificial intelligence startup has developed a chatbot that lets you talk to the CEO's best friend, who died in November ... | From http://www.ibtimes.co.uk |
| Sun Oct 23 2016 | Washington Post to Cover Every Major Race on Election Day With Help of Artificial Intelligence The Washington Post plans to cover every House, Senate and gubernatorial race in the country on Election Day with the aid of what it describes as ... | From http://www.wsj.com |
| Sun Oct 23 2016 | This pop song, written with help from artificial intelligence, is actually super catchy Flow Machines is a project funded by European Research Council, and has created Artificial Intelligence tools that can compose music. | From http://www.geekwire.com |
| Sat Aug 27 2016 | Better Safe Than Quick Companies are eager to use artificial intelligence but cannot afford errors. They should put safety first, says ... | From https://global.handelsblatt.com |
| Sat Aug 27 2016 | Google is using artificial intelligence to compress images better than JPEG Small is beautiful, as the old saying goes, and nowhere is that more true than in media files. Compressed images are considerably easier to transmit ... | From http://www.pcworld.com |
| Sat Aug 27 2016 | Artificial intelligence can find, map poverty, researchers say A new technique using artificial intelligence to read satellite images could aid efforts to eradicate global poverty by indicating where help is needed ... | From http://www.japantoday.com |
| Sat Aug 27 2016 | Baidu Has Created An AI-Powered Personal Assistant To Deliver Smart Sports Commentary Through new, innovative uses of artificial intelligence, Baidu Research has created a personal assistant which produced machine generated, real-time ... | From http://www.sporttechie.com |
| Sat Aug 27 2016 | EU planning to introduce new text and data mining copyright exception for research bodies The exception would assist "public interest research organisations" and set out their rights to engage in text and data mining in both non-commercial ... | From http://www.out-law.com |
| Sat Aug 27 2016 | Intel teases geeks with 2017 AI hyper-chip: Xeon Phi Knights Mill For today's machine learning applications, the larg e memory size of the Intel Xeon Phi processor family helps customers like Baidu make it easier to ... | From http://www.theregister.co.uk |
| Sat Aug 27 2016 | A Tech Mogul's Fight to Keep Control of a Newspaper Empire He said in June that he wanted Tronc to produce 2,000 videos a day, a staggering number for a newspaper publisher, using artificial intelligence. | From http://www.nytimes.com |
| Sat Aug 27 2016 | Hackers Don’t Have to Be Human Anymore. This Bot Battle Proves It Designed by seven teams of security researchers from across academia and industry, the bots were asked to play offense and defense, fixing security holes in their own machines while exploiting holes in the machines of others. | From http://www.wired.com |
| Sat Aug 27 2016 | Rise of the robo-journalists? Google teaches an AI the art of writing a good headline Google claims to have overcome some of the struggles computers have with summarising text and to have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can write very good headlines. | From http://www.zdnet.com |
| Sat Aug 27 2016 | This AI Will Craft Tweets That You'll Never Know Are Spam The machine-learning system comes close to the roughly 40 percent success rate of spearphishing messages handcrafted to trick a specific person. | From https://www.technologyreview.com |
| Sat Aug 27 2016 | The HR Person at Your Next Job May Actually Be a Bot The company is using advanced machine learning and natural language processing techniques in an effort to create software that is smarter than the ... | From https://www.technologyreview.com |
| Sat Aug 27 2016 | US police use machine learning to curb their own violence A team at the University of Chicago is helping them feed their data into a machine learning system that learns to spot risk factors for unprofessional ... | From https://www.newscientist.com |
| Sat Aug 27 2016 | Machine learning: Clustering and classification on the campaign trail Clustering is an example of unsupervised machine learning, meaning that you do not know ahead of time what groups you are looking for... | From http://www.computerworld.com |
| Sat Aug 27 2016 | Machine-Learning Algorithm Combs the Darknet for Zero Day Exploits, and Finds Them Today, these guys unveil a cyberthreat intelligence-gathering operation that uses machine learning to study hacking forums and marketplaces in the ... | From https://www.technologyreview.com |
| Sat Jul 30 2016 | Google Using DeepMind Artificial Intelligence To Cut Energy Costs In Data Centers By Millions Google's acquisition of artificial intelligence startup DeepMind in 2014 has resulted in the search giant making a 15 percent improvement in power | From http://www.ibtimes.com |
| Sat Jul 30 2016 | Japan Trialling Machine Learning on Railways to Predict Delays Fujitsu said this week it has begun field trials in Japan for a delay time prediction engine ... | From http://www.datanami.com |
| Sat Jul 30 2016 | Banks switch from phone menus to robot advice Several British banks are ploughing money into artificial intelligence (AI) in the hope that it could start helping customer service behind the scenes in ... | From http://www.telegraph.co.uk |
| Sat Jul 30 2016 | How Auto Insurers Detect and Use Your Driving Fingerprint ... the way you drive is unique–sort of like a fingerprint. How fast you drive, how tight you turn... | From http://www.datanami.com |
| Sat Jul 30 2016 | Kickstarter campaign launched for world's first AI-written feature film AI will be used to generate a female-friendly plot for horror film Impossible Things | From https://www.theguardian.com |
