That's the projected galaxy haul of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, currently under construction in Chile. Starting around 2023, the LSST camera's 3,200 megapixels will soak up 15 terabytes of data every night, which will fill the biggest astronomical database ever built. Computer scientist Lior Shamir of Lawrence Technological University in Michigan says the amount of data defies comprehension. "With just a mountain of images, no one will ever inspect them one by one. You can never make a discovery," he says. "You need to convert it into something that machines can understand."

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy announced a decision to create a new subcommittee on Artificial Intelligence to look for ways to use the technology as American citizens interact with the federal government. "The Federal Government also is working to leverage AI for public good and toward a more effective government," Deputy U.S. Chief Technology Officer Ed Felten in a statement. The new subcommittee plans to work with the private sector to help implement AI in government activities such as welfare, crime, urban development, and the environment. "[T]here is tremendous potential in AI-driven improvements to programs and delivery of services that help make everyday life better for Americans in areas related to urban systems and smart cities, mental and physical health, social welfare, criminal justice, the environment, and much more," Felten said. The group has announced a series of public workshops to discuss the controversial aspects of AI, particularly the legal implications and using artificial intelligence for the "social good" as well as controlling the groundbreaking technology.

When it arrives to artificial intelligence and digital assistants, Dag Kittlaus provides a whole lot of gravitas to the table: he co-made Siri, which Apple afterwards ordered and designed the "voice" of Iphone. And now Kittlaus has co-made what might very well be the up coming generation of Siri: Viv, a new AI startup that aims to replace the application globe as we know it with pure language instructions. Kittlaus on Monday offered the 1st general public demo of Viv at New York's TechCrunch Disrupt occasion, deep inside of the Brooklyn Cruise terminal in Crimson Hook. It was the 1st glimpse of the tech he claims will beat Siri, Google Now, Cortana and Amazon Alexa at their possess activity in a yr where by bots and AI technological know-how are suddenly all the rage. Viv had collected some headlines around the past yr or so, but this was the 1st prospect to see Viv in motion.

The word AI is increasingly bandied about with notable abandon. And, as I like to say, AI is the promise that keeps on promising. So I'm always encouraged when I see a humble but viable use of artificial intelligence, even if just a few years ago we may have simply called the nascent technology machine learning. The latest example is Picturesqe, a tool for professional photographers that uses what the U.S./Hungary startup calls AI-powered automation to help pick out the best snaps and filter out the dross. Features of the Windows app and Adobe Lightroom plugin (with a Mac version to follow shortly) include smart grouping, which automatically groups similar photos, intelligent zoom so that you can quickly compare the same spot on multiple shots, and the option to have Picturesqe pick out the best photos for you and delete the duds.

You may be familiar with the name Robert Wachter, M.D. He's written six books and hundreds of journal articles; he chairs the department of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco; and he's a leading advocate for patient safety. He's perhaps best known for having coined the term "hospitalist," and for having defined and promoted hospital medicine as a recognized primary care subspecialty. In a new book, The Digital Doctor: Hope, Hype and Harm at the Dawn of Medicine's Computer Age (McGraw-Hill Education, 2015), Wachter takes a deep dive into the turbulent waters of medical technology as informed by artificial intelligence, or AI. "While computers are preventing many medical errors," he observes, "they are also causing new kinds of mistakes, some of them whoppers." It was one of those -- at his own institution, UCSF -- that inspired Wachter to examine where AI has got us and where it's taking us.

One day in January, Eric Wilson dashed off a message to the teaching assistants for an online course at the Georgia Institute of Technology. "I really feel like I missed the mark in giving the correct amount of feedback," he wrote, pleading to revise an assignment. Thirteen minutes later, the TA responded. "Unfortunately, there is not a way to edit submitted feedback," wrote Jill Watson, one of nine assistants for the 300-plus students. Last week, Mr. Wilson found out he had been seeking guidance from a computer.

Wall Street has been a recurring subject in our current presidential campaign, and not in a good way. The campaigns of both major parties have started a national conversation about opportunity and economic justice, and at the center of that conversation should be Wall Street. But not without a change in the kind of talent financial-services attracts and nourishes. Here is our world in 2016: Western economies are getting older, and for too many people the idea of a secure and stable retirement is proving illusory. Young people are beginning their careers heavily in debt, expectations already diminished.

"Your space agency is on a journey to Mars. We need kids to create new tech that we are missing," Bolden said. "We can't get to Mars based on what we have today. We can go back to the moon and we will, but we have to go to Mars." Interactive projects like working on robots or partnering with NASA to send projects to the International Space Station will be particularly useful to show female and minority students "that science and math and technology is not only is fun but that it is available to them," he said. "Quit telling girls they can't learn math and science," he said.

The world has finally been given a chance to glimpse the capabilities of highly anticipated voice assistant, Viv. Siri CEO and co-founder Dag Kittlaus gave a live demonstration today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, revealing the next-generation AI's ability to handle complex questions through'natural' conversation. Viv can understand the intent of the user and create dynamic programs to connect the different components of a desired service. The world has finally been given a chance to glimpse the capabilities of highly anticipated voice assistant, Viv. Siri CEO and co-founder Dag Kittlaus, pictured above, gave a live demonstration today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, revealing the next-generation AI's ability to handle complex questions through natural conversation Viv analyses the nouns in a sentence when a person speaks into a smartphone.

From Siri creator Dag Kittlaus comes Viv, a product that aims to be the next generation personal assistant. Kittlaus sat down with USA TODAY's Ed Baig to talk about Viv and where he thinks its headed. BROOKLYN, NEW YORK-- Siri's cofounder gave the public its first look at Viv, his artificial intelligence-powered digital assistant that aims to lap rivals with its understanding of human conversation. Dag Kittlaus took the stage at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference here to demonstrate his latest creation. Viv aims to go beyond -- and take on -- Apple's Siri, Amazon's Alexa, Microsoft's Cortana and the voice inside Google.