AI Researcher, Cognitive Technologist Inventor - AI Thinking, Think Chain Innovator - AIOT, XAI, Autonomous Cars, IIOT Founder Fisheyebox Spatial Computing Savant, Transformative Leader, Industry X.0 Practitioner Hyper-Intelligence refers to higher, super-intelligent abilities to accomplish complex tasks. For instance, hyper-intelligent humans are individuals gifted with extraordinary intellectual aptitudes and are capable of solving the world's most challenging problems. Hyper-Intelligence is an inter-disciplinary field that studies hyper-connections, hyper-compositions, hyper-collaborations, and hyper-cognition of intelligent entities in various forms and functions that can be physical or digital, local or remote. Currently, hyper-intelligent systems are rapidly emerging and cover a multitude of application domains such as artificially intelligent chess engines, self-driving vehicles, autonomous weapons, automated drug discoveries, smart cities, etc. Hyper-intelligent systems will usher in a new age of cyber-physical-social-human interactions, revolutionizing and reshaping the world as we know it. The research, development, and deployment of hyper-intelligence are facing great challenges, and include the following topics: Hyper-intelligent system classifications, representations and models: Hyper-intelligent system theory, methodology and design; Hyper-intelligent system frameworks, middleware, architectures and standards; Hyper-connections of multi or massive intelligent entities; Hyper-compositions of heterogeneous intelligent entities; Hyper-collaborations of different intelligent entities; Hyper-cognition for stronger or super intelligence; Hyper-intelligence with hybrid machine, human, crowd and cyber; Hyper-intelligence with emotion, culture and personality; Hyper-intelligent sensing, processing, monitoring and controlling; Hyper-intelligent system security, privacy and trust; Hyper-intelligent system safety and controllability; Hyper-intelligent system impact to humans, society, ethics and law; Hyper-intelligent system applications; Hyper-intelligent technologies related to artificial intelligence, big data, internet-of-things, cloud computing, edge computing, quantum computing, blockchain, and emerging scenarios.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been bandied around for the last few decades or so and, I'm sure, most of us are still wondering: What exactly is this? So, will we be faced with an army of Terminator-like humanoids who will reign terror across the world? Will we witness "I, Robot"-like humanoids attending to our homecare needs – you know, washing, ironing, cooking and the like? Nah, I already have a wife that's dutifully doing that. Okay, stop – I know I shouldn't go there – just one small footnote though: My wife, Sarah, isn't remotely domesticated, although she does cook once in a while!

Since the revolutionary invention of computers, scientists and engineers have been posing the question, " Can intelligence be artificially created? " These questions led to the birth of the field of Artificial Intelligence. Coined in 1956, AI has become one of the hottest technologies around. In this series we are going to dive deep into everything that this field has to offer and more. Intelligence is the by-product of accumulated knowledge, experience and the ability to infer reasoning from these acquired knowledge and finally apply these reasoning into action and adapt with the environment surrounding the intelligent entity.

Definitions of the term'Artificial Intelligence' tend to fit one of the following categories: While all of these options are similar in that they deal with'intelligent behavior' in computers, they are also quite different. The first refers to a research discipline, while the second and third describe what that research discipline seeks to create. The ways in which the term'AI' can be used depend on which of these definitions you consider valid. For instance, news articles often have titles to the effect of "Google's new AI learned X" or "A new AI can do Y," such as: But, such usage ("An AI Developed", "AI can now", etc.) is only valid with that third'intelligent entity' definition. If the first'field of research' definition is chosen instead, these titles would have to be rewritten as "Google's new AI algorithm learned X" or "A new AI system can do Y."

Let's face it, artificial intelligence (AI) is a confused subject with the industry currently exaggerating its role, purpose and capabilities. We are all still scratching our heads wondering if the world will have to endure a society of robots with their associated "robot rights" and, of course, there's the fear that they may render humanity pointless. I want to continue with my own personal journey through what I understand AI is and how we might indeed one day create an artificial intelligent entity, something which I hope we don't live to regret. Nevertheless, my rhetoric has been consistent regarding what, today, we understand AI is and, that is, it's nothing more than clever programming and smart technology. But, in my endeavour to possibly create such an artificial intelligent entity, I suggested we use Cartesian dualism (René Descartes and George Campbell) as some sort of template where we separate the mind and body.

So, this is my third column delving into what I believe is the over-hyped and often misunderstood subject of artificial intelligence (AI). Firstly, I'll briefly paraphrase what I mentioned in my previous posts and, that is, what we understand today as AI is nothing more than clever programming and smart technology. In my first post, I suggested that engineers have developed software and devised hardware to alleviate the mundaneness of routine activities, such as on the factory floor; created smart sensors to determine the best time to plant seeds and harvest and, of course, we have a number of sensors that can predict weather patterns; there are also engineers who have developed technology that can assess images of patients better than physicians when determining breast cancer, for example. As a former software engineer, I would similarly develop algorithms and functions that would seek patterns in data where, based on the data processed, I would define expected behaviors, outcomes and actions – this is not "intelligence" – it's just clever programming and smart technology. How do we create an intelligent entity?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been bandied around for the last few decades or so and, I'm sure, most of us are still wondering: What exactly is this? So, will we be faced with an army of Terminator-like humanoids who will reign terror across the world? Will we witness "I, Robot"-like humanoids attending to our homecare needs – you know, washing, ironing, cooking and the like? Nah, I already have a wife that's dutifully doing that. Okay, stop – I know I shouldn't go there – just one small footnote though: My wife, Sarah, isn't remotely domesticated, although she does cook once in a while!

A long time ago in an innovation ecosystem far, far away… a recent MIT graduate started his career in a vintage 1970's Massachusetts Route 128 Artificial Intelligence (AI) startup doing speech recognition, re-named Verbex after Exxon acquired the company. Fast forward to AI in 2019, and what stands out most to that grad (me) are two pleasant surprises. The first surprise is the degree to which highly competitive IT businesses have embraced open source AI. Google's TensorFlow has over 120,000 stars on GitHub, which the largest home of open source code communities, and Microsoft acquired GitHub in 2018. Facebook's PyTorch is also quite popular, especially in academic and industrial research communities, with over 25,000 stars on GitHub.

I have had it with the stream of articles about what an "AI" can do. It is possible to analyze key words, correlate them with other key words, do a massive amount of statistics, and find out some stuff. People cannot do that and computers can. It sure isn't anything people can do, and it also doesn't correspond to anything I understand about what it means to be intelligent. So, to make clear what AI is really about I propose the ten question test.

Our world has been revolutionized by Artificial Intelligence. A subject hotly glorified by popular sci-fi movies, AI has now penetrated various spheres of our life. It is widely used in applications such as aerospace, bio-informatics, business intelligence, financial advisory systems, emergency response, homeland security, logistics and supply chain. In recent years, we have witnessed a rebirth of AI through the use of cloud, with technology firms such as Google leading the way in showing the power of data-driven computing. Artificial intelligence systems are extensively used by researchers at technology firms, universities and government labs.