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Dec 17, 2018
Amazon’s Homegrown Chips Threaten Silicon Valley Giant Intel
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: internet, robotics/AI
In recent years, Google has designed specialized chips for artificial intelligence technology. Facebook and Microsoft, which like most internet companies are major buyers of chips from Intel, have indicated that they are working on similar A.I. chips.
The retailer is now making its own server chips. It’s the latest sign that big internet outfits are willing to cut out longtime suppliers.
Dec 16, 2018
Sophia Robot Creator: We’ll Achieve Singularity in Five to 10 years
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, singularity
By Kate Gill
A.I. robot Sophia is getting a software upgrade, one that will inch her ー and perhaps A.I. ー even closer to humanity. According to her creator, not only will Sophia earn her citizenship in Malta, she will reach a level of advancement equal to human beings in roughly five to 10 years.
“In the long run, I think the broader implications are pretty clear,” Dr. Ben Goertzel, the CEO of SingularityNET and chief scientist at Hanson Robotics, told Cheddar Friday.
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Dec 16, 2018
How DeepMind’s AlphaZero Mastered Complex Games With No Human Input
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI
As impressive as all these feats were, game-playing AI typically exploit the properties of a single game and often rely on hand-crafted knowledge coded into them by developers. But DeepMind’s latest creation, AlphaZero, detailed in a new paper in Science, was built from the bottom up to be game-agnostic.
All it was given was the rules of each game, and it then played itself thousands of times, effectively using trial and error to work out the best tactics for each game. It was then pitted against the most powerful specialized AI for each game, including its predecessor AlphaGo, beating them comprehensively.
“This work has, in effect, closed a multi-decade chapter in AI researchers need to look to a new generation of games to provide the next set of challenges, ”IBM computer scientist Murray Campbell, who has worked on chess-playing computers, wrote in an opinion for Science.
Dec 16, 2018
Forbes publication: Forbes story title: Human 2.0: is coming faster than you think deck: Will you evolve with the times?
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: information science, robotics/AI
Publication: Forbes story title: Human 2.0: is coming faster than you think deck: Will you evolve with the times? section: Innovation topic: artificial intelligence + big data special label: contributor group | Cognitive World author: by Neil Sahota date: October 1, 2018.
Dec 16, 2018
Elon Musk’s Boring Company to Launch “Road Legal” Autonomous Cars
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, law, robotics/AI, transportation
Dec 16, 2018
Pic story: enthusiasts’ aviation dream
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, robotics/AI, transportation
Fu Qiang examines flight simulator cockpit parts at Wright Brothers Science and Technology Development Co., Ltd. in Harbin, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, Dec. 14, 2018. If it were not for a common infatuation with flight simulation, chances are that Liu Zhongliang, Fu Qiang and Zhou Zhiyuan, who had once led three entirely distinct careers, might never come across one another, let alone team up and approach an aviation dream. The aviation enthusiast trio launched their hardware developing team in 2009. From the very first electronic circuit, to today’s flight simulator cockpits, the core spirit of autonomous design prevailed throughout the course of their venture. In 2014, Liu, Fu and Zhou left Zhengzhou in central China and relocated to Harbin. They were joined by Ge Jun, another aviation enthusiast, entering a business fast track as the four registered their company, named after the Wright Brothers. The prototype of a scale 1:1 Boeing 737–800 cockpit procedure trainer took shape in the same year. And in the year to come, the simulator cockpit was put to standardized production. The company’s products have obtained recognitions at various levels. In November 2016, a refined model of their cockpit procedure trainer obtained technical certification from the China Academy of Civil Aviation Science and Technology, one of the country’s top research institutes in the field. Later, another flight simulator cockpit prototype received Boeing authorizations. One aspiration of the team is to apply for higher-level technical certifications for their simulator cockpits, and become a viable contributor to the Chinese jetliner industry. (Xinhua/Wang Song)
Dec 16, 2018
How will A.I. change medicine?
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Artificial intelligence could change the way medicine works, but what will that mean for patient privacy, doctors’ routines, and preventative medicine?
Dec 16, 2018
This “Robotic Skin” Can Turn Pretty Much Anything Into a Robot
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: robotics/AI, space
Dec 16, 2018
Amazon Wants You to Code the AI Brain for This Little Car
Posted by Mike Ruban in category: robotics/AI
Inspired by do-it-yourselfers, Amazon is offering a radio controlled car that learns to drive by repeated trial and error.