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#428348 Google’s New AI Gets Smarter Thanks to ...

Posted on November 2, 2016 by Android

“The behavior of the computer at any moment is determined by the symbols which he is observing and his 'state of mind' at that moment.” – Alan Turing Artificial intelligence has a memory problem. Back in early 2015, Google’s mysterious DeepMind unveiled an algorithm that could teach itself to play Atari games. Based on deep neural nets, the AI impressively mastered nostalgic favorites such as Space Invaders and Pong without needing any explicit programming —… read more Continue reading →

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#428326 Halloween Edition: This Week’s Awesome ...

Posted on October 30, 2016 by Android

Halloween has never been my holiday of choice. Why? Because scary things, well, actually scare me. But here in the Bay Area, adults go nuts for Halloween. This year, technology companies are showing some serious commitment to Halloween too, and they're using technology to amp up the fright factor—like creating virtual reality simulated haunted houses and using artificial intelligence to generate ridiculously scary images. I’ll be avoiding these tech-induced terrors this weekend, but here are a few stories we… read more Continue reading →

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#427993 Robot ethics is about humans

Posted on October 29, 2016 by Android

Kate Darling, Research Specialist at the MIT Media Lab and a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center and the Yale Information Society Proje, talks about her research on people’s instinctual and emotional perception of robots.

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#428160 SNL Asimo robot parody

Posted on October 29, 2016 by Android

Funny SNL (Saturday Night Live) parody of Honda’s robots running amok at a tech convention, all because… Well, watch the video yourself, it’s funny!

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#428199 The AI Conversation Has Exploded This ...

Posted on October 27, 2016 by Android

Discussion of artificial intelligence has skyrocketed since the end of the last decade, according to a new analysis looking at public perception of the technology. The paper by Stanford computer science PhD Ethan Fast and Eric Horvitz, a distinguished scientist and deputy managing director at Microsoft Research, looked at more than three million articles published in the New York Times between January 1986 and May 2016. The study is under review to become a conference… read more Continue reading →

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