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Artificial Intelligence In 2017: Skynet, Is That You?

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Artificial intelligence is defined as the study and design of intelligent agents, which are systems that can perceive their environment and take actions that maximize the chance of success. AI makes it possible for machines to learn from experiences and perform tasks just like humans.


Why your virtual assistant still needs some assistance

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It's unsurprising that connected-home technologies and virtual assistants should both be expected to mature after the learning technologies, given the former rely heavily on artificial intelligence, which in turn relies almost completely on the latter.


Learning Neural Audio Embeddings for Grounding Semantics in Auditory Perception

Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research

Multi-modal semantics, which aims to ground semantic representations in perception, has relied on feature norms or raw image data for perceptual input. In this paper we examine grounding semantic representations in raw auditory data, using standard evaluations for multi-modal semantics. After having shown the quality of such auditorily grounded representations, we show how they can be applied to tasks where auditory perception is relevant, including two unsupervised categorization experiments, and provide further analysis. We find that features transfered from deep neural networks outperform bag of audio words approaches. To our knowledge, this is the first work to construct multi-modal models from a combination of textual information and auditory information extracted from deep neural networks, and the first work to evaluate the performance of tri-modal (textual, visual and auditory) semantic models.


[D] AlphaZero for G of GAN • r/MachineLearning

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Let's consider a GAN in which G is AlphaZero-like algorithm. Unlike other GAN, G of this one can directly take samples from the dataset as an input in the sense that they can be used in the tree. There are various kinds of RL problems whose evaluation cannot be easily done by a simple algorithm without using a NN. SeqGAN, LeakGAN) is one example, and this is something I'm particularly interested in. Realistic *** generation is a special subset of the above problems in the sense that infinite supply of labelled (in the sense that they are realistic or not) samples are available.


Jedi holiday magic: 'Star Wars' holds top spot on Christmas weekend

Los Angeles Times

Santa and his reindeer got nothing on Rey, Finn and Poe. Moviegoers may have been immersed in holiday parties and preparations in the days leading up to Christmas, but they still filled theaters for some Jedi Knight magic. As expected, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" held the top spot at the box office over the weekend. Director Rian Johnson's distinctive take on the sci-fi franchise has been equally lauded by critics and audiences alike. With its 92% fresh score on Rotten Tomatoes and A rating on CinemaScore, "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" is flying as high as Santa this Christmas.


Content Creation Robots Are Here [Examples]

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I had a conversation with BuzzSumo co-founder Steve Rayson who said writing algorithms are available for purchase, have been bought, and are in use by major platforms. And, they are creating well-written, data-backed articles, he said. I knew the AI landscape was evolving in the industry: But just how much would it really affect content creation? I took a data-driven look at the reality. How much has AI been implemented behind the scenes for content creation?


Engines of creation – and the people who build them

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Turing was pushing back against the idea that computers could do nothing more than what they were instructed to do.


AI is Here to Assist, Not to Replace – Pivigo – Medium

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AI is assisting people in being more efficient and remove the need for banal repetitive tasks, giving us more of our most valuable currency, time. Imagine you own a brewery that creates bold new eccentric craft beers. A lot of time will be spent researching and inventing new and creative flavours, bottle artwork, and names. Imagine you have created the craft beer that is going to take over London, yet you cannot think of an apt name for such a maverick beverage. That is where AI and specifically, machine learning, revolutionises the process.


College Students Come up With Plug-In to Combat Fake News

U.S. News

The winning team was comprised of four students: Michael Lopez-Brau and Stefan Uddenberg, both doctoral students in Yale's psychology department; Alex Cui, an undergraduate who studies machine learning at the California Institute of Technology; and Jeff An, who studies computer science at the University of Waterloo and business at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario.


Button Pushers – Cyber Folk – Medium

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When the machines take over, it won't with a bang but a whimper. Did you ever have the feeling that every time you push a button, it pushes you back? Extrapolating from Newton's law of "equal and opposite reaction," we might update this to note that (1) everything you watch watches you; (2) that which liberates (or cures) can also enslave (or make ill); (3) if it's free, the hidden costs are exorbitant. Welcome to the world of quantum networking and instant digital karma. The advent of "fake news" as a political trope based on emerging realities shows us how easy it is to manipulate people and events if you go a mile wide and an inch deep.