1. The Next-Generation Applications Of Artificial Intelligence And Machine Learning
We have progressed from the development stage of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) technology into widespread implementation across industries. This advanced technology is everywhere, but most people don’t know they interact with it daily.
Author: chithrai Mani
Read More On: Forbes
2. The US Army is creating robots that can follow orders
Author: David Hambling
Read More On: MIT Technology Review
3. Opinion: It’s arrogant to assume humans will never imbue AI with consciousness
What makes us, us? How is it that we’re able to look at a tree and see beauty, hear a song and feel moved, or take comfort in the smell of rain or the taste of coffee? How do we know we still exist when we close our eyes and lie in silence? To date, science doesn’t have an answer to those questions.
Author: Tristan Greene
Read More On: The Next Web
4. The Latest in Translation Devices
Forget phrase books or even Google Translate. New translation devices are getting closer to replicating the fantasy of the Babel fish, which in the “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” sits in one’s ear and instantly translates any foreign language into the user’s own.
Author: Karen Schwartz
Read More On: The New York Times
5. The computing power needed to train AI is now rising seven times faster than ever before
An updated analysis from OpenAI shows how dramatically the need for computational resources has increased to reach each new AI breakthrough. The San Francisco-based for-profit AI research lab has now added new data to its analysis. This shows how the post-2012 doubling compares with the historic doubling time since the beginning of the field.
Author: Karen Hao
Read More On: MIT Technology Review
6. 13 Mind-Blowing Things Artificial Intelligence Can Already Do Today
Author: Bernard Marr
Read More On: Forbes
7. This AI Knows When You’ll Die And Its Creators Don’T Know How
Author: Victor Tangermann
Read More On: Futurism
8. AI ethics is all about power
At the Common Good in the Digital Age tech conference recently held in Vatican City, Pope Francis urged Facebook executives, venture capitalists, and government regulators to be wary of the impact of AI and other technologies.
Author: Khari Johnson
Read More On: VentureBeat
9. AI will now watch for fraudsters on the world’s largest stock exchange
A deep-learning system will work alongside human analysts to monitor the Nasdaq for suspicious behavior. The Nasdaq stock market is an attractive target for fraudsters. As the world’s largest stock exchange by volume, it must be constantly monitored for attempts to illicitly beat the system.
Author: Karen Hao
Read More On: MIT Technology Review
10. Intel unveils its first chips built for AI in the cloud
Intel is no stranger to AI-oriented chips, but now it’s turning its attention to those chips that might be thousands of miles away. The tech firm has introduced two new Nervana Neural Network Processors, the NNP-T1000 (below) and NNP-I1000 (above), that are Intel’s first ASICs designed explicitly for AI in the cloud.