This Course 4,132 recent views Natural Creativity is about looking into the many theories behind creativity, examining studies, and exploring the latest machine learning techniques. You will experiment with artistic tools that are powered by the latest machine learning techniques and conduct a full iteration of design thinking research that can be applied in several different business scenarios. You'll focus on how the concept of creativity has evolved over time and how it has been investigated. Then, you will actively engage and collaborate with others in the class through discussion prompts and have an opportunity to reflectively write about a project that inspires your creativity. Throughout the course, you will step away from your computer, plan, and conduct one iteration of a design project applying the techniques and theories you just learned, enabling you to gain deep insights on how people are creative in your own local environment.

Prof. Jan Scholtes of the University of Maastricht and CSO at ZyLAB today presented a lecture at the Raad van State (the Dutch Council of State), entitled "Artificial Intelligence and Law". The lecture focuses on "Machine Learning" as the new search. The theme, also used in a series of four blogs, elaborates on the "Big Data and Data Science training" that Prof. Scholtes, together with Prof. van den Herik of the Leiden Center of Data Science (LDCS), provides to a group of 20 Dutch judges. In his lecture, Prof. Scholtes emphasizes the recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Especially compared to the first developments of AI almost 70 years ago, things are accelerating rapidly.

MIT announced today that it is massively doubling down on the future of computer science with the launch of a new college of computing. The university is committing $1 billion in resources to the new school, and the university received a $350 million donation from Stephen A. Schwarzman, who will be the naming donor. MIT said that its commitment is the largest of a university yet to the discipline. The university is already one of the leaders in computer science, with a famed department located in the School of Engineering. The new initiative will see computer science, artificial intelligence, and data science placed in the new school, complete with a new dean and around 50 new faculty positions according to the university.

On the windy afternoon of March 17, 2017, I opened my mailbox and saw a white envelope from the San Francisco Unified School District. The envelope contained a letter assigning my younger daughter to a middle school. This letter was a big deal; San Francisco's public schools range from excellent to among the worst in the state, and kids are assigned to them through a lottery. The last time we put her name into the lottery, for kindergarten, she was assigned to one of the lowest-performing schools in California. Then we got a break: A private school offered a big discount on tuition.

A new school for machine learning hopes to churn out Chinese tech talent--and surprisingly, it's being helped by some of North America's finest AI minds. Background: China plans to become the world leader in AI by 2030. That feat will only be accomplished with a lot more AI talent. The news: Wired reports that Kai-Fu Lee, the former chief of Google's operations in China who now runs an investment firm focused on AI, just launched a school to train more Chinese AI talent. It could add close to a thousand new AI graduates every year, right from the start.

We detail how cybersecurity startups are using AI to take a new approach to counter some of the most significant cyber threats. Cybersecurity companies saw a record number of funding deals last year and on a quarterly basis Q1'17 was the most active quarter for deals to private cybersecurity companies over the last five years. Alongside overall rising investment activity, a number of cybersecurity companies are emerging to offer up novel solutions to age-old cyber threats by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). According to CB Insights' AI Deals Tracker, cybersecurity is the fourth most active industry for deals to companies applying AI. But how exactly does AI put these cybersecurity companies in a unique position within this rapidly evolving industry?

Cybersecurity companies saw a record number of funding deals last year and on a quarterly basis Q1'17 was the most active quarter for deals to private cybersecurity companies over the last five years. Alongside overall rising investment activity, a number of cybersecurity companies are emerging to offer up novel solutions to age-old cyber threats by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI). According to CB Insights' AI Deals Tracker, cybersecurity is the fourth most active industry for deals to companies applying AI. But how exactly does AI put these cybersecurity companies in a unique position within this rapidly evolving industry? We also include notable cybersecurity startups using AI to address each threat.

IoT & Endpoints: IoT devices and other endpoints, including smartphones, tablets, and laptops within enterprise networks, pose a specific threat to individuals and organizations. Today's connected devices lack supporting infrastructure for robust security protocols. Old-school approaches to defending these devices include pushing security updates from the cloud to the device, but with the dynamic nature of malware today, connected devices do not have enough memory or computing power to effectively store protocols to deal with the multitude of threats that come their way. Instead, the new-school approach involves utilizing machine learning algorithms that can monitor network device traffic to model a baseline of "normal" device behavior, and subsequently flag when the normal behavior of an IoT ecosystem is compromised. Startups addressing the threats facing IoT and endpoints include: Fortscale Security, Tanium, and CUJO.

A school in London is set to become the first in Britain to welcome a robot teacher when it opens in September. The humanoid robot, known as Pepper, will be used in classrooms at the London Design and Engineering University Technical College, to help teach pupils about cutting-edge robotics. It will be the first instance of an educational robot being used in a UK classroom. Claims made by an expert in artificial intelligence predict that in less than five years, office jobs will disappear completely to the point where machines will replace humans. The idea that robots will one day be able to do all low-skilled jobs is not new, but Andrew Anderson from UK artificial intelligence company, Celaton, said the pace of advance is much faster than originally thought.