| Sat Jul 30 2016 | How machine learning and F1 tech makes Sir Ben Ainslie's 'flying' boat go faster engineers within the fields of aerodynamics, machine learning and advanced data processing which are an integral part of the workstreams. | From http://www.ibtimes.co.uk |
| Sat Jul 30 2016 | Macy's tests artificial intelligence tool to improve service Macy's is testing a mobile tool using artificial intelligence that lets shoppers get answers customized to the store they're in | From http://www.msn.com |
| Sat Jul 30 2016 | Yahoo's anti-abuse AI can hunt out even the most devious online trolls The company used a combination of machine learning and crowdsourced abuse detection to create an algorithm that trawled the comment sections of ... Paperhere | From http://www.wired.co.uk |
| Sat Jul 30 2016 | The key to stopping Ebola? Using machine learning to track infected bats The machine learning model the team developed was able to create profiles of bat species likely to harbor filoviruses, based on the 21 bat species ... | From https://www.yahoo.com |
| Sun Jul 17 2016 | Chatbots Will Revolutionize Computing, Says Microsoft CEO Tech nerds and the people who invest in them are constantly waiting for the next computing trend, and chatbots have certainly captured people’s imaginations, as well as their wallets. | From http://www.inquisitr.com |
| Sun Jul 17 2016 | Tougher Turing Test Exposes Chatbots' Stupidity They are using the latest machine learning techniques, especially “deep learning” neural networks, to develop smarter, more intuitive chatbots and ... | From https://www.technologyreview.com |
| Sun Jul 17 2016 | Microsoft Mines 'Minecraft' to Study Artificial Intelligence In the pixelated cube world of "Minecraft," players can create almost anything their hearts desire. Now, Microsoft is using the popular world-building ... | From http://www.livescience.com |
| Sun Jul 17 2016 | Germany Is Using AI to Smooth the Fluctuations in Its Power Grid Researchers in Germany are developing software that uses machine learning to predict the amount of energy generated by renewables ... | From http://www.popularmechanics.com |
| Sun Jul 17 2016 | Artificial Intelligence Is Setting Up the Internet for a Huge Clash With Europe With a few paragraphs buried in the measure’s reams of bureaucrat-speak, the GDPR also restricts what the EU calls "automated individual decision-making." And for the world’s biggest tech companies, that’s a potential problem. | From http://www.wired.com |
| Sun Jul 17 2016 | IBM is making a music app that can create entirely new songs just for you IBM isn't the only tech giant working on making artificial intelligence more create. Google is training its AI to create new music as part of a new ... | From http://www.businessinsider.com.au |
| Sun Jul 17 2016 | Data mining uncovers the six basic plots of all stories If only there had been data mining around in Aristotle's time. The Greek philosopher was one of the first to try to define how many different stories there ... | From http://www.irishtimes.com |
| Sun Jul 17 2016 | Computers vs Ebola: Scientists use big data to predict future disease hotspots Researchers used a machine learning method known as “generalized boosted regression” to build an algorithm that can identify the patterns of ... | From http://www.theregister.co.uk |
| Sun Jul 17 2016 | Microsoft's Satya Nadella thinks these four technologies will reshape IT Chatbots, machine learning, augmented reality and cloud-based automation will be commonplace within businesses in the near future, Nadella told the company's Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto today. | From http://www.techrepublic.com |
| Sat Jul 9 2016 | This Robot Lawyer Has Gotten People Out of $4 Million in Parking Tickets The brainchild of London-born Stanford University student Joshua Browder, the artificial intelligence-driven chatbot has already gotten 160,000 ... | From http://www.inc.com |
| Sat Jul 9 2016 | Retired U.S. Air Force colonel destroyed in simulated dogfights by AI New Artificial Intelligence handily beat a retired United States Air Force Colonel in multiple dogfight scenarios. | From http://www.washingtontimes.com |
| Sat Jul 9 2016 | Robots on Patrol: Russian Borders to be Guarded by Artificial Intelligence The Russian border in the Far East and the South will be equipped with an artificial intelligence system which will be able to automatically collect and ... | From http://sputniknews.com |
| Sat Jul 9 2016 | Activists Cheer On EU's 'Right To An Explanation' For Algorithmic Decisions One of the promises of machine learning and artificial intelligence these days is the fact that we no longer fully understand why algorithms are... | From https://www.techdirt.com |
| Sat Jul 9 2016 | The White House Is on a Mission to Shrink US Prisons With Data Of course, data mining is not the forte of most local law enforcement, which is why the White House is also asking for the tech industry's help. | From http://www.wired.com |
| Sat Jul 9 2016 | One software engineer is using artificial intelligence to stop cats going on his lawn Nvidia has revealed how one of its engineers has used machine learning at his home to keep cats off his prized lawn. | From http://www.irishexaminer.com |
| Sat Jun 25 2016 | These are the 5 key problems Google is looking to solve with artificial intelligence Google has its fingers in just about everything these days, and the tech giant is making a hard push into artificial intelligence. | From http://www.blastr.com |
| Sat Jun 25 2016 | Data Mining Reveals the Crucial Factors That Determine When People Make Blunders Decision making is influenced by the complexity of the situation, the skill of the decision maker, and the time pressure. But one of these is much more ... | From https://www.technologyreview.com |
