“Satya Nadella bounded into the conference room, eager to talk about intelligence. I was at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA, and the company’s CEO was touting the company’s progress in building more intelligent apps and services.”
“It’s a good time to be a machine learning startup. Two weeks after Twitter bought London-based Magic Pony, Google has purchased French firm Moodstocks. The acquisition was made for an unknown sum, and seems primarily a grab for talent.”
Read: Google buys machine vision startup focusing on ‘instant object recognition’
“Amazon has crowned the latest champion in its robotic picking challenge — an annual competition that looks for robots that could one day work in the company’s warehouses. It’s basically American Idol, but for robotic arms that can grab items off a shelf and put them back again.”
Read: Amazon’s latest robot champion uses deep learning to stock shelves
“Amazon has crowned the latest champion in its robotic picking challenge — an annual competition that looks for robots that could one day work in the company’s warehouses. It’s basically American Idol, but for robotic arms that can grab items off a shelf and put them back again.”
Read: Amazon’s latest robot champion uses deep learning to stock shelves
“Google’s DeepMind is embarking on a new research project to help doctors spot the early signs of sight-threatening eye diseases.”
Read: Google DeepMind will use machine learning to spot eye diseases early
“Advanced machine learning, also known as artificial intelligence or just A.I., holds far greater promise than unsettling headlines about computers beating humans at games like Jeopardy!, chess, checkers, and Go. Ultimately, humans and machines will work together—not against one another.”
Read: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella : Humans and A.I. can work together to solve society’s challenges.
“We believe that AI technologies are likely to be overwhelmingly useful and beneficial for humanity. But part of being a responsible steward of any new technology is thinking through potential challenges and how best to address any associated risks.”
“This week is the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Las Vegas, and Google researchers have several accomplishments to present.”
Read: Google researchers teach AIs to see the important parts of images — and tell you about them
“ACCORDING to some prominent voices in the tech world, artificial intelligence presents a looming existential threat to humanity: Warnings by luminaries like Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom about “the singularity” — when machines become smar”
“Ars is excited to be hosting this online debut of Sunspring, a short science fiction film that’s not entirely what it seems. It’s about three people living in a weird future, possibly on a space station, probably in a love triangle.”
Read: Movie written by algorithm turns out to be hilarious and intense