The following are news releases from AAAI PO, held July 30 -August 3, in Boston. In the opening plenary session at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference in Boston this week, Dr. Daniel G. Bobrow, of Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and President of AAAI, challenged the audience to move towards a far more "interactive view - between agents, people and technologies. Our real challenge," he said, "is not just to build intelligent systems, but to help corporations and government build intelligent organizations. We need to help people expand their viewpoints and improve their capabilities by distributing knowledge. AI should play a key role in systems that enhance the human values of the world we live in."

What is artificial intelligence, commonly known as AI? Perhaps you think it is a silly sci-fi concept, but you've probably heard it mentioned frequently and you just don't get it. Many people are confused about AI because we associate it with the movies: "Star Wars," "2001: A Space Odyssey" or even "The Jetsons." But these are fictional stories and AI is anything but fictional. It can be confusing because it is such a broad topic, including everything from your smartphone to self-driving cars.

This study provides an analysis of the African Artificial Intelligence (AI) market. The stakeholder scope includes international technology corporations and African start-ups; technology scope includes computer vision, deep learning, machine learning, natural language processing, neural networks, predictive analytics, and robotics; and the end-user scope includes a number of industries such as banking and financial services and insurance (BFSI), healthcare, manufacturing, mining, hospitality and media, amongst others. This study details the key components of an AI ecosystem and explains how AI converges with technologies such as analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR). It provides a snapshot of global AI trends in terms of key investments, strategy and competition, and also lists the acquisition-led strategies adopted by leading technology corporations including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, Facebook, Salesforce and IBM. This study provides an analysis of the African AI market, including the competitive landscape and the extent of AI market development across key African countries, along with the impact potential and extent of market penetration of various AI technologies and the degree of AI adoption across key industry verticals.

Hi, I work as a Research Assistant at Insight Centre for Data Analytics at the DCU, in Dublin. In our lab, we have a reading group session on Fridays, where we discuss about interesting research works in mostly Deep Learning. We have fair enough attendance and a discussion session that follows will be for quite a long time(about an hour). I have found this idea extremely useful to get to know about interesting researches around the world.

There has been fascinating work on creating artistic transformations of images by Gatys. This was revolutionary in how we can in some sense alter the 'style' of an image while generally preserving its 'content'. In our work, we present a method for creating new sounds using a similar approach, treating it as a style-transfer problem, starting from a random-noise input signal and iteratively using back-propagation to optimize the sound to conform to filter-outputs from a pre-trained neural architecture of interest. For demonstration, we investigate two different tasks, resulting in bandwidth expansion/compression, and timbral transfer from singing voice to musical instruments. A feature of our method is that a single architecture can generate these different audio-style-transfer types using the same set of parameters which otherwise require different complex hand-tuned diverse signal processing pipelines.

We tested every streaming box you can buy, and our two favorite are both great devices--but which one is right for you? The Roku Ultra retails for $99.99. Roku is developing its own voice assistant and will begin licensing its tech standards to other product makers in hopes of making it easier to expand consumers' home-streaming video setups. The Los Gatos, Calif.-based TV streaming tech company plans to have its Roku voice-powered Entertainment Assistant update available this fall for most Roku TVs and players. Roku also is launching new Roku Connect software that other device makers can license to create smart speakers and sound bars that will automatically link wirelessly to Roku TVs and media players.

The Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) will again be well-represented at the 2018 edition of the Consumer Electronics Show, taking over Las Vegas Jan. 9-12. This is the second of two stories looking at what some of MESA's members will be showcasing at the largest technology show in the world. Accenture: The expanding connectivity and uses of artificial intelligence (AI), the fueling of the Internet of Things (IoT) by fifth-generation (5G) networks, and the growing consumer applications of blockchain technology will be key stories to watch at the show, according to Gregory Roberts, managing director of Accenture's North American high-tech industry practice. "Additional stories to track will be products becoming more software-smart and the use of in-vehicle AI to drive the connected car market," he said. The expanding connectivity and uses of AI will be a central storyline at CES, he predicted, adding: "The story will be about more pervasive use of the technology than at last year's CES, spanning a wider range of applications, connecting to more devices and networks."

Artificial Intelligence The issue of the impact of artificial intelligence on the workplace has already seen action in Congress in the context of a debate over autonomous vehicles. Under current law, driving rules are set by states. Last year, the House passed H.R. 388, the SE:F DRIVE Act, and the Senate is …

The following excerpts are from an interview with Marvin Minsky which took place at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on January 23rd, 1991. The interview, which is included in its entirety as a Foreword in the book Understanding Music with AI: Perspectives on Music Cognition (edited by Mira Balaban, Kemal Ebcioglu, and Otto Laske), is a conversation about music, its peculiar features as a human activity, the special problems it poses for the scientist, and the suitability of AI methods for clarifying and/or solving some of these problems. The conversation is open-ended, and should be read accordingly, as a discourse to be continued at another time. OL: I wish we could read people's brains when they are engaged in music-making. Since that is, alas, beyond the state of the art of AI, we are forced to deal with such epistemological issues as how to represent knowledge on the basis of what people tell us they do, which in most cases isn't very close to what they are actually doing.

Apple's delayed HomePod is coming to challenge smart speakers from Amazon and Google. The device will use Siri as its intelligent assistant front end, and is supposed to sound pretty good to boot. Now, according to a report at 9to5Mac and confirmed on our own iPhones, Siri includes a new ability to play you a podcast when asked what the news is. The feature appears in the latest iOS beta, 11.2.5, which is available for developers now. When you ask, "Hey Siri, give me the news," you'll get a daily news podcast from The Washington Post.