| Sat Jun 25 2016 | Computer watches human camera operators to improve automated sports broadcasts Human operators are adept in such situations, so the researchers developed new machine-learning algorithms to ensure automated cameras could ... | From http://www.sciencecodex.com |
| Sat Jun 25 2016 | Elon Musk wants to build you a robotic housekeeper In working on these different robotic abilities, Musk, the CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla Motors, said he hopes to advance the artificial intelligence ... | From http://www.computerworld.com |
| Sat Jun 25 2016 | Europe's robots to become 'electronic persons' under draft plan The draft motion, drawn up by the European parliament's committee on legal affairs also said organizations should have to declare savings they made in social security contributions by using robotics instead of people, for tax purposes. | From http://www.reuters.com |
| Sat Jun 25 2016 | AI Drives Better Business Decisions Many are using that sensor and camera data to build machine learning that can identify anomalous patterns and warn drivers before an accident ... | From https://www.technologyreview.com |
| Sat Jun 25 2016 | How Restaurants Are Using Instagram and OpenTable to Gather Data on Diners Blue Smoke, and Gramercy Tavern—said her team uses OpenTable as a data mining tool, which is not something the reservation booking site was ... | From http://fortune.com |
| Sat Jun 25 2016 | Artificial intelligence mimics judicial reasoning Computer programs can already match human judges in decision-making, a conference highlighting the growing use of artificial intelligence in law ... | From http://www.lawgazette.co.uk |
| Sat Jun 25 2016 | Scientists Have Built An Artificial Intelligence That Can Read News Stories And Answer Questions Soon you could be chatting with your computer about the morning news. An AI has learned to read and answer questions about a news article with ... | From https://www.newscientist.com |
| Sat Jun 18 2016 | Apple Rolls Out Privacy-Sensitive Artificial Intelligence Apple showed off a string of new features for the iPhone Monday powered by recent advances in artificial intelligence | From https://www.technologyreview.com |
| Sat Jun 18 2016 | Artificial Intelligence 'outsmarts cancer' Early trial data shows a drug developed using artificial intelligence can slow the growth of cancer in clinical trials. The data, presented at the American ... | From http://www.bbc.com |
| Sat Jun 18 2016 | Self-Driving Cars Will Teach Themselves to Save Lives They've learned to play games that even artificial intelligence researchers thought they couldn't crack. In some cases, as these machines learn, ... | From http://www.wired.com |
| Sat Jun 18 2016 | Apple bets on artificial intelligence with iOS 10 Apple put artificial intelligence at the centre of major updates to its iPhone and iPad operating system. | From http://www.wired.co.uk |
| Sat Jun 18 2016 | Distil says 50 percent of sites have increased anti-bot security brute force attacks, competitive data mining, online fraud, account hijacking, data theft, unauthorized vulnerability scans, spam, man-in-the-middle ... | From http://www.scmagazineuk.com |
| Sat Jun 18 2016 | Google's artificial intelligence could transform the way we make music The project has just begun so the only available tools now are for musicians with machine learning expertise. | From http://www.chicagotribune.com |
| Sat Jun 18 2016 | 'Sunspring' movie: An intense and thought-provoking film written by artificial intelligence The movie has been under the spotlight as the complete story of it has been written by artificial intelligence instead of normal human screenwriters. | From http://www.ibtimes.co.in |
| Sat Jun 18 2016 | MIT scientists built a neural network that can pass the 'Audio Turing Test' A new project by a team of researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) sets out to replicate this same kind ... What they have created is an algorithm capable of being shown a silent video clip of an object being hit and then selecting the appropriate impact sound. | From https://www.yahoo.com |
| Sat Jun 18 2016 | More than boots and bullets: This app could help turn the tide on poaching ... wildlife poaching and illegal logging doesn't rely solely on boots or bullets, but on a computer software application driven by artificial intelligence. | From http://www.latimes.com |
| Sat Jun 18 2016 | Artificial intelligence has helped detect secret code words used by inmates on prison phone calls The Intelligent Voice machine learning system is so clever that it taught itself to transcribe speech by analysing the inmates' phone conversations and ... | From http://www.ibtimes.co.uk |
| Sat Jun 18 2016 | US Spies Training Computers to Spot Suspicious Activity in Live Videos experts from many technical disciplines, including artificial intelligence, probability, person re-identification, and 3-D reconstruction from video. | From http://www.nextgov.com |
| Wed Jun 1 2016 | 'Care-bots' for the elderly are dangerous, warns artificial intelligence professor Many scientists have warned that advances in artificial intelligence mean we are heading for a time when computer 'thinking' passes that of humans, ... | From http://www.telegraph.co.uk |
| Wed Jun 1 2016 | New study suggests Americans don't trust AI systems That appears to be the opinion Americans hold when it comes to Artificial Intelligence systems. After all, there's something strangely artificial about ... | From https://www.yahoo.com |
| Wed Jun 1 2016 | How Beijing Is Using Big Data From Social Media And IoT To Improve Air Pollution Using the machine learning technology developed for Watson, we take huge amounts of data from weather stations, satellites social media, in Beijing, ... | From http://www.forbes.com |
| Wed Jun 1 2016 | Custom TPU chip amplifies machine learning performance Google started working on the chip because "for machine learning, the scale at which we need to do computing is incredible," ... | From http://www.zdnet.com |
