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Death by GPS: are satnavs changing our brains?

The Guardian

One early morning in March 2011, Albert Chretien and his wife, Rita, loaded their Chevrolet Astro van and drove away from their home in Penticton, British Columbia. Their destination was Las Vegas, where Albert planned to attend a trade show. Rather than stick to the most direct route, they decided to take a scenic road less travelled, Idaho State Highway 51. The Chretiens figured there had to be a turnoff from Idaho 51 that would lead them east to US Route 93 all the way to Vegas. Albert and Rita had known each other since high school. During their 38 years of marriage, they had rarely been apart. They worked together, managing their own small excavation business.


Could IBM's Watson Be A Cockpit Mentor?

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IBM has been extensively involved in almost all phases of airline information technology. Now it is moving to use the formidable question-answering capabilities of Watson and new techniques like Natural Language Processing, Cognitive Computing and Machine Learning to help pilots deal with maintenance challenges in flight, according to Brad Clossen, senior managing consultant. "We already help customer service agents, flight attendants, pilots and technical staff," the IBM executive says. "The next step is cognitive computing." The remarkable Watson can understand questions phrased in natural human language; it does not require input to adhere to rigid computer grammar.



Augmented eternity: scientists aim to let us speak from beyond the grave

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Would you like a version of yourself to live on after death? A radical new concept called "augmented eternity" could make that fantasy a reality, creating a posthumous impression of our knowledge, opinions and even parts of our personality in digital form. Researchers at the MIT Media Lab and Ryerson University in Toronto believe that by applying artificial intelligence to all the data we produce each day, we may be able to transfer our thoughts to a virtual entity that not only survives our physical demise but continues to learn as new information is plugged into it. Dr Hossein Rahnama, a visiting scholar at the Media Lab and research and innovation director of Ryerson's Digital Media Zone, is planning to publish a paper on augmented eternity later this year. "My ultimate goal is to bridge the gap between life and death by eternalizing our digital identity," says Rahnama, who is also founder of Flybits, a cloud-based service that modifies the behavior of mobile apps based on where and how the customer is using it.


The Designer's AI Study Guide -- uxdesign.cc – User Experience Design

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As artificial intelligence gains popularity, designers will need to adapt. Here's how to get started. It seems like everyone wants to invest in artificial intelligence (AI). And it's not just the tech giants: USAA is using AI to protect its users from identity theft and Under Armour has connected its health app, MyFitnessPal, to IBM Watson so users can get a more thorough read of their health. AI is already a 15 billion dollar industry, according to the MIT Technology Review, with more than 2,600 companies developing their own tech, and the value of AI isreported to rise to over 70 billion by 2020.


What do we do better than any other CRM? - Blog Marketeer

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Thinking about how important the funnel of a customer is for a company, we appreciate when new tools make the process easier. This is why we built Marketeer and today we are presenting version 3.0 with Marketeer Intelligent CRM. I have been working with artificial intelligence for a while – since the end of the 90s to be exact meanwhile I was running an advertising company. In 2012 I decided to invest time and money into building a new product that would help me make communication easier and effective for my clients. And today, we have it!



CereLabs

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The # AIwinter that took place in 1974-80 and 1987-93 occurred because of many reasons. Few of those are Understanding human language and speech by a machine turned out to be not easy problems to solve. Lot of hype was associated that # AI would have been able to solve this problem during that time, but it couldn't. Machine translation thus ended up to be an expensive project, and lot of disappointments followed. This led to limited funding even though back propagation algorithm was invented.


A gentle introduction to Naïve Bayes classification using R

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Now that we have a model, we can do some predicting. We do this by feeding our test data into our model and comparing the predicted party affiliations with the known ones. The latter is done via the wonderfully named confusion matrix – a table in which true and predicted values for each of the predicted classes are displayed in a matrix format.


First US Missile with Artificial Intelligence to be Deployed by 2018

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An anti-ship cruise missile (ASCM) developed by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) that "thinks" thanks to its onboard artificial intelligence (AI) will arm U.S. Navy warships and strike aircraft beginning 2019 and U.S. Air Force combat aircraft a year earlier. The Long Range Anti-Ship Missile (LRASM) can find a warship target on its own by using its onboard AI to locate a specific warship from among a fleet of enemy warships. A multi-mode seeker guided by the AI ensures the correct warship is hit in a specific area to maximize the probability of sinking the target. The AI enables autonomous targeting by using on-board targeting systems to independently acquire a target without the need for prior precision intelligence, GPS or data-links. These capabilities allow positive target identification and the precision engagement of moving warships in an enemy fleet heavily defended by surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) and electronic countermeasures. The missile is designed with counter-countermeasures to evade active defense systems on enemy ships.