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To Dr. Ryszard Michalski, the man who coined the term "Machine Learning", did a lot to advance the field and who, sadly, passed away on September 20, 2015. When in 1990 I first visited Dr. Ryszard Michalski, the famous AI researcher and the man who coined the term "Machine Learning", his research division in George Mason University (Virginia) was called "The Center for Artificial Intelligence." Two years later, I visited this place again, and now it was called "The Center for Machine Learning." I was curious and asked Dr. Michalski why he renamed his center in spite of no visible change of direction in his research and that of his colleagues. He smiled and said that in the eyes of many people, the term "AI" had discredited itself by overpromise.


Video Friday: Faceless Humanoid, Robot Inside Eyeball, and Marc Raibert on Robotic Progress

IEEE Spectrum Robotics

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Boston Dynamics co-founder and president Marc Raibert was at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this week, where he discussed a host of robot-related topics, including bioinspired design, autonomy, robot abuse, and life as part of Google. How weird is it that Dreamer looks almost as cute with NO FACE ON? That's how you know you've got a robot that's adorable all the way through.


Autonomous sailing drones investigate climate change on the high seas

ZDNet

An autonomous sail boat collects ocean data in the Dutch Harbor, Alaska. A whopping 97 percent of the Earth's water is in oceans, so it's vital that we monitor and understand them. Therefore, ocean data is regularly collected by government agencies, research scientists, and private companies. Currently, ocean research is conducted on large, expensive ships, but a couple of entrepreneurs in California have a new solution: autonomous sailing drones. A company called Saildrone launched commercially this year, and the founders have announced that they raised 14 million in Series A funding, led by Social Capital with investments from the Capricorn Investment Group and Lux Capital.


The Next Wave of Deep Learning Applications

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Again, remember that this is not a comprehensive list, but that it is notable in that there have been so very many new additions to the base of literature from many disciplines added in just the last few weeks. Just one year ago, we pulled the hype hat over our eyes to some extentโ€“after all, this was most useful in tagging images on social sites and getting machines to paint pictures. The potential for higher purposes was there (the supercomputing world is seeing it too) but just beyond reach. We are, it is safe to say, at the real beginning of mainstream applications for deep learning.


Machine learning system brings still images to life by guessing what comes next

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Whether it's guessing which songs you want to listen to or which ads you should be shown, modern AI is increasingly focused on predicting the future. But there's an enormous gulf between those kind of applications and looking at a scene and guessing what will happen next. That's what researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have done, with a new paper revealing not just their ability to look at still images and guess what will happen next -- something we've covered in the past -- but to actually generate video of it. "What we're interested in is teaching machines what can happen in a particular setting," Carl Vondrick, a Ph.D. student in computer science, told Digital Trends. "For example, we wanted a machine to recognize what happens on a beach. We want it to know that waves are going to crash, people are going to play in the water -- these are all things it's very difficult to teach a machine. The reason is that it would be very time-consuming for a person to sit down and write rules to explain everything that can happen in any given scenario. What we wanted to do was to teach them from watching massive amounts of video instead."


Across the Network -- AI Week in Review Sept 16

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For the longest time, I was a Google Reader guy. I had a list of sites that I wanted to follow, and Reader was the way that I could quickly triage the news that I cared about. I'm almost embarrassed to admit it because RSS feeds are so last decade, but I like being in control of what I read and what I don't read. When Google Reader was unceremoniously shut down, I shuffled back and forth between different RSS readers until I found Feedly. Feedly makes a solid product, but I've never fully bought in.


What artificial intelligence will look like in 2030

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We believe specialized AI applications will become both increasingly common and more useful by 2030, improving our economy and quality of life,


AQMetrics Transforming Regulatory Compliance with Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence (AI), long the subject of science fiction, is now becoming more and more widespread and is seen as an increasingly important computer science across multiple industries. In Financial Services in particular, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing is increasingly used today to make sense of big, complex data in a wide range of areas. One such area is regulatory compliance. The use of AI โ€“ particularly Natural Language Understanding (NLU), a subset of Natural Language Processing โ€“ can help firms to realise a number of benefits, including improving the speed and efficiency with which they achieve compliance, and making that compliance much more robust. As we've seen over just the last couple of years with the introduction of MiFID I & II, UCITS, AIFMD and the like, there is a constant stream of documents being issued by regulators, which can each run to hundreds, or even thousands, of pages.


Predicting a Future Where the Future Is Routinely Predicted

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Artificial intelligence systems will be able to give managers real-time insights about their business operations -- as well as detect early warnings of problems before they occur. This article is part of an MIT SMR initiative exploring how technology is reshaping the practice of management. Editor's Note: This article is one of a special series of 14 commissioned essays MIT Sloan Management Review is publishing to celebrate the launch of our new Frontiers initiative. Each essay gives the author's response to this question: "Within the next five years, how will technology change the practice of management in a way we have not yet witnessed?" Workers on the factory floor have suddenly gathered at a point along the production line.


Ministry of Defence invests 30 million in killer laser cannon

The Independent - Tech

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display