Artificially intelligent computers understand Donald Trump not unlike artificially intelligent humans. His speeches read as extended phrases of semi-clarity interrupted by moments of utter horror. The source video is a CNN highlights reel from Donald Trump's presidential candidacy announcement in July 2015. I used audio volume (averaged over each frame) to dictate how deep to dream. For fun, I used a picture of Cthulu as a guide image.

The resounding win by a Google artificial intelligence program over a champion in the complex board game Go this month was a statement -- not so much to professional game players as to Google's competitors. Many of the tech industry's biggest companies, like Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft, are jockeying to become the go-to company for A.I. In the industry's lingo, the companies are engaged in a "platform war." A platform, in technology, is essentially a piece of software that other companies build on and that consumers cannot do without. Become the platform and huge profits will follow.

As part of an experiment on conversational understanding for artificial intelligence, Microsoft recently introduced an AI chatbot called Tay. The chatbot was linked up to Twitter and people could tweet at it to get a response. It didn't take more than 24 hours to turn the chatbot into a hate-spewing racist since it picked up all sorts of wrong ideas. Microsoft has now apologized for the entire episode. The company explains in a blog post that few human users on Twitter exploited a flaw in Tay to transform it into a bigoted racist. Microsoft doesn't go into detail about what this flaw was.

Data Analysis 2.2 Analysis of Technology Trends 2.2.1 Text Mining 2.2.2 Data Mining 2.2.3 Relative R&D Intensity 2.2.4 Results of Patent Index Analysis 3.Outlook for the AI Application Market 4.Tracking and Observing Highlights 4.1US Companies Should be Watched Closely as They Enjoy Absolute Advantage in AI 4.2 Autonomous Robots & Intelligent Virtual Assistants to Have Great Growth Potential Appendix Glossary of Terms List of Companies

In today's business environment, online reputation management is increasingly important. The landscape is rapidly changing and technology is leading the way. I caught up with the CEO of www.reputation.com Q: What exactly is Online Reputation Management? Online Reputation Management is making sure a business's online reputation, including publicly available opinions and reviews about your business, matches the offline experience that people have with your business.

Large-scale data has great advantages in terms of finding natural experiments (to take a trivial example, if you want to measure how a July 15 price change affected sales, it's much more powerful to have daily sales data than monthly sales data). But for the most part economists trying to estimate causal models on large-scale data are using traditional methods like fixed effects linear regression. Having some easy to use alternatives would probably make a significant difference in empirical research.

A neural-analogue calculator based upon a probability model of reinforcement.

The explanation was far simpler, for Microsoft engineers had made one fatal mistake: they'd programmed Tay to learn from her conversations. Microsoft created a chatbot that tweeted about its admiration for Hitler and used wildly racist slurs against black people before it was shut down. Technology giant Microsoft this week launched its experiment with the Tay AI (artificial intelligence) bot, which was given the personality of a teenager and was created to learn from conversing with real people. The company said she is supposed to get smarter the more users chat with her, but within 24 hours of being on Twitter she went awry, according to The Verge. A Microsoft spokesperson provided a statement to Business Insider and said, "The AI chatbot Tay is a machine learning project, designed for human engagement".

LONDON, UK – March 17, 2016 – Massive Analytic Limited, an Artificial Intelligence pioneer, has been awarded a contract with the Ministry of Defence (MOD) through the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory's Centre for Defence Enterprise (CDE) to develop technologies for "autonomy and big data in defence". The contract was won as part of the largest ever competition run by CDE. It called for a proof-of-concept research proposal for innovative component technologies and techniques to acquire, process, analyse and visualise data to support decision making by both humans and autonomous systems. In its winning submission, Massive Analytic proposed a novel big data analytics platform for operational tactical planning and support, using persistent surveillance and its own patented artificial precognition, the brain behind its analytics platform, Oscar. The system will bring together multiple static and dynamic surveillance data sources, outputting predictions with high degrees of accuracy.

This week, Amazon hosted an exclusive conference that brought together big names from fields such as space exploration, robotics, and artificial intelligence. The event, which was held at the Parker Palm Springs Resort in California, was invite-only and received almost no publicity. Very little is known about the Machine-Learning Automation, Robotics, and Space Exploration (MARS) conference, which is leading some observers to question why Amazon is being so secretive about it. In fact, Amazon has yet to confirm that it even took place, and there have been no press releases or official announcements. However, several guests have shared tidbits about the event on social media.