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Teaching machines to predict the future
When we see two people meet, we can often predict what happens next: a handshake, a hug, or maybe even a kiss. Our ability to anticipate actions is thanks to intuitions born out of a lifetime of experiences. Machines, on the other hand, have trouble making use of complex knowledge like that. Computer systems that predict actions would open up new possibilities ranging from robots that can better navigate human environments, to emergency response systems that predict falls, to Google Glass-style headsets that feed you suggestions for what to do in different situations. This week researchers from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have made an important new breakthrough in predictive vision, developing an algorithm that can anticipate interactions more accurately than ever before.
Toyota's US Robotics Boss Promises AI Technology Within 5 Years
The U.S. robotics expert tapped to head Toyota's Silicon Valley research company says the 1 billion investment by the giant Japanese automaker will start showing results within five years. Gill Pratt told reporters that the Toyota Research Institute is also looking ahead into the distant future when there will be cars that anyone, including children and the elderly, can ride in on their own, as well as robots that help out in homes. Pratt, a former program manager at the U.S. military's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, joined Toyota Motor Corp. first as a technical adviser when it set up its artificial intelligence research effort at Stanford University and MIT. He said safety features will be the first types of AI applications to appear in Toyota vehicles. Such features are already offered on some models now being sold, such as sensors that help cars brake or warn drivers before a possible crash, and cars that drive themselves automatically into parking spaces or on certain roads.
Staqu Technologies
But there are other'fashion-genic' people as well, living in this world, who take their dressing more seriously than Mark Zuckerberg (sorry Mark;-)). After all, "your dressing sense is the first thing anyone can see and it's the first impression that counts right?". Just to assist and improve the quest of such fashion lovers, we have created the most insane AI engine ever. You or your friend may have missed what Tom Cruise wore in MI5 in its famous aeroplane shot (albeit the scene was meant to enjoy the action and not fashion), but this AI once trained will never miss such fine detail. I am sure it might be bugging you to not know the fine details that go behind this awesome engine; I mean how can a dumb computer recommend a person's jewelry, shoes or even jeans with a fashion sense rivaling that of a fashion curator?
Brian Eno Talks About Using Artificial Intelligence To Create Music And Art
On June 28, Brian Eno will launch a new video experience for the title track of his latest album The Ship, which was released in April. What's different about this music video is, according to Eno, it isn't really a music video at all, but rather a visual experience informed by and created with artificial intelligence. "Just as I'm excited about the possibilities of artificial intelligence and new technologies, I'm so incredibly and numbingly bored with videos and the traditional music videos, that I just couldn't imagine wanting to do that," said Eno, on stage at Cannes Lions. "So really, this is an attempt to say, is there some other way we can do this thing?" The legendary artist and producer said that he's interested in finding out what new technologies can do, primarily because they so often can do something nobody ever thought they could do.
Google's AI fears are adorably mundane, for now
Robots will learn the same way as AI algorithms, through iteration and exploration. Unlike software, however, a robot that's trying new things can actually kill someone. To prevent negative side effects, researchers need to penalize unwanted changes to the environment, while still allowing a robot some leeway to explore and learn. For instance, if a bot is focused just on cleaning, it may "engage in major disruptions of the broader environment [like breaking a wall] if doing so provides even a tiny advantage for the task at hand." To solve that, it proposes solutions like simulated and constrained exploration, human oversight, and goals that heavily weigh risk.
What is in a Name? A Data Scientist by any other name … - International Blog
The term "data science" was first used by the statistician William H. Cleveland in his 2001 paper entitled, "Data Science: An Action Plan for Expanding the Technical Areas of the field of Statistics". Cleveland emphasized that the "[results in] data science should be judged by the extent to which they enable the analyst to learn from data". The scientific discipline of learning from data has been happening for centuries before the term data science ever came into being. Statisticians have been collecting, processing, analysing, visualising and interpreting vast amounts of diverse data to generate models. In doing so, they developed many algorithms that are used for regression and classification such as GLM (Generalised Linear Modeling) and embedded in statistical packages such as SAS and SPSS that are used extensively to this day.
SoundCloud » Introducing Suggested Tracks
SoundCloud is built for discovery; for the magic moment when you're blown away by an artist you've never heard before. Connecting listeners to new artists and artists to new listeners is what we do. Today we're excited to announce that we've started rolling out our newest discovery feature, Suggested Tracks, across all SoundCloud platforms. It uses your listening activity to automatically find new tracks and artists – ones that you've likely never heard before, but are similar to the things you already know and love. And with 125 million tracks and counting on SoundCloud, there's always more to discover.