An ex-Google engineer who has registered the first church of AI says he is'raising a god' that will that charge of humans. The robot god will head a religion called Way Of The Future (WOTF), which will eventually have a gospel called'The Manual', rituals and even a physical place of worship, Anthony Levandowski first filed papers with the Internal Revenue Service inMay, and named himself as'dean' of WOTF, giving him complete control until his death or resignation. Levandowski his robot god will take charge of its human subjects as we relinquish our power to a creation with far more intelligence than our own. Anthony Levandowski (right) who has registered the first church of AI says he is'raising a god' that will treat humans as esteemed elders. He is pictured with Uber founder and ex-CEO Travis Kalanick.

There is a struggle today for the heart and minds of Artificial Intelligence. It's a complex "Game of Thrones" conflict that involves many houses (or tribes) (see: "The Many Tribes of AI"). The two waring factions I focus on today is those who practice Cargo Cult science in the form of Bayesian statistics and those who practice alchemy in the form of experimental Deep Learning. For the uninitiated, let's talk about what Cargo Cult science means. Cargo Cult science is a phrased coined by Richard Feynman to illustrate a practice of in science of not working from fundamentally sound first principles.

Stuart Russell was born in 1962 in Portsmouth, England. He received his B.A. with first-class honours in physics from Oxford University in 1982, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1986. He then joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is a professor of computer science, director of the Center for Intelligent Systems, and holder of the Smith–Zadeh Chair in Engineering. In 1990, he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, and in 1995 he was cowinner of the Computers and Thought Award. He was a 1996 Miller Professor of the University of California and was appointed to a Chancellor's Professorship in 2000.

Thank you! re: "solution for mobile and embedded devices", can we expect to see early support for rpi & piZero-w? The process for getting TF on a piZero right now is pretty painful. Many of us who are using TF on rpis for research in the self driving car space would *really* make good use of TF on a pi zero-w due to the cost difference and wifi support . How about the inference speed compared to other mobile DL framework such as https://github.com/Tencent/ncnn

After a flashy reveal in September, Apple earlier this month finally released its most forward-looking iPhone in years. To Apple, the iPhone X is a harbinger of what's to come. "Our teams have been hard at work for years on something that is important to all of us," CEO Tim Cook said on stage at the Steve Jobs Theater shortly before unveiling the device. But for the millions of Apple loyalists around the world, the iPhone X isn't just a cutting-edge new piece of technology -- it's an upgrade that will likely cost them more than any smartphone has before. For comparison's sake, the base model iPhone 8 costs $699, while last year's iPhone 7 was $649 when it launched.

Inventor and author Ray Kurzweil, who currently runs a group at Google writing automatic responses to your emails in cooperation with the Gmail team, recently talked with WIRED Editor-in-Chief Nicholas Thompson at the Council on Foreign Relations. Nicholas Thompson: Let's begin with you explaining the law of accelerating returns, which is one of the fundamental ideas underpinning your writing and your work. Ray Kurzweil: Halfway through the Human Genome Project, 1 percent of the genome had been collected after seven years. So mainstream critics said, "I told you this wasn't gonna work. You're at seven years, 1 percent; it's going to take 700 years just like we said." My reaction at the time was: "Wow we finished 1 percent? Because 1 percent is only seven doublings from 100 percent. It had been doubling every year. The project was finished seven years later. That's continued since the end of the genome project--that first genome cost a billion dollars and we're now down to $1,000.

Jaron Lanier has written a book about virtual reality, a phrase he coined and a concept he did much to invent. It has the heady title Dawn of the New Everything. But it's also a tale of his growing up and when you read it, what you really want to talk to him about is parenting. Lanier is 57, but his childhood as he describes it was so sad and so creative and so extreme, it makes him almost seem fated to pursue alternative worlds. Lanier's parents met in New York.

Was this the week that the space age vision of a car that drives itself became a reality? And are claims that artificial intelligence can transform healthcare a bit overhyped? On this week's Tech Tent podcast we explore the potential and limits of technology in health and transport. This week we woke up to the fact that autonomous cars could be with us sooner than we thought. That was the message from John Krafcik, chief executive of Waymo, the self-driving car division of Google - or Alphabet as we must learn to call it.

Nvidia reported a stellar quarter for the three months ended October 31. Nvidia had $2.6 billion in revenue in the quarter, and $1.5 billion of it came from graphics chips for gaming PCs. But the company's investment in artificial intelligence chips is paying off, with data center growing beyond $500 million in revenue for the first time. Jensen Huang, CEO of Santa Clara, California-based Nvidia, said his company started investing in AI seven years ago, and that its latest AI chips are the result of years of work by several thousand engineers. That has given the company an edge in AI, and other rivals are scrambling to keep up, he said.

As hedge funds rush to enter the cryptocurrency space, the landscape for retail cryptocurrency investors is fundamentally changing before our very eyes. Guy breaks down the implications of this fundamental shift and we discuss how the community can prepare for the rise of AI in crypto trading. To understand the extent in which AI is taking over hedge funds, we need only to look at the statistics. AI is set to replace 90,000 asset management jobs and 45 thousand sales and trading jobs by 2025. Famous hedge funds that are already employing AI in their trading are Renaissance Technologies, Two Sigma, and Bridgewater Associates.