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Watson, IBM’s “cognitive” computing system most famous for beating former Jeopardy! champions at their own game, is becoming a mobile platform. More
What human skills will be more valuable?
The age of brilliant machines seems to reward a few traits.
Computers are increasingly going to be able to perform important parts of even mostly cognitive jobs
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"Technology has taken us places we've only dreamed, empowering us to make the impossible possible."
An arms race between Google Brain and Facebook AI Group
Expect an arms race between Google Brain, Facebook AI Group and other tech companies that will desperately try to keep up.
...the power to actually understand what their users are saying
Facebook is diving headlong into AI.
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The aim to give these services the power to actually understand what their users are saying — without help from other humans. “We want to take AI and CIFAR to wonderful new places,” Hinton says, “where no person, no student, no program has gone before.”
Humans must adapt faster
‘I get very excited when we discover a way of making neural networks better — and when that’s closely related to how the brain works.’ — Geoffrey Hinton
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There’s no economic law that says that when technology advances, that everybody necessarily benefits: some people, even a majority of people, could be made worse off. – Erik Brynjolfsson
His entire body and identity have become the property of a collective human-machine network.
Hawking’s persona, his disability, and his embodied network thus becomes a window on our machines, the nature of work, and even our representation of scientific heroes.
In fact, it’s precisely because of his disability that we get to see how all scientists work … and how the entire world will work one day.
No voice, no other sounds, no facial expressions. His sole means of communicating is through infrared connection to his computer.
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This will turn the digital world on its head
The first commercial version of the new kind of computer chip is scheduled to be released in 2014. It is based on the biological nervous system, specifically on how neurons react to stimuli and connect with other neurons to interpret information.
Progress in Technology is Exponential, Not Linear
Computers have entered the age when they are able to learn from their own mistakes, a development that is about to turn the digital world on its head.
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My main message is that progress in technology is exponential, not linear. Many -- even scientists -- assume a linear model, so they'll say, "Oh, it'll be hundreds of years before we have self-replicating nano-technology assembly or artificial intelligence."
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If you really look at the power of exponential growth, you'll see that these things are pretty soon at hand.
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Richard Mahoney, the director of the robotics program at SRI International discusses the long-term ramifications of Robotics for the economy and the job market.
Pre-Cogs: Precognitive humans, their brain waves tapped by computers
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Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report" is a triumph--a film that works on our minds and our emotions. It is a thriller and a human story, a movie of ideas that's also a whodunit.
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Let the Robots Take Over
Robot replacement is just a matter of time. This upheaval is being led by a second wave of automation, one that is centered on artificial cognition, cheap sensors, machine learning, and distributed smarts.
Ray Kurzweil: Consciousness in Robots
Imagine that 7 out of 10 working Americans got fired tomorrow. What would they all do?
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Add to this Google’s revelation that it is using techniques of deep learning to produce an artificial brain, and..
Ray Kurzweil, one of the leading scientists in the field, joined the search giant Google late last year.
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"... increased understanding will require increased contact ...."
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Thinking Machines Connect the World
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Cognitive computing systems learn and interact naturally with people to extend what either humans or machine could do on their own. They help human experts make better decisions by penetrating the complexity of Big Data.
Cognitive computing systems use image and speech recognition as their eyes and ears to understand the world and interact more seamlessly with humans ....
20/20 Vision
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To See how far virtual reality will actually go, we visited Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab.
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How vision technologies are expanding industrial pick-and-place robotic processes as well as the robot market as a whole.
“In the next decade, the number of vision systems used by autonomous robots should eclipse the number of systems used by fixed-base robot arms ...
Virtual Reality. It's Unreal!
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The Post Singularity Economy
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It's been the fodder for countless dystopian movies: a singularity in which artificial intelligence rivals human smarts.
From mass extinction to life extension, here are seven potential implications of super-smart robots.
Reason 5: Economy On Fire: Whereas the economy doubled every thousand years after the agricultural revolution, and every 15 years after the industrial revolution, a post-singularity economy could double every month... that blistering pace of economic growth could be so fast that humans couldn't ...
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It's More than Moore's Law
What allowed robots to go from blind, dumb, immobile automatons to fully autonomous entities able to operate in unstructured environments like the streets of a city....
Press My Invisible Button
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Suddenly, the robotic future doesn't look so far off.
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The internet of things will become more central to society than the internet as we know it today.
The internet of things replaces the internet-related actions we already know—click a button, navigate a webpage—with context.
An invisible button is simply an area in space that is “clicked” when a person or object moves into that physical space.
Robot HR Department
How to make your resume as robot-friendly as possible.
Most big companies use applicant tracking system (ATS) software to sift through online resume submissions.
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ALMOST HUMAN - Movie Trailer
Watch a trailer for Almost Human, the futuristic and action packed new series from J.J. Abrams & J.H. Wyman
Intelligent Machines sub for Lawyers
"In the old world, the (legal profession's )business model was awesome," said Wang. "Now you can look it up just as easily as I can.”
Ted Wang, who has honed legal strategies for tech companies like Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc., is turning to a novel tool in his bid to demystify the legalities of starting a company.
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Cognitive computing systems learn and interact naturally with people to extend what either humans or machine could do on their own. They help human experts make better decisions by penetrating the complexity of Big Data.
Cognitive computing systems use image and speech recognition as their eyes and ears to understand the world and interact more seamlessly with humans ....
Man Really Loves His Computer
In the new Spike Jonze film, Her, a man falls in love with his operating system.For many experts in artificial intelligence who study this kind of relationship, it’s not a matter of if, but when.
"HAVING ONE-NIGHT STANDS WITH ANDROIDS WILL HAPPEN A LOT SOONER."
Why do humans become emotionally intimate with AI?
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"It can be hard for real people, with all the messy complications of the physical world, to compete with...
Machine Learning
The lab will work on "machine learning," -- a branch of artificial intelligence that involves computers "learning" to extract knowledge from giant data sets.
Facebook unveiled plans Monday on a partnership with New York University for a new center for artificial intelligence, aimed at harnessing the huge social network's massive trove of data.
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