Source(d), a Madrid, Spain-based startup that uses artifical intelligence to identify the most suitable developers for respective jobs, raised 6m in funding. Backers included Xavier Niel, Otium Venture and Sunstone Capital. The company intends to use the funds for commercial expansion in Europe and the United States and continued improvement of the artificial intelligence algorithms. Founded in March of 2015 by CEO Eiso Kant, Jorge Schnura and Philip von Have, source{d} develops deep learning (artificial intelligence) algorithms to identify, qualify and present developers to companies, by analyzing their code. By basing their approach on technical understanding, the process guarantees that the needs of their clients are met and the developers fit better with their technical challenge.

Google's CEO wants Google to become more than a search engine for everyone -- he wants it to be personalized. Sundar Pichai opened up Google's event Tuesday talking about the history of computing and how it's gotten to where it is today. Specifically, how artificial intelligence is the future of Google and the future of computing in general. "When I look ahead at where computing is headed, it's clear to me that we're moving from a mobile-first to an AI-first world," Pichai said. "Our goal is build a personal Google for each and every user. Just as we built a Google for everyone, we want to build each user his or her own Google."

Google Translate has become a quick-and-dirty translation solution for millions of people worldwide since it debuted a decade ago. But Google's engineers have been quietly tweaking their machine translation service's algorithms behind the scenes. They recently delivered a huge Google Translate upgrade that harnesses the popular artificial intelligence technique known as deep learning. Machine translation services such as Google Translate have mostly used a "phrase-based" approach of breaking down sentences into words and phrases to be independently translated. But several years ago, Google began experimenting with a deep-learning technique, called neural machine translation, that can translate entire sentences without breaking them down into smaller components.

New technologies aren't just the latest gadgets for the tech geeks to drool over; these new technologies are transforming our economy. In fact, some people believe that the technologies with transform our world and trigger a 4th industrial revolution because estimates suggest we may lose as many as 7 million traditional jobs worldwide by 2025. The good news is that many of these jobs won't just be usurped by technologies like robotics and artificial intelligence -- the new technologies will also create new jobs and entire new job categories. In other words: no one is immune from these technological developments, including you! The smart ones among us will develop their careers to succeed in this new world.

The Initiative for a Synthesis in Studies of Awareness will organize a two-week Summer School, with plenary lectures in the morning and parallel sessions in the afternoon, in which the lecturers will lead study groups that are aimed at producing original research of publishable quality. The lectures will cover topics in various aspects of neuroscience, experimental as well as computational; theoretical physics; logic and philosophy; and various other fields in cognitive science and the study of complex systems, including artificial intelligence, artificial life, and robotics. We invite graduate students and postdoctoral researchers to participate in the summer school. Organizers will provide lodging for all accepted students and travel support for selected students. Applications will be open until December 25, 2016.

Nick Bostrom: London's DeepMind is winning the global race to develop human-level artificial intelligence (businessinsider.com) This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 75%. Nick Bostrom, one of the leading voices on artificial intelligence, has singled out London research lab DeepMind as the company closest to developing a system that can mimic human-level artificial intelligence - a target widely shared by those at the forefront of the AI industry. When asked who was leading the global AI race, Bostrom immediately responded with DeepMind. "Right now, I think here in London we have the DeepMind group who are, I think, the biggest [group] specifically focused on solving general intelligence," Bostrom told Business Insider at a breakfast meeting aboard the Sunbourn Yacht Hotel in East London on Wednesday.

The Google Pixel phone is finally here, and it's bringing AI with it. The latest pure Android smartphone was announced at a Google event on Tuesday, along with a new Daydream View virtual reality (VR) headset, a new Google Wi-Fi router, and a new Chromecast. Google CEO Sundar Pichai opened the event, explaining the transition from PC to web, and now web to mobile. He then spoke about how Google believes the tech world is in the midst of a transition from "mobile-first to AI-first." That AI focus is built around Google Assistant, Google's personal assistant that was unveiled in May.

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