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Pichai sees deviceless computing - Taipei Times

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Forget PC doldrums and waning smartphone demand. Google thinks computers will one day cease being physical devices. "Looking to the future, the next big step will be for the very concept of the'device' to fade away," Google chief executive officer Sundar Pichai wrote on Thursday in a letter to shareholders of parent Alphabet Inc. "Over time, the computer itself -- whatever its form factor -- will be an intelligent assistant helping you through your day." Instead of online information and activity happening mostly on the rectangular touch screens of smartphones, Pichai sees artificial intelligence (AI) powering increasingly formless computers. "We will move from mobile-first to an AI-first world," he said.


The Data Science that Animates Amy - x.ai

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Data science is at the core of Amy Ingram, our AI personal assistant, and Data Scientists make up a big part of our team. To animate Amy (and her twin brother Andrew), we are teaching her to understand scheduling related emails. Teaching machines to parse natural language alone is a daunting challenge (and represents an entire field, Natural Language Processing or NLP). But that's not the end of it, because humans are not very precise communicators, even at our best. As a result, teaching Amy to successfully negotiate meeting times and locations for our beta customers has required collecting large amounts of data and applying some of the most advanced Machine Learning in the academy, stretching it beyond its usual boundaries.


Just Mobile on Flipboard

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Do they miss you when you're away on business? Can they put on a VR headset without their parents' help? That last one is pretty important. The year is zipping by, but before we launch full-force into next month, there's just about enough time for a quick roundup of the best updates and launches in April. It was recently revealed that Google was testing a new app for travelers, and now we have a better idea of what it might do.


Machine learning could become powerful tool in plastic surgery

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With an ever-increasing volume of electronic data being collected by the healthcare system, researchers are exploring the use of machine learning--a subfield of artificial intelligence--to improve medical care and patient outcomes. An overview of machine learning and some of the ways it could contribute to advancements in plastic surgery are presented in a special topic article in the May issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). "Machine learning has the potential to become a powerful tool in plastic surgery, allowing surgeons to harness complex clinical data to help guide key clinical decision-making," write Dr. Jonathan Kanevsky of McGill University, Montreal, and colleagues. They highlight some key areas in which machine learning and "Big Data" could contribute to progress in plastic and reconstructive surgery. Machine Learning Shows Promise in Plastic Surgery Research and Practice Machine learning analyzes historical data to develop algorithms capable of knowledge acquisition.


Human primacy is go-ing, go-ing, gone

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It is said of the ancient Chinese game go that the number of possible positions on its board exceeds the number of atoms in the known universe. This is old news, presumably, to masters of go and master mathematicians. To the rest of us it came as something of a shock when it became common knowledge in March, the occasion being the defeat -- shocking in itself -- of a world-ranking go master by a mere (so we would have said, once upon a time) computer. Or perhaps, giving it a positive spin, we should say "victory" instead of "defeat": a computer's victory over a mere human. What is the human brain to make of such facts?


Three ways artificial intelligence is helping us save nature

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When you think of artificial intelligence, the first image that likely comes to mind is one of sentient robots that walk, talk, and emote like humans. It's known as machine learning, and it revolves around enlisting computers in the task of sorting through the massive amounts of data that modern technology has allowed us to generate (a.k.a. One of the places machine learning is turning out to be the most beneficial is in the environmental sciences, which have generated huge amounts of information from monitoring Earth's various systems -- underground aquifers, the warming climate, or animal migration, for example. A slew of projects have been popping up in this relatively new field, called computational sustainability, that combine data gathered about the environment with a computer's ability to discover trends and make predictions about the future of our planet. This is useful to scientists and policy-makers because it can help them develop plans for how to live and survive in our changing world.


domain-b.com : Infosys launches artificial intelligence platform Mana'

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''Purposeful AI is about leveraging technology to amplify people. We can automate the repetitive, mechanisable tasks; we can capture the knowledge and know-how across people and long-lived systems and bring this knowledge back inside the systems to drive more value; and in doing these things we can free people to put all of our creativity, passion, and imagination into thinking about the bigger opportunities ahead of us,'' Vishal Sikka, CEO and managing director, Infosys, said.


Machine Learning and AI Coming Soon to Networking [Video]

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Machine learning and artificial intelligence have gained notoriety among the general public through applications such as Siri, Alexa or Google Now. But, beyond consumer applications, these new hot areas of innovation are bringing unbelievable benefits to the different components of IT infrastructure that enable it, said David Meyer, Chairman of the Board at OpenDaylight, a Collaborative Project at The Linux Foundation, in his presentation at the DevOps Networking Forum last month. This is most evident in compute technology, which grew more and more powerful to make machine learning and AI happen. It's less obvious how networking contributes to and benefits from AI, he said. "I've never seen a technology this powerful that's moving as fast or is as cool," Meyer said.


Artificial Intelligence On The Rise? Google, Movidius To Make AI More Accessible Through Software, USB Sticks

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently announced the company will be integrating a dose of artificial intelligence in their products, making information and knowledge available for everyone. Artificial intelligence (AI) is definitely on the rise as many innovators and entrepreneurs recently vowed to invest more time and money on AI-driven programs. In fact, Google and chip-maker Movidius are planning to make AI more accessible through their new innovations. In Google's annual letter published Thursday, 43-year-old CEO Sundar Pichai revealed its major plans for the future. According to CNET, Google will be integrating a dose of artificial intelligence and will make information and knowledge available for everyone.