| Wed Jun 1 2016 | Google AI produces a melody that rivals the Casio keyboard concerts But what if I told you that this was not an obsessively practiced performance by a precocious 7-year-old, but the original creation of an artistic artificial intelligence, the work of the boffins at Google Research (specifically, and naturally, Google Brain)? | From http://techcrunch.com |
| Wed Jun 1 2016 | Artificial Intelligence Replicates Nobel-Prize Winning Physics Experiment The tiny orange cloud just right of the centre is a Bose-Einstein Condensate created using an AI system. | From http://www.ibtimes.com |
| Wed Jun 1 2016 | Soon We Won't Program Computers. We'll Train Them Like Dogs Then, in the mid-1950s, a group of rebellious psychologists, linguists, information theorists, and early artificial-intelligence researchers came up with a ... | From http://www.wired.com |
| Wed Jun 1 2016 | Google Has Open Sourced SyntaxNet, Its AI for Understanding Language The hope is that this same breed of artificial intelligence can dramatically improve a machine's ability to grasp the significance of those words, ... | From http://www.wired.com |
| Wed Jun 1 2016 | IBM Researcher: Fears Over Artificial Intelligence Are 'Overblown' The debate over artificial intelligence has divided some of Silicon Valley's brightest minds. Companies like Google, Microsoft and Amazon are ... | From http://time.com |
| Wed Jun 1 2016 | One of the TAs in an Artificial Intelligence Class Was Actually an A.I. Fittingly, the class in question was Ashok Goel's Knowledge Based Artificial Intelligence, which aims to help students learn to build AI agents capable ... | From http://www.slate.com |
| Wed Jun 1 2016 | Machine Learning Helps Scientists Uncover New Materials With Desirable Properties Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory have successfully used a machine-learning algorithm to discover new materials with specific ... | From http://www.hngn.com |
| Wed Jun 1 2016 | Artificial Intelligence Turns $20 Into $11000 in Kentucky Derby Bet An artificial intelligence platform that has previously predicted the winners of the Oscars and the Superbowl has now won the holy grail of gambling | From http://www.newsweek.com |
| Wed Jun 1 2016 | White House worries about bad AI coding No one in government is yet screaming "Skynet," but in two actions this week the concerns about our artificial intelligence future were sketched out. | From http://www.computerworld.com |
| Wed Jun 1 2016 | Citizen scientists aid Ecuador earthquake relief Machine-learning algorithms employed by a team at the University of Oxford, UK, then classify the reliability of each volunteer's analysis and weight ... | From http://www.nature.com |
| Sat Apr 30 2016 | Elon Musk opens virtual gym to train your robots "We're releasing the public beta of OpenAI Gym, a toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms," wrote Greg Brockman ... | From http://www.computerworld.com |
| Sat Apr 30 2016 | This top scientist offers a solution for the havoc driverless cars may wreck on workers The world of artificial intelligence, acknowledges the unemployment concerns, ··· of the benefits of what he calls the golden age of artificial intelligence. | From https://www.washingtonpost.com |
| Sat Apr 30 2016 | A robot monk captivates China, mixing spirituality with artificial intelligence The wisdom-seeking hero of the Kung Fu Panda films, might recognise this temple in China where the world's first robot monk dwells. | From http://www.business-standard.com |
| Sat Apr 30 2016 | At this rate art, craft and creativity will soon be as obsolete as BHS But what is still studiously ignored is the inevitability that artificial intelligence won't change just how we see drama or what its plot is, but who will write ... | From http://www.theguardian.com |
| Sat Apr 30 2016 | These old black-and-white photos were colorized by artificial intelligence The researchers used artificial intelligence to classify a full image and then identify parts of that image to label its components before filling them in ... | From http://www.theverge.com |
| Sat Apr 30 2016 | No lawyer? This online tool uses AI to review your contracts Toward that end, it combines machine-learning algorithms with crowdsourced data, text analytics, and the knowledge of expert lawyers to make ... | From http://www.computerworld.com |
| Sat Apr 16 2016 | Artificial intelligence rules on agenda for G-7 tech ministers The government will propose the establishment of common international rules on research and development of artificial intelligence | From http://www.the-japan-news.com |
| Sat Apr 16 2016 | Artificial Intelligence Can Now Design Realistic Video and Game Imagery Artificial Intelligence Can Now Design Realistic Video and Game Imagery. A remarkable machine-learning trick that cleans up pixelated videos and | From https://www.technologyreview.com |
| Sat Apr 16 2016 | CaptionBot: Microsoft's new AI can describe what's in your pictures Microsoft has developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system capable of analysing and describing pictures automatically. | From http://www.independent.co.uk |
| Sat Apr 16 2016 | Google updates TensorFlow, its open source artificial intelligence The battle for the future of computing is a battle to bring artificial intelligence to the mainstream - and Google is quietly overhauling a machine learning | From https://www.theguardian.com |
| Sat Apr 16 2016 | Workaholics: Let Google's machine learning tool solve your work-life balance problems With the new Goals feature, Google Calendar users can leverage machine intelligence to find time to work out more, spend more time with family ... | From http://www.techrepublic.com |
