Category: Artificial Intelligence
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In perspective: IBM Watson Business Unit is only two years old
In just two years, the Artificial Intelligence technologies available through IBM Watson has exploded. Artificial Intelligence is a rapidly growing field. The New York Times has an interesting article that provides a background to the business behind Watson. Also new for today is an article at the Mac Observer about Apple’s AI intentions.
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The Terence and Philip Show: Episode 74: Avid and AI
In this episode we discuss the future of Avid and how AI will affect post production.
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Tech Companies Promise not to Activate Skynet
More accurately five tech companies promised not to abuse their AI power and act ethically.
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Google buys Speech Recognition; Apple snaps up Machine Learning
It seems the smartest way to make money right now is to have a startup in speech recognition, machine learning, neural networks or other Artificial Intelligence related startup. TechCrunch reported late last week the Apple had acquired another machine learning company: After buying Perceptio at the end of 2015 and Turi just a few months ago, Apple has now…
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Show and Tell: Neural Networks in Practice
Google have open sourced it’s Show and Tell model for automatically captioning images. This is an excellent example of how neural networks work: train the model with examples – in this case human captioned images – and then let it loose on new images. From the Venture Beat article: Google trains Show and Tell by…
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IBM Watson cuts trailer for Morgan
IMB Watson just cut a movie trailer. What do you think?
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AI: Now it’s ‘making movies’
When AI claims to know what good filmmaking is, is it time to get worried?
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More AI: Hedge Fund AI Outperformed its Creator
Bloomberg reported yesterday about a Hedge Fund ‘Robot’ that “outsmarted” its human “master”. The quotation marks are all mine because it’s self learning, so it doesn’t really have a master, but rather someone that created it. Still, the performance in the quoted instance is quite impressive. It’s currently in charge of about $35 million in…
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Does AI and Robotics give us the opportunity to rethink work?
With so much negativity around AI, John Hagel postulates that we could use this transition as an opportunity to rethink the nature of work.