Congratulations are in order for the folks at Google Deepmind who have mastered Go. However, some of the discussion around this seems like giddy overstatement. Wired says Machines have conquered the last games and Slashdot says We know now that we don't need any big new breakthroughs to get to true AI. The truth is nowhere close. For Go itself, it's been well-known for a decade that Monte Carlo tree search (i.e.

The IoT already produces massive amounts of data. It's time to start dealing with it. Is Fog and Edge Computing inevitable? What happens when the cloud isn't enough? This is a modern problem if there ever was one.

Your son is hanging out with friends behind the VR theatre when someone pulls a knife: they're being robbed. He hits a panic button on his phone, and a nearby drone is instantly dispatched. Less than 30 seconds later it's in the alley, sirens wailing and lights flashing, recording everything to be transmitted to the police. The technology for that scenario exists today. Add a dash of image recognition, or take it another step and put a taser (or a miniaturized version of the heat ray) on the device, and you have the automation of emergency response services.

Bit by bit, artificial intelligence is coming to marketing software, so that marketers can focus less on clicking through setups and more on making broad strategic decisions. Today at our MarTech conference, 2015-founded startup YesPath is announcing its first product, the AI-powered ABM (Account-Based Marketing) platform. It is designed to automate segmentation for the targeting of accounts and people within those accounts, initially through website content and eventually through other channels, like email or ads. CEO and co-founder Jason Garoutte told me that he and co-founder Brian Zotter were frustrated during their time as Salesforce VP of Product Marketing and VP of Engineering, respectively, because the sales department complained they needed a more targeted approach for each lead. Garoutte said sales told him, "The most important thing is to develop a relationship with influencers" at the targeted accounts.

With flashy AI technology like IBM's Watson and Google's driverless cars stealing headlines and outperforming their human competitors, it's clear that our economy is bracing for a fundamental shift in how we perform work. What's less obvious, however, is exactly what the workplace of the future will look like. A pair of Oxford researchers recently estimated that 47 percent of the total U.S. employment is at risk of being eliminated. On the other end of the spectrum, Mercedes announced it is trading out some of its production robots for human labor -- the machines could not keep up with the increasing options for customization. While these two camps continue to argue, in this article we'll explore three robotic trends that the prevailing media have missed in their coverage of the future of jobs -- trends that will hold true if we continue this automation trajectory.

As the velocity of the rate of change in today's technology steadily continues to increase, one of the contributing factors behind this acceleration the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). "Smart" attributes and functionalities are being baked into a multitude of systems that are affecting our lives in many visible and, at other times, transparent ways. Just to name one well-known example of an AI-enabled app is Siri, the voice recognition system in the iPhone. Two recent Subway Fold posts have also examined AI's applications in law (1) and music (2). However, notwithstanding all of the technological, social and commercial benefits produced by AI, a widespread reluctance, if not fear, of its capabilities to produce negative effects still persists.

Artificial intelligence has always been an interesting subject to discuss especially among fiction writers. Thousands of artificial intelligence applications have been used for years in almost every industry: scientific discovery, medical diagnosis, robot control, stock trading, remote sensing, and even toys. Stephen Hawking says that the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race. But, a lot of scientist don't agree with him. They say artificial intelligence could damage society if and only it built or used incorrectly.

This spanning of scope reflects the genius of Peirce's insight wherein semiosis can begin literally at the cusp of Nothingness [20] and then proceed to capture the process of signmaking, language, logic, the scientific method and thought abstraction to embrace the broadest and most complex of topics. This process is itself mediated by truth-testing and community use and consensus, with constant refinement as new insights and knowledge arise.

Scientists have made a self-guided robot that is able to avoid obstacles and recognize objects, stating what it encounters.

Minecraft has become a worldwide phenomenon in recent years, and its blocky universe be used to hone the next generation of artificial intelligence? Computer scientists at Microsoft Research think so, and have been using the game's universe to train an AI'agent' to learn how to do things, such as climb a mountain, using the same types of resources a human has when they learn a new task. Much to Stephen Hawking's chagrin, AI has come on leaps and bounds in recent years, and computers can now understand speech and translate it, as well as being able recognise images and write captions about them. But computers still aren't very good at what researchers call general intelligence, which is more similar to the nuanced and complex way humans learn and make decisions. This is where AIX, a platform developed by Katja Hofmann and her colleagues in Microsoft's Cambridge lab, comes in. The system is a mod for the Java version of Minecraft and code that helps artificial intelligence agents sense and act within the game environment.