With technology governing almost every aspect of our lives, industry experts are defining these modern times as the "platinum age of innovation"; verging on the threshold of discoveries that could change human society irreversibly, for better or worse. At the forefront of this revolution is the field of artificial intelligence (AI), a technology that is more vibrant than ever due to the acceleration of technological progress in machine learning - the process of giving computers with the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed - as well as the realisation by big tech vendors of its potential. One major tech behemoth fuelling the fire of this fast moving juggernaut called AI is Intel, a company that has long invested in the science and engineering of making computers more intelligent. The Californian company held an'AI Day' in San Francisco showcasing its new strategy dedicated solely to AI, with the introduction of new AI-specific products, as well as investments for the development of specific AI-related tech. And Alphr were in town to hear all about it.

DeepMind is the world leader in artificial intelligence research and its application for positive impact. We're on a scientific mission to push the boundaries of AI, developing programs that can learn to solve any complex problem without needing to be taught how. Over time, the insights gleaned from the industries currently taking advantage of AI and improving the technology along the way will make it ever more robust and useful within a growing range of applications. Organizations that can afford to invest heavily in AI. Systems that learn directly from their experience or from more data versus handcrafted heuristic systems so systems where they've been specifically pre-pragramd with a particular solution to a problem Many systems are is they're handcrafted & they're built for one particular purpose in mind what we're interested in mind the idea of generally one system hat out of the box are can do a wide range of tasks What we mean here is that we think that for a true thinking machine to be able to think about & achieve high & tasks they need to be grounded in the sensor motor reality they have to experience the world around them through their senses & ground the Knowledge that they acquire ground in the sensor imotor experience and appose to that logic base system or symbolic systems they are encoded and the problem with those systems is when they intract with the outside world with real events they find it very difficult to map the logic knowledge they have to these real- world messy situations that they find them self.

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Loads of devices can preserve moments on camera, but what if you could capture situations that were about to happen? It's not as far-fetched as you might think. MIT CSAIL researchers have crafted a deep learning algorithm that can create videos showing what it expects to happen in the future. After extensive training (2 million videos), the AI system generates footage by pitting two neural networks against each other. One creates the scene by determining which objects are moving in still frames. The other, meanwhile, serves as a quality check -- it determines whether videos are real or simulated, and the artificial video is a success when the checker AI is fooled into thinking the footage is genuine.

At Intel's recent AI Day, the chipmaker previewed a series of future products that it intends to use to unseat GPUs as the de facto standard for machine learning. The one-day event was Intel's most assertive pronouncement of its intentions to become a major player in the artificial intelligence market. Perhaps the most surprising element of the roadmap is the productization of the Nervana Engine, the machine learning chip that Nervana engineers were working on prior to Intel's acquisition of the company earlier this year. Given Intel's devotion to Xeon Phi, we at TOP500 News were more than a little skeptical that the company would ever commercialize the Nervana designs. But that is apparently the plan.

Continuing our series of deep learning updates, we pulled together some of the awesome resources that have emerged since our last post on October 17th. In case you missed it, here are our past updates: September part 2 & October part 1, September part 1, August part 2, August part 1, July part 2, July part 1, June, and the original set of 20 resources we outlined in April. As always, this list is not comprehensive, so let us know if there's something we should add, or if you're interested in discussing this area further. The 2016 NIPS Conference, the leading annual machine learning conference, is next week, December 5 to 10, in Barcelona. Let us know if you'll be there.

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