Artificial Intelligence Around Us
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Issue 13
August 24, 2010
This newsletter is for thinking people who has any interest in Artificial Intelligence
Welcome!
Swarm intelligence
Swarm intelligenceMimicking the behaviour of ants, bees and birds started as a poor man’s version of artificial intelligence. It may, though, be the key to the real thing
Watson, Turing, and extreme machine learning
One of best presentations at IBM's recent Blogger Day was given by David Ferrucci, the leader of the Watson team, the group that developed the supercomputer that recently appeared as a contestant on Jeopardy.
From Universal Studios Home Entertainment: Where
Humanity Ends and Artificial Intelligence Begins
Part sweeping soap, part mediation on the dangerous moral ramifications of artificial intelligence, the "Battlestar Galactica" phenomenon continues with this undeniably compelling look at where the real conflict between humans and the Cylons began . . . in a vibrant world remarkably like our own, "Caprica." From executive producers Ronald D. Moore and David Eick, "Caprica" Season 1.0 stars Golden Globe-nominee Eric Stoltz (Pulp Fiction), Esai Morales ("NYPD Blue"), Paula Malcomson ("Deadwood"), Alessandra Toressani ("Happy Campers"), Magda Apanowicz ("Kyle XY"), Sasha Roiz ("In Plain Sight"), Brian Markinson ("The L Word") and Polly Walker (Clash of the Titans).
BRITS OPT FOR ROBOTIC CHILDREN
The British are forgoing having children and instead buying robotic children. British couples across the United Kingdom are tired of having children – too much responsibility, too costly and too messy. Instead they are opting to have robotic children, just like in the 2001 futuristic fairy tale Artificial Intelligence starring Haley Joel Osment.
Ian Chadsworth and his wife, Fiona, were the first to purchase robotic children. Fiona, who is in her early 40s, said “I thought about having children, but decided that they’d just be too much work. When I learned that I could just adopt a robot child. I was thrilled.” Fiona calls her “son”, Becks (named after her father soccer player.)
Bill Gates: In Five Years The Best Education Will
Come From The Web
“Five years from now on the web for free you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world,” says Bill Gates. “It will be better than any single university.” He believes the $50,000 a year university education could be done via the web for as little as $2,000.
Mind-controlled app calls your friends with the power of thought
Mind-controlled app calls your friends with the power of thoughtAn app for the Nokia N900’s Maemo platform has emerged that claims to be able to dial a contact using only the power of thought.
ThinkContacts is designed to allow a “Motor disabled person to make a phone call to a desired contact by himself/herself”. Requiring a special headset to read users’ brainwaves, it uses brain activity to determine which of three contacts on the screen the user wants to call.
Google
Offers Cloud-Based Learning Engine
Google
Offers Cloud-Based Learning EngineGoogle has launched a service that could bring machine learning to many more apps. Google Prediction API provides a simple way for developers to create software that learns how to handle incoming data.
For example, the Google-hosted algorithms could be trained to sort e-mails into categories for “complaints” and “praise” using a dataset that provides many examples of both kinds. Future e-mails could then be screened by software using that API, and handled accordingly.
High- Tech Academy open a new Class:
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
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Will
Your Next Doctor Be a Robot?
Will
Your Next Doctor Be a Robot?Enrollment in medical schools is going down. One report by the Association of American Medical Colleges predicts a shortfall of 150,000 doctors in the U.S. in the next 15 years. Europe, Japan, New Zealand and other countries are facing similar challenges in health care. Most of the proposed solutions involve incentives to get more students into medical schools. There's another way to attack the problem: create artificial intelligence doctors that can handle a lot of routine medical questions, easing the traffic to doctors to check out a rash or a child's fever. Sure, robots may not have the same bedside manner as human doctors. But the idea is that they wouldn't replace doctors, but would allow the human physicians to focus on more serious care.
New Book
New BookArtificial Intelligence Around Us (ISBN 978-1-58909-666-4), is an intriguing and insightful new book just released by Bookstand Publishing. Artificial intelligence," says author and researcher Dr. Yuri Iserlis. "It not just something coming in the distant future. Every day, we enjoy the fruits of the work being done in this field, yet we are hardly aware of it. In fact, AI systems are everywhere around us, and many of these we encounter on a routine basis in our daily lives. This book is intended to give the reader a better understanding what is currently going on around us, and why."
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