In 2004, Charles Lickel was eating in a dinner with some colleagues when he noticed that all of the patrons were rushing to the bar. Curious, he followed them to see what all the commotion was about. As it turned out, they were going to see Ken Jennings' historic six-month run on the game show, Jeopardy! Paul Horn, then director of IBM Research, had been bugging Lickel to come up with an idea for the company's next "grand challenge," Big Blue's tradition of tackling incredibly tough problems just to see if they can be solved. The last one drew wide attention when the firm's Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov at chess in 1996.

The team: Dutt, who has a background in theoretical physics and has done software-development work at Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Intel, oversees an 11-person team that includes software developers, mathematicians, data-science experts and a psychologist. "What's nice about the Seattle area is there's a growing job force, and talent in educated people who are skilled at doing these kinds of things," Dutt said. Not quite robots: Artificial intelligence is a pretty broad term (and often misused, industry insiders say). When Dimensional execs say A.I., they don't mean a fully conversant robot that can also fold your laundry. Instead, they're building a software platform that provides off-the-shelf pattern recognition and analysis tools.

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Every year and in every sport, digital technology's role in officiating live gameplay expands. Innovations like MLB's Statcast and the NBA's SportVU systems have leveraged data to collect a wealth of information about all aspects of games, offering detailed feedback to help coaches and players improve performance and grant fans greater access. But applying the same technology to help referees make better calls has been much more controversial, in part because the stakes are so high. The decision on a tough call can be the difference between a win or a loss. Officiating is, of course, subjective, and therefore susceptible to human error.

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Last weekend I started a new Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence project. This time I am using cats to model lifelike behavior in a virtual environment of a typical home with typical furniture and other objects. Behavior and AI controlled animations are still very limited, and there is lots of work to be done in those areas. My goal is the same as in my previous projects - to make a lifelike artificial intelligence module with personalized and unpredictable, but logical behavior which evolves while the subject learns new things and experiences both pleasant and unpleasant events. This is not based on state machines or simple behavior trees. Instead, it is based on my own research in the field of artificial intelligence, and it resembles real cognitive information processing.

I am amazed sometimes by how technology is impacting the world we live in. For example, SpaceX being so successful in reusing spaceships may not have a great impact today, but it does change the way we look at the future, and what we understand by science fiction. Human Resource is one of those industries which does not quite make its way into science fiction books, and no kid grows up thinking of revolutionizing the technology inside this particular market. Traditionally, HR was always viewed as a paper-intensive, non-innovative area, where salary decisions are made, people get hired or fired and where team building sessions are organized. But behind the scenes, the industry is changing and incorporating technology at a rapid pace, even if it wasn't designed for HR to start with.

Data-driven techniques have improved decision-making processes for people in industries such as finance and real estate. Yet, despite promising solutions that data analytics and artificial intelligence/machine learning (ML) tools can bring to healthcare, the industry remains largely unconvinced. In this O'Reilly report, you'll explore the potential of--and impediments to--widespread adoption of AI and ML in the medical field. You'll also learn how extensive government regulation and resistance from the medical community have so far stymied full-scale acceptance of sophisticated data analytics in healthcare. Mike Barlow is an award-winning journalist, author, and communications strategy consultant.

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