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The usually secretive Apple recently signaled that it would begin publishing artificial intelligence research, and now it appears that the first example of this has appeared online. The newly published research paper (via Forbes) is titled "Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training" and credits Ashish Shrivastava, Tomas Pfister, Oncel Tuzel, Josh Susskind, Wenda Wang, Russ Webb and Apple Inc. as its authors. The paper shows a publication date of December 22 although it was submitted for publication on November 15. That's just a few weeks before news reports that Apple was allowing its AI research team to publish their work for the research community. Because the AI research community generally makes its findings available through credited publication, the move is expected to help Apple recruit top-notch researchers without asking them to break community tradition.

One of the most commonly used methods of measuring human intelligence is the IQ test. However, this approach has received widespread criticism due to its perceived inability to capture the whole gamut of elements that determines human intelligence. Howard Gardner, proposed the theory of multiple intelligences in 1983. According to him, IQ tests have little relevance in reality. He denies there is general intelligence, and his theory instead suggests the presence of separate domains of ability.

LEMMiNO explains some of the potential positive and negative outcomes of humans developing advanced artificial intelligence. Although artificial intelligence is currently being used in a variety of ways, people like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have warned about the unchecked advancement of super-intelligent computers.

It can read lips and create new food recipes. It can win at chess, Jeopardy and the game Go. Every major technology company appears to be integrating it into how they organize and operate their business. And it seems like just about every new app in existence claims its software uses some sort of machine learning to make life even better. Artificial intelligence is splashed across headlines like never before.

From my experience, we are still at the premises of AI in marketing. Here are some areas of marketing where I believe AI is beginning to make interesting inroads. Copy writing is one area with a company like Persado as one example raising an interesting round ($38M if I remember correctly) to deliver AI-written content that is trained on actual engagement from the big data graph. The idea is to remove the guesswork, think manual copy testing, and embed actual results into your first draft. This apply to both B2B and B2C growth marketing.

Early on an unusually blustery day in June, Kevin Esvelt climbed aboard a ferry at Woods Hole, bound for Nantucket Island. Esvelt, an assistant professor of biological engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was on his way to present to local health officials a plan for ridding the island of one of its most persistent problems: Lyme disease. He had been up for much of the night working on his slides, and the fatigue showed. He had misaligned the buttons on his gray pin-striped shirt, and the rings around his deep-blue eyes made him look like a sandy-haired raccoon. Esvelt, who is thirty-four, directs the "sculpting evolution" group at M.I.T., where he and his colleagues are attempting to design molecular tools capable of fundamentally altering the natural world. If the residents of Nantucket agree, Esvelt intends to use those tools to rewrite the DNA of white-footed mice to make them immune to the bacteria that cause Lyme and other tick-borne diseases. He and his team would breed the mice in the laboratory and then, as an initial experiment, release them on an uninhabited island. If the number of infected ticks begins to plummet, he would seek permission to repeat the process on Nantucket and on nearby Martha's Vineyard. More than a quarter of Nantucket's residents have been infected with Lyme, which has become one of the most rapidly spreading diseases in the United States. The illness is often accompanied by a red bull's-eye rash, along with fever and chills. When the disease is caught early enough, it can be cured in most cases with a single course of antibiotics. For many people, though, pain and neurological symptoms can persist for years. In communities throughout the Northeast, the fear of ticks has changed the nature of summer itself--few parents these days would permit a child to run barefoot through the grass or wander blithely into the woods. "What if we could wave our hands and make this problem go away?" Esvelt asked the two dozen officials and members of the public who had assembled at the island's police station for his presentation. He explained that white-footed mice are the principal reservoir of Lyme disease, which they pass, through ticks, to humans.

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Since 2014, $6B USD has been raised by 900 startups globally in AI, making it one of the hottest technology themes. AI is forecasted to generate $47B USD in annual revenues and replace 5 million jobs globally by 2020. From entrepreneurs like Elon Musk to tech giants like Facebook and Google, enormous resources and focus is being directed towards pushing the boundaries of AI capabilities and applications. What role can AI play in shaping India's economy and innovation culture? With over 200 startups leading the way, there is a real opportunity for every entrepreneur to make a mark in this sunrise sector.

After three years of almost single-handedly juicing up the slow-growing economy, Janet L. Yellen and the Federal Reserve should be looking at easier days ahead. Yellen, in what will probably be her last full year as Fed chair, may finally get help from somewhere else in Washington. Tax cuts and infrastructure spending planned by President-elect Donald Trump, if backed by the Republican-controlled Congress, would lighten the load for a Fed whose easy-money policies have been the primary economic support for the nation. She is already breathing easier on the Fed's employment mandate; the jobless rate has fallen to a nine-year low of 4.6%. Inflation, too, is under control and, by all accounts, creeping toward the central bank's optimal level of 2%.