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AI in Popular Culture: How Much Do You Remember?

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The appeal of thinking machines, particularly those that seem human, is understandable. If we could create an intelligent being, it might relieve our loneliness, protect us from our enemies, cure our illnesses, comfort our griefs. Then again, it might just as easily turn on us, destroy us, and take over the world. Books, movies and other cultural representations of AI are shot through with this tension: Will the being we create be our savior or our crucifier? But the actual title was, "Frankenstein, orโ€ฆ" Or what?


The Future of Artificial Intelligence

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June 8, 2019 Updated: April 20, 2020 "[AI] is going to change the world more than anything in the history of mankind. AI oracle and venture capitalist Dr. Kai-Fu Lee, 2018 In a nondescript building close to downtown Chicago, Marc Gyongyosi and the small but growing crew of IFM / Onetrack.AI have one rule that rules them all: think simple. The words are written in simple font on a simple sheet of paper that's stuck to a rear upstairs wall of their industrial two-story workspace. Sitting at his cluttered desk, located near an oft-used ping-pong table and prototypes of drones from his college days suspended overhead, Gyongyosi punches some keys on a laptop to pull up grainy video footage of a forklift driver operating his vehicle in a warehouse. It was captured from overhead courtesy of a Onetrack.AI "forklift vision system." The Future of Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence is impacting the future of virtually every industry and every human being. Artificial intelligence has acted as the main driver of emerging technologies like big data, robotics and IoT, and it will continue to act as a technological innovator for the foreseeable future. Employing machine learning and computer vision for detection and classification of various "safety events," the shoebox-sized device doesn't see all, but it sees plenty. Like which way the driver is looking as he operates the vehicle, how fast he's driving, where he's driving, locations of the people around him and how other forklift operators are maneuvering their vehicles. IFM's software automatically detects safety violations (for example, cell phone use) and notifies warehouse managers so they can take immediate action. The main goals are to prevent accidents and increase efficiency. The mere knowledge that one of IFM's devices is watching, Gyongyosi claims, has had "a huge effect." Marc Gyongyosi Photo Credit: IFM/OneTrack.AI The lower level of IFM was designed to mimic a warehouse environment so products can be effectively tested on site. Photo Credit: IFM/OneTrack.AI "If you think about a camera, it really is the richest sensor available to us today at a very interesting price point," he says. "Because of smartphones, camera and image sensors have become incredibly inexpensive, yet we capture a lot of information.


The great movie review challenge

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The following information is required if you would like to be considered for the lucky draw. Meet ARCHIE (Automated Review CompreHension Intelligent Engine), our intelligent Sentiment Analysis Data Machine that is great (we hope) at understanding the sentiment in any review, especially movies. In order to test Archie's artificial intelligence, we invite you to participate in this "automated rating challenge" to see how good Archie is at interpreting your rating based on the review you enter. Start by selecting the movie followed by providing your review. Archie will read it and guess what your rating would be on a scale of 1 to 5 with 1 being the worst rating and 5 being the best.


AI in Popular Culture: How Much Do You Remember?

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Artificial intelligence has been a feature of popular culture since long before the term was coined in 1955. It makes an appearance in "The Iliad" of โ€ฆ


Railways banks on artificial intelligence, data analytics to improve operational efficiency

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We want to analyse all this data with the help of AI and analytics and use it in our Passenger Reservation System (PRS), the introduction of new trainsย โ€ฆ


Explaining Naive Bayes and Other Linear Classifiers with Polynomial Time and Delay

arXiv.org Machine Learning

Recent work proposed the computation of so-called PIexplanations of Naive Bayes Classifiers (NBCs) [29]. PIexplanations are subset-minimal sets of feature-value pairs that are sufficient for the prediction, and have been computed with state-of-the-art exact algorithms that are worst-case exponential in time and space. In contrast, we show that the computation of one PIexplanation for an NBC can be achieved in log-linear time, and that the same result also applies to the more general class of linear classifiers. Furthermore, we show that the enumeration of PIexplanations can be obtained with polynomial delay. Experimental results demonstrate the performance gains of the new algorithms when compared with earlier work. The experimental results also investigate ways to measure the quality of heuristic explanations.


Why robots and artificial intelligence creep us out

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People tend to accept robots with humanlike characteristics up to a point. Then, things get strangely uncomfortable. Robots have appeared in film for more than 100 years, with the first depiction occurring in the silent film "The Master Mystery," starring magician-turned-wannabe-actor Harry Houdini. Previously referred to as "automatons" before "robot" became commonplace, these metal machines have been portrayed as delightful helpers ร  la C-3PO and WALL-E and as villains, like the T-800 from "Terminator" or VIKI from "I, Robot." Whether a robot is "good" or "bad" isn't the ultimate indicator of whether we fear them or not.



The best tech gifts to upgrade your home theater

Engadget

With movie theaters largely off the table and new game systems on the way it's the perfect time to upgrade to your home theater. Whether you're looking for a $50 stocking stuffer, a big-ticket new TV or something in between there are plenty of ways to improve the room where you spend a lot of your time. Faster apps, bigger screens and more control are right at your fingertips, so let's take a look at some of the best devices available right now. If you're looking for the simplest upgrade for your TV, the Streaming Stick fits the bill. It's USB-powered so you may not even need to find a nearby outlet and it's small enough to fit in a pocket when you're taking a trip (or staying with relatives) so you can bring your own apps and queues along for the ride.


Automation can free up journalists to focus more on reporting

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Last August I decided to hire a journalist to produce content for a project. This person would help me with social media posts, newsletters and reports, with the goal of providing other journalists with scientific knowledge coming from social media. After a few weeks, having worked on the budget and the targets I had in mind, I pivoted the whole plan and hired two part-time developers to create a Twitter bot and an automated report delivery system. In one stroke, I solved two problems: feeding my project's Twitter timeline and providing newsletter content for the users. After the launch, no human hands needed to touch those two streams of content. It was a classic scenario in which automation literally stole a journalist's job.