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Oct 23, 2016
Elon Musk’s Mars colony would have a horde of mining robots
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI, space
Oct 23, 2016
‘Every aspect of our lives will be transformed’ — exploring the future of AI
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: computing, law, robotics/AI
A new centre has opened to study the positive and negative implications of AI and ethical quandaries it poses.
“The rise of powerful AI will be either the best, or the worst thing, ever to happen to humanity,” Professor Stephen Hawking said in Cambridge, at the launch of the Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI).
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Oct 23, 2016
This artificially intelligent camera drone can follow its subjects around
Posted by Bryan Gatton in categories: drones, robotics/AI
Oct 23, 2016
Artificial intelligence will change the ‘course of our species’: Top Goldman tech banker
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: computing, finance, information science, internet, robotics/AI
Artificial intelligence is a “momentous development,” said George Lee, co-chairman of the global technology, media and telecom group at Goldman Sachs.
“As awesome as the internet has been, it will be best remembered as really the predicate for machine learning,” said Lee, who’s also chief information officer of Goldman’s investment banking division. He appeared on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley” on Wednesday from Goldman’s Builders + Innovators Summit in Santa Barbara, California.
The internet enabled computing scale in a network and serves as a way to “collect data that’s used to train all these algorithms,” Lee said, predicting machine learning will “change our world … and even the course of our species in ways that are hard to predict today.”
Oct 22, 2016
Hawking: Creating AI Could Be the Biggest Event in the History of Our Civilization
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
In Brief:
- At the launch of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI), the famed scientist warned of a potentially grave future given the rise of AI.
- The work done at CFI could have far-reaching implications for the future of AI, helping shape how the technology is used and regulated.
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Oct 22, 2016
Give a 3D printer artificial intelligence, and this is what you’ll get
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: 3D printing, information science, robotics/AI
A London-based startup has combined some of today’s most disruptive technologies in a bid to change the way we’ll build the future. By retrofitting industrial robots with 3D printing guns and artificial intelligence algorithms, Ai Build has constructed machines that can see, create, and even learn from their mistakes.
When CEO and founder Daghan Cam was studying architecture, he noticed a disconnect between small-scale manufacturing and large-scale construction. “On one side we have a fully automated production pipeline,” Cam explained at a recent conference in London. “On the other side we’re completely dependent on human labor.” With the emergence of more efficient printing technologies, he thought there must be a better way.
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Oct 21, 2016
Roving robots may roam your clothes
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: robotics/AI, wearables
If you don’t like the thought of bugs crawling all over you, then you might not like one possible direction in which the field of wearable electronics is heading. Researchers from MIT and Stanford University recently showcased their new Rovables robots, which are tiny devices that roam up and down a person’s clothing – and yes, that’s as the clothing is being worn.
The centimeter-sized robots hang on by pinching the fabric between their wheels, with the physically-unconnected wheel on the underside of the material held against the others simply by magnetic attraction.
Oct 21, 2016
UK demos self-driving cars talking among themselves
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
While self-driving vehicles will be revolutionary, having self-driving vehicles communicate with one another and with road infrastructure will take that revolution to the Nth degree. In a UK-first, a cross-company collaborative demonstration of these technologies working together has taken place.
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Oct 21, 2016
Microsoft reaches ‘human parity’ with new speech recognition system
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: robotics/AI
Researchers at Microsoft have published details of new speech recognition technology that they say transcribes conversational speech as well as a human does. “We’ve reached human parity,” says Microsoft’s chief speech scientist Xuedong Huang in a statement. “This is an historic achievement.”
The system’s word error rate is reported to be 5.9 percent, which Microsoft says is “about equal” to professional transcriptionists asked to work on speech taken from the same Switchboard corpus of conversations. It uses neural language models that group similar words together, allowing for efficient generalization. Microsoft plans to use the technology in Cortana, its personal voice assistant for Windows and the Xbox One, as well as speech-to-text transcription software.
Although the results are impressive, it’s far from an endgame for speech recognition. Microsoft still needs to tune the technology to work as well with conversations in a wider range of more challenging real-life situations and with a broader selection of voices. And for use cases such as Cortana, much of the difficulty comes from teaching the artificial intelligence to understand the meaning of words and act on them, not just accurately hear them.
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