Category Archives: AI
China: Increasing Investments in AI, Big Data and Digital Health
Gartner: Despite the slowdown in GDP growth to 6.9 percent in 2015, China is still making aggressive investments to drive the adoption of high technology by local enterprises and organizations, according to Gartner, Inc… The massive consumer base and the … Continue reading
AI: The Story So Far, Stuart Russell (Video)
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBCOMm_ytwM] Machine Learning Research Institute: As previously announced, we recently ran a 22-day Colloquium Series on Robust and Beneficial AI (CSRBAI) at the MIRI office, co-hosted with the Oxford Future of Humanity Institute. The colloquium was aimed at bringing … Continue reading
Skills and Jobs for the Digital Future
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-MZ288onbs] Moderator: George Westerman, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (@gwesterman) Speakers: Gerald Chertavian, Year Up (@yearup) Prof. Tom Davenport, Fellow at MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (@tdav) Karen Kocher, Cigna (@kkocher) Steve Phillips, Avnet, Inc. (@Steven_phillips) Are … Continue reading
Machine Learning, Artist’s Rendition
[vimeo 176389707 w=640 h=360] Motherboard: Jakob Werner, a 22-year-old animator and visual design student in Germany, decided to interpret the idea of machine learning a bit more literally “in order to create a sarcastic view at our society and into … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence in the Enterprise (Infographic)
HT: Inside Big Data
The Face of Artificial Intelligence
Source: Technology Review [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v09-n4buwYE?rel=0] Source: IEEE Spectrum Source: MadAboutMovies Source: http://www.lkessler.com/brutefor.shtml Lee Se-dol, one of the world’s top Go players, won just one of the matches against the AlphaGo program, missing out on the $1 million prize up … Continue reading
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AI Safety and Robotics Laws (Infographic)
In July 1984, a factory robot in Jackson, Michigan, crushed a 34 year-old worker in the first ever robot-related death in the United States. The robot thus violated Issac Asimov’s First Law of Robotics, “A robot may not injure a human being or, … Continue reading
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Press Mentions of Specific AI Applications
Source: CB Insights; Last accessed 5-Jul-2016. Magister Advisors: Specific AI capabilities are particularly strategic and will create immense value to many industries. Predictive analytics, speech and image recognition are the earliest verticals enabled by AI and rightly so because of … Continue reading
A Primer on Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning from Andreesen Horowitz
[vimeo 170189199 w=640 h=360] Things are clearly progressing rapidly when it comes to machine intelligence. But how did we get here, after not one but multiple “A.I. winters”? What’s the breakthrough? And why is Silicon Valley buzzing about artificial intelligence … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence is the New Big Data
Source: CB Insights Trends