| Sat Apr 16 2016 | Facebook bot platform to transform entire industries ... with their customers on its Messenger service, in the hope that opening up its artificial intelligence tools to companies will transform industries. | From http://www.ft.com |
| Sat Apr 16 2016 | Alibaba's AI Program Successfully Predicts Winners of Chinese Reality Show Instead, what captured viewers attention most was Alibaba Group's artificial intelligence program, which made its global debut on the program to ... | From http://www.billboard.com |
| Sat Apr 16 2016 | Combating Distributed Malware Through Machine Learning A range of machine learning techniques - supervised, semi-supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning - can help to extract actionable | From http://insidebigdata.com |
| Sat Apr 9 2016 | Computer paints a "new Rembrandt" and prints it in 3D The Next Rembrandt is an original portrait created with machine learning algorithms trained using the Dutch master's works. | From http://boingboing.net |
| Sat Apr 9 2016 | No artificial intelligence: Chinese restaurants admit defeat and pull plug on 'dumb' robot waiters A number of restaurant owners have chosen to fire about 10 robots because they were just not clever or sophisticated enough to do their jobs properly | From http://www.scmp.com |
| Sat Apr 9 2016 | Nvidia Unveils Massive Chip to Target 'Machine Learning' Nvidia Corp. is stepping up plans to expand beyond computer graphics into the field of artificial intelligence, unveiling an unusual ... | From http://www.wsj.com |
| Sat Apr 9 2016 | Microsoft's machine learning vision includes security, too Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella talked a lot about machine learning during his keynote at Microsoft Build 2016. | From http://www.infoworld.com |
| Sat Apr 2 2016 | Pentagon Eyes Deep Machine Learning in Fight Against ISIS There is huge potential for deep machine learning to become a valuable asset in the intelligence gathering space | From http://www.govtech.com |
| Sat Apr 2 2016 | Could DeepMind try to conquer poker next? In the pair's research, titled "Deep Reinforcement Learning from Self-Play in Imperfect-Information Games", the authors detail their attempts to teach ... | From http://www.theguardian.com |
| Sat Apr 2 2016 | Bank of Russia uses machine learning to identify unlicensed money lenders The Bank of Russia is using machine learning technology to identify unlicensed money lenders, and the websites hosting them. | From http://www.ibtimes.co.uk |
| Sat Apr 2 2016 | Japanese agency hires AI bot as creative director President & CEO of McCann Japan Yasuyuki Katagi said: "Artificial intelligence is already being used to create a wide variety of entertainment" | From http://www.netimperative.com |
| Sat Apr 2 2016 | An AI-Written Novella Almost Won a Literary Prize In the future, artificial intelligence may not just be relegated to the role of personal assistant or data analyzer: it may also make art. | From http://www.smithsonianmag.com |
| Sat Apr 2 2016 | Get ready for robots to become part of the family While Amazon is best known for its online retail operations, the conference's focus - which also included machine learning, home automation and ... | From https://www.washingtonpost.com |
| Sat Apr 2 2016 | Baidu Uses Map Searches to Predict When Crowds Will Get Out of Control The same group previously showed just how deserted some urban areas of China, known as "ghost cities," really are. | From https://www.technologyreview.com |
| Sat Apr 2 2016 | How machine learning will take off in the cloud Wix, a Tel Aviv-based web development company, is using machine learning on Google's cloud platform to learn more about its users so it can help ... | From http://www.computerworld.com |
| Sat Apr 2 2016 | How Google plans to bring AI and machine learning to the enterprise At its Cloud Next conference Google unveiled the Cloud ML service which helps machine learning engineers build "sophisticated, large" models ... | From http://www.computerworlduk.com |
| Sat Apr 2 2016 | Twitter taught Microsoft's AI chatbot to be a racist asshole in less than a day In an emailed statement given later to Business Insider, Microsoft said: "The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human ... | From http://www.theverge.com |
| Sat Apr 2 2016 | Data Mining Reveals the Four Urban Conditions That Create Vibrant City Life The lack of an evidence-based approach to city planning has ruined cities all over the world. But data-mining techniques are finally revealing the rules ... | From https://www.technologyreview.com |
| Sat Apr 2 2016 | AI in healthcare: Fascinating tech, but is it actually saving lives? ... user-facing robodoctors of the future, this behind-the-scenes legwork is the genuine niche where artificial intelligence can revolutionize health. | From http://arstechnica.com |
| Sat Apr 2 2016 | Defeated Go grandmaster wants a rematch against computer Yet the fact that he triumphed in the penultimate contest has apparently given Mr Lee hope that he can get the better of artificial intelligence over a new ... | From http://www.telegraph.co.uk |
| Sat Apr 2 2016 | In this online demo, IBM's Watson will tell you what's in your photos Image recognition is a hot area of research using artificial intelligence, and now IBM offers an online demo to let anyone test out the capabilities. | From http://www.pcworld.com |
| Sat Mar 19 2016 | Artificial intelligence will 'not completely replace' solicitors The president of the Law Society has stated that artificial intelligence (AI) will not make the solicitor profession redundant, despite predictions that robot ... | From http://www.solicitorsjournal.com |
| Sat Mar 19 2016 | Big Four accounting firms delve into artificial intelligence The machine-learning-based system studies what's important to reviewers in contracts and then identifies important information across large pools of ... | From http://www.computerworld.com |
