Artificial intelligence is coming to Aylesbury Vale... and being used by our council. AVDC say they're going to be using things like Amazon's new Echo system to help deliver services better. "So the idea with this is that people can talk to a device and actually engage directly with the council, rather than having to come in, ring us or do anything else. "So it's about using the clever things that are out there today to make things better." You won't be able to do this straight away, this is all part of a long-term plan. The five year plan called'Connected Knowledge', focuses on ensuring customers continue to have the best possible experience, by providing a digital programme that's more efficient, flexible and better value for money. AVDC was one of the first councils to adopt a cloud IT strategy, saving around £6 million. Connected Knowledge sees its digital systems evolve further, working towards fully integrated and connected transactions for customers. And through the use of Amazon Echo technology, developed with Arcus Global (AVDC's development partner), AVDC will become the first council in the UK to use AI (artificial intelligence) and AI powered voice control, to serve residents' needs. "Arcus Global is delighted to be collaborating with AVDC on the very first Amazon Echo integration with a local authority platform.

Building on its promise to give the entrenched a run for their money, conversational AI startup Ozlo is making its meticulously crafted knowledge layer available for purchase today. Ozlo's new suite of APIs that includes tools for both expressing knowledge and understanding language will help to democratize the creation of conversational AI assistants. In the spirit of the expert systems of the 1980's, knowledge graphs are about leveraging massive fact databases to build intelligent AI tools. The problem is that intelligence isn't just a matter of knowing facts. Though no truly intelligent AI has emerged from well organized information, Google, Microsoft and others have made use of the knowledge graph to reduce the barriers to getting desired information -- think of the search widgets that tell you Barack Obama's age so you don't have to click on Wikipedia.

Prisma is a wildly popular iOS and Android app that uses a mix of neural networks, artificial intelligence and cloud-based machine learning to apply a range of filter effects to photos and videos. The resulting images mimic styles of artists such as Munch or Picasso. However, even though Prisma effects tend to be located at the more interesting end of the filter spectrum, there is a chance you won't quite find what you are looking for when planning to enhance your images or videos. Thankfully, Prisma is now expanding the number of filters on offer by adding a filter-store to the Android and iOS versions of its app. This addition allows you to download new filters and remove existing ones from your app, creating your personal filter collection.

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From to'malware on steroids' to hacks that cause driverless cars to make dangerous decisions on the road, artificial intelligence could soon threaten humanity in ways that once existed only in science fiction. Experts have gathered to discuss the possible nightmare scenarios that could stem from the rise of AI in the near future. The workshop focused on worst-case situations that fall within the realm of possibility, based on current technologies or those that could emerge in the next five to 25 years – including rogue cyber-weapons and stock market manipulation. From to'malware on steroids' to hacks that cause driverless cars to recklessly break the rules of the road, artificial intelligence could soon threaten humanity in ways that once existed only in science fiction. In a new article for Wired, researchers at Cambridge University's Study of Existential Risk (CESR) have come up with a list of 10 threats that may some day trigger an apocalypse.

Scientists have begun actively preparing for the end of the world. A group of experts met in the Arizona desert to discuss potential nightmare scenarios that could take place in the future and how humanity might handle them, Bloomberg reported Thursday. Funded by Tesla co-founder Elon Musk and Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn, the meeting was comprised of 40 scientists, policy analysts and cyber security experts. The group was tasked with coming up with increasingly likely "doomsday scenarios." "There is huge potential for AI (artificial intelligence) to transform so many aspects of our society in so many ways. At the same time, there are rough edges and potential downsides, like any technology," Eric Horvitz, an artificial intelligence scientist and the co-organizer of the meeting, told Bloomberg.

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This white paper was prepared by the participants of the fall 2016 long program Understanding Many-Particle Systems with Machine Learning. Interactions between many constituent particles, i.e. quarks, electrons, atoms, molecules, or materials, generally give rise to collective or emergent phenomena in matter. Even when the interactions between the particles are well defined and the governing equations of the system are understood, the collective behavior of the system as a whole does not trivially emerge from these equations. Despite many decades of prominent work on interacting many-particle (MP) systems, the problem of N interacting particles is not exactly soluble. In fact, computational complexity typically increases exponentially with N.

The adoption and application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) continues to accelerate at an exponential rate in modern businesses. As referenced in the 2017 Tech Trend Report, AI is nearing completion of the next layer in technological advancement, integrated into everything individuals and organizations do. This trajectory is predicted to drive cumulative worldwide spending of $40.6 billion on AI projects by 2024 – according to Raconteur. This is expected to create mass opportunity for the pioneering businesses currently investing in AI development. Moving beyond the hype in existing media coverage, this post will uncover the reality behind what AI means for businesses today, in the near future, and beyond 2017.

Scientists at the University of Alberta are cracking away at the complexities of artificial intelligence with their new "DeepStack" system, which can not only play a round of poker with you, but walk away with all of your money. This new technology builds upon the legacy of systems like IBM's Deep Blue, which was the first program to beat a world champion, Gary Kasparov, at chess in 1996. As Michael Bowling, co-author of the research and leader of the Computer Poker Research Group at Alberta, puts it: poker is the next big step for designing AI. In a game of Heads Up No Limit poker, DeepStack was able to win against professional poker players at a rate of 49 big blinds per 100. "We are winning by 49 per 100, that's like saying whatever the players were doing was not that much more effective than if they just folded every hand," Bowling tells Inverse.