To get a more accurate assessment of the opinion of leading researchers in the field, I turned to the Fellows of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, a group of researchers who are recognized as having made significant, sustained contributions to the field. "In his book, Nick Bostrom has defined Superintelligence as'an intellect that is much smarter than the best human brains in practically every field, including scientific creativity, general wisdom and social skills.' When do you think we will achieve Superintelligence?"

Cooperation is one of the hallmarks of being human. We are extremely social compared to other species. On a regular basis, we all enter into helping others in small but important ways, whether it be letting someone out in traffic or giving a tip for good service. We do this without any guarantee of payback. Donations are made at a small personal cost but with a bigger benefit to the recipient. This form of cooperation, or donation to others, is called indirect reciprocity and helps human society to thrive.

SK Telecom Co., South Korea's top mobile carrier, said Wednesday it has launched a research project on artificial intelligence to better develop its virtual home assistant service. Earlier this month, SK Telecom introduced an advanced voice recognition service that allows users to control home appliances and listen to music using voice commands. The new service is called "NUGU," which means "who" in Korean. SK Telecom said the new service can increase its accuracy of voice recognition, using deep-learning technology. In a statement, SK Telecom said, "Through the application of a cloud-based deep-learning framework, NUGU is designed to evolve by itself. NUGU will be able to strengthen its own performance -- including speech recognition accuracy -- with the growing number of customers who use the service."

Over three separate days of testing, Rebchook's favorite recommendation came from the algorithm each day, as did two of his three overall favorites. "I couldn't really differentiate between what the bots picked and the human picked," Rebchook said. "I guess if computers can beat us at chess and Go, they can best us at picking houses, too."

Not too many years from now, your day will look very different. You will have self-driving cars to rid you of your nightmare commute and AI assistants to take care of everyday drudgery: from grocery shopping to setting up appointments. Smart drugs and nanobots loaded in your blood will keep your body and mind performing at their peak. Wearable sensors and smart clothing will ensure that your doctor knows if anything goes wrong. It'll be a life that even the Jetsons will be jealous of, and it'll be yours if you just let Silicon Valley do its thing--right?

The internet has evolved a great deal since it was first launched back in the 80s. Back then, there was no such thing as a high-speed internet connection, hence the need for simplistic, text-based website with no variations in font, typography, layout or visual content. A website back then consisted of nothing but pages and pages of standard text placed in front of a white background, with no pictures and no font variations except those in size. One could argue that reading a book was probably a more enriched experience back then. Fast forward a decade, and we got our standard wired connections.

The media is to blame for the hysteria around Artificial Intelligence (AI), according to senior strategic designer at BCG Digital Ventures, Chris Naylor. Human intelligences exhibited by machines is changing the way consumers interact with businesses and can be taken advantage of right now- without the world coming to a fiery end. Naylor explained to the audience at yesterday's Daze of Disruption the three main types of AI and how businesses, like Spotify and ANZ, are using artificial intelligence to successfully power customer interaction and drive greater value. "Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to boom into a 70 billion dollar industry, it's easy to see why it's touted as the next big thing. But the hype is a shrouded with mystery, AI is often seen as this futuristic technology out of reach for most companies and limited to powering autonomous cars and useless chatbots. But the reality is that AI is here and you can take advantage of it today," Naylor said.

IBM Research announced a multi-year collaboration with the Department of Brain & Cognitive Sciences at MIT to advance the scientific field of machine vision, a core aspect of artificial intelligence. The new IBM-MIT Laboratory for Brain-inspired Multimedia Machine Comprehension's (BM3C) goal will be to develop cognitive computing systems that emulate the human ability to understand and integrate inputs from multiple sources of audio and visual information into a detailed computer representation of the world that can be used in a variety of computer applications in industries such as healthcare, education, and entertainment. The BM3C will address technical challenges around both pattern recognition and prediction methods in the field of machine vision that are currently impossible for machines alone to accomplish. For instance, humans watching a short video of a real-world event can easily recognize and produce a verbal description of what happened in the clip as well as assess and predict the likelihood of a variety of subsequent events, but for a machine, this ability is currently impossible. Beginning in September 2016 in Cambridge, the BMC3 collaboration will bring together leading brain, cognitive, and computer scientists to conduct research in the field of unsupervised machine understanding of audio-visual streams of data, using insights from next-generation models of the brain to inform advances in machine vision.

Oracle and Salesforce both announced "AI" initiatives this week, but there are differences in the scope and scale of what's promised, the pace of their rollouts, and even how they're talking about artificial intelligence. For starters, neither vendor is talking about the sort of sentient, general-purpose AI seen in science fiction depictions ranging from "Iron Man" and "Star Trek" to "The Terminator" and "2001 a Space Odyssey." Rather, both vendors are talking about assisting humans with "smart" apps that apply closed-loop machine learning and data science to combinations of customer data and third-party data. In some apps you'll also see human-to-machine and machine-to-human interaction capabilities including natural language processing, voice recognition, and machine vision. Oracle Adaptive Intelligent Apps are powered by the Web-scale Oracle Data Cloud andthe company's massive cloud compute capacity.

Machine Learning is being used to solve many problems, which problems can you use it for? In the last 5 years there has been growing success using machine learning. Rapidly increasing processor speed and access to large scale data sets are allowing for many new problems to utilize machine learning successfully. Today machine learning is being applied by innovative companies in almost every field. Using machine learning to solve problems is becoming central to many companies core points of differentiation.