| Sat Mar 19 2016 | Microsoft is using Minecraft as a testing ground for AI "It's a digital playpen for artificial intelligence," Diaz said. "It's an environment in which we can develop an algorithm for teaching a young artificial ... | From http://www.gadgette.com |
| Sat Mar 19 2016 | Machine 'Unlearning' Technique Wipes Out Unwanted Data Quickly and Completely Machine learning systems are everywhere. Computer software in these machines predicts the weather ... | From http://www.scientificcomputing.com |
| Sat Mar 19 2016 | AlphaGo bot bullies human world Go champion, takes the series 3-0 Deemed as a major breakthrough for artificial intelligence. ··· marking a major breakthrough for a new style of intuitive artificial intelligence (AI). | From http://www.hindustantimes.com |
| Sat Mar 19 2016 | Google's AlphaGo AI Beat a World Champion at Go, and That's a Huge Deal The Go-playing artificial intelligence computer system created by Google's DeepMind team called AlphaGo has defeated the second-ranked Go player Lee Sedol. | From http://www.popularmechanics.com |
| Sat Mar 19 2016 | Beagle uses machine learning to point out red flags in contracts Beagle uses artificial intelligence to scan a contract automatically for you, highlighting key areas like responsibilities, liabilities and termination rights. | From http://www.canadianbusiness.com |
| Sat Mar 19 2016 | Crimefighting for fun and profit: data-mining Medicare fraud and likely whistleblowers Medicare offers of a 15-30% bounty on settlements to whistleblowers laid the ground for Mininno's data-mining effort to ... | From https://boingboing.net |
| Sat Mar 19 2016 | Artificial intelligence designs better quantum experiments Quantum science is so difficult to grasp — even for scientists — that a doctoral student designed an algorithm to better design experiments. | From http://www.digitaljournal.com |
| Sun Mar 6 2016 | Amazon bets on voice as next platform Amazon is betting that the future of personal devices will be voice-based, as it puts more muscle behind its artificial intelligence service Alexa. | From http://www.ft.com |
| Sun Mar 6 2016 | Hackers Can Steal Passwords, But Not User Behavior For example, machine learning can be applied to profile and baseline the activity of users, peer groups, and other entities. | From http://www.information-management.com |
| Sun Mar 6 2016 | China's Baidu Hits the Gas in Race to Develop Driverless Cars The venture for the driverless vehicles, which can be remotely summoned and directed, relies heavily on artificial intelligence. | From http://www.wsj.com |
| Sun Mar 6 2016 | Google's Computers Are Making Thousands as Artists Google's artificial intelligence, or shall I say “painters,” raked in thousands for charity over the weekend in San Francisco at an art show. | From http://fortune.com |
| Sun Mar 6 2016 | Random Forest - the go-to machine learning algorithm Random Forest - the go-to machine learning algorithm that is considered to be one of the most effective and versatile in solving ... | From http://www.techworld.com.au |
| Sun Mar 6 2016 | Revealed: Pentagon's Plan to Defeat Russian and Chinese Radar With AI We're using artificial intelligence to learn in real-time what the adversaries' radar is doing and then on-the-fly create a new jamming profile... | From http://nationalinterest.org |
| Sun Feb 28 2016 | Google wants to predict the next sentences of dead authors Google is teaching its artificial intelligence how to understand language by making it predict, and replicate, the works of famous dead authors. | From http://www.wired.co.uk |
| Sun Feb 28 2016 | Google DeepMind works with NHS doctors on life-saving app Despite DeepMind being an artificial intelligence company, there is currently no machine learning involved in the project. | From http://www.telegraph.co.uk |
| Sun Feb 28 2016 | The Irony of Artificial Intelligence Solving Online Dating Frustrations Using artificial intelligence, Bernie learns who you find physically attractive, connects to your favorite dating sites, and matches with people who meet ... | From http://www.huffingtonpost.com |
| Sun Feb 28 2016 | Yahoo's Open Source AI Has a Secret Weapon Yet another tech giant is sharing its artificial intelligence know-how with the world. Today Yahoo published the source code to its CaffeOnSpark AI ... | From http://www.wired.com |
| Sun Feb 28 2016 | Nasdaq investment will let artificial intelligence guards oversee brokers, regulators and more The same company that has already received an investment from the U.S. surveillance community today added a new backer, Nasdaq, which will use ... | From http://www.bizjournals.com |
| Sun Feb 28 2016 | MasterCard's Machine-Learning Network Thwarts ATM Attacks Used by financial services firms and others to adopt sophisticated artificial intelligence to better understand customers, machine learning is moving ... | From http://blogs.wsj.com |
| Sun Feb 28 2016 | They use data to drive activism Data mining and visualisation can make even old BMTC route details look glamorous. "I was surprised to find that route 600, which nearly touches the ... | From http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com |
| Sun Feb 28 2016 | Inside the New Microsoft, Where Lie Detection Is a Killer App CEO Nadella is sprinkling machine learning like fairy dust on everything Microsoft touches. ... The lie detector, cobbled together from algorithms and a 14-pronged headset that measures brain waves, is a kind of party trick Marsman deploys to show software developers how to use ... | From http://www.bloomberg.com |
| Sat Feb 20 2016 | Why AI Can Still Hardly Pass an Eighth Grade Science Test An artificial intelligence competition that asked AI models to answer eighth-grade science questions announced its winners this week ... | From http://motherboard.vice.com |
