The Philosophy Club took a look at artificial intelligence and how sci-fi can be reality. Philosophy instructor Daniel Vecchio was the presenter for the Tuesday, Oct. 4 meeting which featured a lecture on machines and if they could be the future of our world. Vecchio explained to the audience of 15 different groups of people perceive as living things, he went on further to discuss how to tell a difference between a living human and a computer. "Passing the Turing test, […], you watch a conversation going on, on a computer screen, one is a human, and the other is an artificial intelligence. "If the observer can't determine which is the human and which is the AI in a reliable manner, it doesn't pass the test and has no mind," he said. The test was created by Alan Turing to figure out machine intelligence. Faculty in attendance made a comparison to the Terminator franchise and how AIs can eventually take over should the human race not be careful. Another comparison was made to Star Trek where the characters were trying to figure out if a machine had a soul and should be treated with human rights or not. Students also were interested in the topic of AIs. Luis Guzman, history and journalism major, said,"The presentation was interesting.

Companies like IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon are actively leveraging A.I. as part of their technology stacks. However, in order to dominate the market, these vendors will need to monetize A.I. at a large scale. Who can win the early race to monetize A.I.? The battle in the artificial intelligence (A.I.) market has been heating up. IBM, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are all continuously releasing impressive technologies in the space that are capturing the minds of developers and customers. From a market perspective, A.I. is positioned to become a pillar of the next generation of software technologies.

Last week at RoboBusiness, I was fortunate to hear James Kuffner, CTO of Toyota's Research Institute (TRI), present his vision of a million connected robots. If this premise sounds scary, I'm sorry. Halloween is just around the corner. Seriously, it is worth digging into in greater detail. According to Kuffner, connectivity speeds are as important to cloud robotics as the growth of processing speeds or Moore's Law.

This week – augmenting human senses, stealing AI, Google tries to harness cloud robotics, Samsung gets its own Siri and we get a closer look on a farming robot. Plus – what is life and what is synthetic biology, designer babies and the future of human reproduction and a mask that allows you to smell virtual worlds. Biohacking may open us a way to sense the world in a completely and different way. And there are people who are working on projects aimed at augmenting our senses in a new and creative way. A Device For The Deaf That Lets You "Listen" With Your Skin It's called Versatile Extra-Sensory Transducer, or VEST in short, and it works by picking up sound either from surrounding or from a smartphone, and then translates them into movement of 32 tiny motors that vibrate on your back.

A month back, I participated in a Kaggle competition called TFI. I started with my first submission at 50th percentile. Having worked relentlessly on feature engineering for more than 2 weeks, I managed to reach 20th percentile. To my surprise, right after tuning the parameters of the machine learning algorithm I was using, I was able to breach top 10th percentile. This is how important tuning these machine learning algorithms are.

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We keep hearing about advances in artificial intelligence and the coming apocalypse as foreseen in the Terminator movies. But not all AI is created equal, and some will be squarely focused on doing one task really well. In the case of the /laundroid1, terrible name aside, that task is folding your laundry. Everyone hates folding their laundry, but it's a mandatory task if you don't want clean clothes that require a hot iron to get the creases out. If there was a machine that could do the folding for you, though?

It helps us drive our cars, use our cell phones and socialize online, but artificial intelligence is beginning to make a big difference in cancer, too. And that may be just the beginning, Charlie Rose reports on the next edition of 60 Minutes, Sunday, Oct. 9 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 8 p.m. PT. Watson, the IBM technology, is doing much more now than beating humans on TV's "Jeopardy!" Five years after that, the A.I. technology has the ability to learn and analyze mountains of data. It is now becoming a crucial tool for doctors.

For the third quarter of 2016, MobiHealthNews tracked just shy of 600 million in deals. While a few large deals anchored the quarter, the majority of the 45 we tracked this quarter were small; only seven were more than 20 million, most were 10 million or less. For this analysis, we've omitted investments in joint ventures like Verily and Sanofi's OnDuo as well as grant funding. Read on for the 45 deals in the digital health space we tracked throughout the quarter, listed in order from largest to smallest amount of funding. Canada-based wearable technology company Thalmic Labs, which makes the connected armband Myo, raised 120 million in Series B funding in a round led by Intel Capital, the Amazon Alexa Fund and Fidelity Investments Canada.

In this special guest feature, Padraig Stapleton, VP of Engineering at Argyle Data discusses how the use of machine learning can help mobile operators like Verizon, BT, and others use big data and machine learning technologies to help detect and stop, cyber gangs in real-time, from stealing billions via global mobile fraud. Padraig Stapleton brings years of industry-leading management and technical expertise across a number of areas including mobile telecommunications and big data. Most recently he was VP of Engineering and Operations for the Big Data group in AT&T responsible for development of their big data platform. Previously to that he was involved in a number of successful startups as VP of Engineering building development teams and delivering innovative products to the market place. Padraig has held senior leadership roles in various companies including Telephia, which was acquired by Nielsen, and InterWave Communications.