In a recent project, we found which of 700000 property parcels in Adelaide, Australia, contain swimming pools. We used a combination of crowdsourcing and supervised machine learning in order to harness the inherent ability of humans to identify objects in imagery and the speed of machines, which can perform this task much faster than humans, once trained sufficiently. Our initial approach consisted of training a random forest classifier with a set of crowdsourced labels, then using the machine classifications to present to the crowd only the parcels that were likely to contain swimming pools. Since only a small percentage of the parcels actually contain pools, the efficiency gain of this approach is huge compared to a pure crowdsourcing campaign. At first glance, identifying a pool in a high-resolution satellite image might appear to be a simple task for a human and a machine alike.

With machine learning at the centre of our business platforms, we've been exploring the future of AI. Like many people, I start most mornings digging myself out of an inbox that often feels like more trouble than it's worth thanks to the seemingly infinite amount of newsletters I receive. And although these newsletters cross verticals as varied as marketing, technology, advertising and the agency world, lately each one has a headline that includes artificial intelligence. Not surprisingly, all of us are curious to know how this growing field of technology is going to infiltrate our professional and personal lives. Across every industry, people are afraid that AI is going to steal jobs.

In the back kitchen of Mountain View's newest pizzeria, Marta works tirelessly, spreading marinara sauce on uncooked pies. She doesn't complain, takes no breaks, and has never needed a sick day. Marta is one of two robots working at Zume Pizza, a secretive food delivery startup trying to make a more profitable pizza through machines. It's also created special delivery trucks that will finish cooking pizzas during the journey to hungry customers if approved by the Santa Clara County Department of Environmental Health. Right now Zume is only feeding people in Mountain View, California, but it has ambitions to dominate the 9.7 billion pizza delivery industry.

Like many people, I start most mornings digging myself out of an inbox that often feels like more trouble than it's worth thanks to the seemingly infinite amount of newsletters I receive. And although these newsletters cross verticals as varied as marketing, technology, advertising and the agency world, lately each one has a headline that includes artificial intelligence. Not surprisingly, all of us are curious to know how this growing field of technology is going to infiltrate our professional and personal lives. Across every industry, people are afraid that AI is going to steal jobs. As a marketer I don't think we have any urgent concerns over job security.

Hi PK and all, I'm organising this Bothaton and am working around the clock to lock in the venue, generate more awarness and get more local or remote participants from Australia as well as some sponsors. There will be more info coming soon, drafting a page on http://devpost.com/ha..., planning leads catch up over this weekend and a Hangout/webinar a few days in prior the next weekend. If you or anyone is interested in a project leadership or some other involvement, please do not hesitate to msg me!:)

Artificial intelligence in Korea is currently prospering. The media is regularly reporting AI-enabled products such as smart advisors, personal robots, autonomous cars, and human-level intelligence machines. The IT industry is investing in deep learning and AI to maintain the global competitive edge in their services and products. The Ministry of Science, ICT, and Future Planning (MSIP) has launched new funding programs in AI and cognitive science to implement the government’s newly adopted endeavor of building a “Creative Economy” and “Software Centric Society”. However, AI was not always flourishing as it is now. Similar to the history of AI worldwide, AI research and industry in Korea have faced both the ups and downs in its history.

The Media Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA Superintelligence is a hypothetical agent that possesses intelligence far surpassing that of the brightest and most gifted human minds. In light of recent advances in machine intelligence, a number of scientists, philosophers and technologists have revived the discussion about the potential catastrophic risks entailed by such an entity. In this article, we trace the origins and development of the neo-fear of superintelligence, and some of the major proposals for its containment. We argue that such containment is, in principle, impossible, due to fundamental limits inherent to computing itself. Assuming that a superintelligence will contain a program that includes all the programs that can be executed by a universal Turing machine on input potentially as complex as the state of the world, strict containment requires simulations of such a program, something theoretically (and practically) infeasible.

Cannes Lions this year saw the ad industry expanding its creative capabilities. Over 13,500 delegates from about 90 countries descended on Cannes again this year hoping for a Lion in one of 17 categories. With awards honoring work from design to creative data to radio, the ceremonies reflected a complex industry drawing on a broader range of creative disciplines than in the past, but also facing unprecedented challenges in making campaigns work across channels. "There's never been so many channels or points of interactions, or agencies working on various parts of that," said Keith Weed, chief marketing and communications officer at Unilever. "It's important to make sure the brand experience does not get fragmented."

Here are upcoming meetings and conferences, for July 2016 and beyond. Save 10% with the KDNUGGETS registration code. Aug 29 - Sep 1, Image Processing, Computer Vision and Machine Learning based on Optimization and PDE. Use code CDOINSUR to save 10% on registration. Sep 23, MLconf Atlanta Machine Learning Conference - mention "KDNuggets" and save 18%.

The'cognitive era' has arrived says IBM CEO Ginni Rometty, who was in Sydney yesterday to demonstrate Big Blue's cognitive computing technology Watson. The era marked the convergence of'man and machine' according to Rometty, who predicted that within five years every business decision would be aided by cognitive systems. IBM Watson is a technology platform that uses natural language processing and machine learning to reveal insights from large amounts of unstructured data. Ten years in the making, it's now being used by a number of Australian businesses. KPMG Australia yesterday announced it would be introducing Watson to its audit and assurance services to "accelerate teams' ability to analyse and act" on the "immense volumes of structured and unstructured data related to a company's financial and non-financial information".