Category Archives: AI
The Brute Force of AlphaGo
David Silver, Google DeepMind: The search base at Go is too enormous and too vast for a brute force approach to have any chance of succeeding… The search process itself is not based on brute force, more on something akin … Continue reading
32 Artificial Intelligence Startups In Healthcare
CB Insights: We identified 32 companies that are already applying machine learning techniques and predictive analytics to reduce drug discovery times, provide virtual assistance to patients, and diagnose ailments by processing medical images, among other things. The 32 startups on … Continue reading
3 AI programs to talk at TED 2020: $5 million competition announcement
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Beyond Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google: Intelligent Assistants Landscape
VB: Ever since Apple’s Siri heralded the age of intelligent assistants (IAs) four years ago — followed by Microsoft, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook — pundits have complained that intelligent assistant technology isn’t living up to its promise… In 2015, the … Continue reading
The History of Artificial Intelligence (Video)
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A Reasonable Discussion of Deep Learning’s Great Expectations
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aygSMgK3BEM?rel=0] Luke Hewitt: I have no doubt that the next few years will see neural networks turn their attention to yet more tasks, integrate themselves more deeply into industry, and continue to impress researchers with new superpowers. This is … Continue reading
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The Machine Learning Landscape
Shivon Zilis: Most of these machine intelligence startups take well-worn machine intelligence techniques, some more than a decade old, and apply them to new data sets and workflows. It’s still true that big companies, with their massive data sets and … Continue reading
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Using Deep Learning in Medicine (Video)
https://youtu.be/3WBpJKDv1U8 Jeremy Howard, founder and CEO of Enlitic, argues that the release of Google’s TensorFlow will have an impact similar to the release of the C programming language and that Deep Learning will have an impact similar to that of … Continue reading
Google’s RankBrain Outranks the Best Brains in the Industry
Bloomberg recently broke the news that Google is “turning its lucrative Web search over to AI machines.” Google revealed to the reporter that for the past few months, a very large fraction of the millions of search queries Google responds … Continue reading
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45% of work activities can be automated including those performed by highest-paid occupations
McKinsey: …our research suggests that as many as 45 percent of the activities individuals are paid to perform can be automated by adapting currently demonstrated technologies.4 In the United States, these activities represent about $2 trillion in annual wages. Although … Continue reading