| Sat Feb 20 2016 | An AI smart enough to speak at TED will win $4.5m There's just one catch: the speaker must be an artificial intelligence, which convinces the audience that it has mastered the art of the 18-minute TED ... | From http://www.wired.co.uk |
| Sat Feb 20 2016 | Why machine learning is not the silver-bullet solution to online fraud Machine learning has emerged as the best tool to fight fraud at scale, and merchants with the right instincts are increasingly turning to it for solutions. | From http://thenextweb.com |
| Sat Feb 20 2016 | Machine learning can help prevent repeat domestic violence offenses Machine learning is basically an algorithm that says, 'Determine which descriptions of individuals are strongly associated with the outcome,'... | From http://www.upenn.edu |
| Sat Feb 20 2016 | Big data model improves prediction of key hospital outcome By using the machine-learning technique and incorporating a large amount of variables we created a model that has the potential to ... | From http://news.yale.edu |
| Sat Feb 20 2016 | We'll Know Soon If Google Can Beat a Super Grandmaster at Go Three weeks from today, Google's artificial intelligence will go head-to-head with the real thing. Over the past 18 months, researchers at DeepMind ... | From http://www.wired.com |
| Sat Feb 20 2016 | The NSA's SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people According to the documents, SKYNET engages in mass surveillance of Pakistan's mobile phone network, and then uses a machine learning algorithm ... | From http://arstechnica.co.uk |
| Sat Feb 20 2016 | Researchers begin data analysis project on police brutality Stanford undergraduates who are interested in exploring data mining more generally can do so in Goel's MS&E class, Law, Order, and Algorithms, that ... | From http://www.stanforddaily.com |
| Sat Feb 20 2016 | Artificial intelligence could leave half the world unemployed, says expert Artificial intelligence could put more than half the planet's population out of a job, a computer scientist says. | From http://www.theguardian.com |
| Sat Feb 20 2016 | Streamline the Online Dating Process with Artificial Intelligence I won't be shy about it: I'm letting artificial intelligence do this for me. In exploring ways to streamline and improve the online matching process, ... | From http://www.nytimes.com |
| Sat Feb 20 2016 | Data mining flags four potentially risky drug pairs Data scientists, in collaboration with the Tribune, identified drug pairs associated with an increased risk of QT prolongation, a heart condition ... | From http://www.chicagotribune.com |
| Sat Feb 20 2016 | Google's artificial intelligence could count as a car's driver, federal regulator says Google Inc.'s self-driving system, controlled by artificial intelligence, could be considered a car's driver, according to the National Highway Traffic ... | From http://www.latimes.com |
| Sat Feb 20 2016 | Drones are being taught to search for missing people AI software works with quadcopters ... Swiss scientists have developed artificial intelligence software that can be used with drones to search forest and mountain paths and help rescuers ... | From http://www.dailymail.co.uk |
| Sun Feb 7 2016 | Mobile Fraud: Are We Winning the Wrong War? The world is moving to the use of big data and machine learning -- and that also includes organized crime rings and governments using sophisticated ... | From https://uk.finance.yahoo.com |
| Sun Feb 7 2016 | Artificial intelligence conquers 'most complex' game Experts have hailed a breakthrough for AI as a programme created by Google has beaten the European champion of the board game Go. | From http://www.bbc.co.uk |
| Sun Feb 7 2016 | Artificial intelligence could make lawyers more risk averse IT has wormed its way into almost every sphere of life, and the law is no exception. Artificial intelligence can now handle a lot of the drudgery of legal ... | From https://www.newscientist.com |
| Sun Feb 7 2016 | Political campaigns are infringing on your privacy, and they might be worse than retailers There is nothing that is off-limits to political data mining. The fleeting, impulsive nature of campaigns, he said, means they often have far less stringent ... | From http://www.latimes.com |
| Sun Feb 7 2016 | Rise of the machines put jobs at risk In particular, the combination of machine learning innovations with massive amounts of relevant data from almost any possible source could provide ... | From http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au |
| Sun Feb 7 2016 | How PayPal Boosts Security with Artificial Intelligence PayPal's security system-thanks to a growing reliance on an artificial-intelligence technology known as deep learning-is now able to spot ... | From http://www.technologyreview.com |
| Sun Feb 7 2016 | The White House Asked Social Media Companies to Look for Terrorists. Many believe that data mining is the crystal ball that will enable us to uncover future terrorist plots. But even in the most wildly optimistic projections, ... | From https://theintercept.com |
| Sun Feb 7 2016 | Why it is hard to teach robots to choose wisely Machine learning - the basic technique behind much artificial intelligence - relies on analysing large volumes of data to find patterns, in the process ... | From http://www.ft.com |
| Tue Jan 19 2016 | Robots will be all the rage at Davos this year In its "Future of Jobs" report, the WEF finds that things like advanced robotics, self-driving cars, artificial intelligence and "machine learning" will affect ... | From https://www.washingtonpost.com |
| Tue Jan 19 2016 | Fourth industrial revolution set to benefit richest, UBS report says Emerging markets - notably in parts of Latin America and India - will suffer when artificial intelligence and robots become widely used. | From http://www.theguardian.com |
| Tue Jan 19 2016 | Malicious coders will lose anonymity as identity-finding research matures Literature critics may know a writer by his style, in the same way a chunk of computer code is identified through a machine learning ... | From http://www.army.mil |
| Thu Jan 14 2016 | Yahoo has released a ton of anonymized user data to help machine learning scientists Machine learning is taking hold in all kinds of applications, from self-driving cars to image recognition to online recommendation engines. | From http://www.pcworld.com |
| Thu Jan 14 2016 | Can a Computer Write a Hit Musical? Thanks to Machine Learning, We're About to Find Out. The new show, "Beyond the Fence," is the world's first musical conceived and substantially crafted by computer. | From http://blogs.nvidia.com |
| Thu Jan 14 2016 | The founders of Google DeepMind are investing in a startup that lets you talk to a doctor Hassabis went to discuss the issue of ethics and artificial intelligence. DeepMind's third cofounder is Shane Long but he rarely talks in public and ... | From http://uk.businessinsider.com |
| Thu Jan 14 2016 | Are Japanese robots losing their edge to Silicon Valley? Even more significantly, machine learning and other techniques of artificial intelligence (AI) are becoming paramount as robots learn to respond to and | From http://www.ft.com |
| Thu Jan 14 2016 | Data, not algorithms, is key to machine learning success There has been an explosion in machine learning activity, and Shivon Zilis recently mapped out the current machine intelligence ecosystem. | From http://versionone.vc |
| Thu Jan 14 2016 | Microsoft must do better -- more questions raised over Windows 10 privacy Neither is it clear how much detail Redmond is going into with its data mining – as Brinkmann notes, when it comes to the questions asked of Cortana, ... | From http://www.techradar.com |
| Thu Jan 14 2016 | World's First In-car Artificial Intelligence Supercomputer Boosts IQ of Self-driving Cars ... artificial intelligence car computer features two next-generation Tegra processors and two next-generation GPUs to deliver ... | From http://www.scientificcomputing.com |
| Thu Jan 14 2016 | Will regulatory compliance drive artificial intelligence adoption? IDC predicts that "cognitive software," which includes artificial intelligence and other tools that offer intelligent advice and assistance, ... | From http://www.fiercefinanceit.com |
| Thu Jan 14 2016 | Super Mario Maker levels built by software using machine learning Programmers have used machine learning to teach machines how to build Super Mario Marker levels without any involvement from humans. | From http://www.thegamerscene.com |
| Thu Jan 14 2016 | After winning at Japanese chess, this computer may help decide loans Such advanced computers are able to apply a sort of judgment to the many trillions of potential moves a game can involve through a machine-learning ... | From http://www.japantimes.co.jp |
| Sun Jan 3 2016 | Robotic Mules Are Noisy, Wall Climbing Cars As technology advances, artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a bigger role in the solving of the world's biggest problems. | From http://www.forbes.com |
| Sun Jan 3 2016 | Symantec Adds Deep Learning to Anti-Malware Tools to Detect Zero-Days According to a Symantec executive, the company has been working to integrate the whole idea of machine learning into its security services | From http://www.eweek.com |
| Sun Jan 3 2016 | Artificial Intelligence Finally Entered Our Everyday World Andrew Ng hands me a tiny device that wraps around my ear and connects to a smartphone via a small cable. | From http://www.wired.com |
| Sun Jan 3 2016 | Google working on artificial intelligence messaging app Search giant Google is working on a new messaging app which will provide answers to the users' queries by using artificial intelligence. | From http://www.newkerala.com |
| Sun Jan 3 2016 | Artificial Intelligence Poses A Greater Risk To IP Than Humans Do Substantial thought and angst has been expended over the fact that artificial intelligence (AI) is coming to your workplace to take over. | From http://techcrunch.com |
| Sun Jan 3 2016 | 'Human Computation' Could Save the World Without the Risks of AI Forget artificial intelligence: The key to solving the world's most complex problems could be human-machine collaboration. | From http://motherboard.vice.com |
| Sun Jan 3 2016 | Are we being dazzled by the mindless brilliance of machines? Meanwhile a handful of twenty and thirtysomethings are getting unimaginably wealthy by fortuitously inventing machine-learning technology and | From https://www.newscientist.com |
| Sun Jan 3 2016 | The revolution in technology that is helping blind people see Advancements in artificial intelligence, along with the proliferation of sensors, mean a tech revolution is coming for people with vision loss. | From http://fusion.net |
| Sun Jan 3 2016 | Why Personality Tests Will Never Helpy You Buy a Robot The mechanical engineers building todays robots from titanium sinew are working in parallel with artificial intelligence researchers. | From https://www.inverse.com |
| Sun Jan 3 2016 | Real-Time Seizure Detection Possible with Learning Algorithm Real-time data can help train a machine-learning algorithm to detect seizures prior to clinical symptoms. | From http://www.neurologyadvisor.com |
| Sun Jan 3 2016 | Artificial Intelligence: What Will the Next 20 Years Bring? In Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig's seminal book, Artificial Intelligence: a Modern Approach, the two authors wind up their work with a chapter looking ... | From http://www.huffingtonpost.com |
| Sun Jan 3 2016 | NTU unveils Nadine, one of two robots with artificial intelligence software The New Paper NTU has taken Singapore a step closer to having emotive and intelligent robots not unlike C-3PO. | From http://www.tnp.sg |
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