Apple, Microsoft, and Google vie for control of artificial intelligence market

Technology firms are waging war over the lucrative artificial intelligence market.

Some of the technology industry’s biggest companies are waging a war over the way you interact with digital devices.

According to Reuters, Apple AAPL 0.96% is planning to hire at least 86 full-time artificial intelligence experts. The move is part of a broader effort among the technology industry’s elite to one-up each other by giving users what they want before they even know they need it.

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China’s Baidu searches for AI edge

Andrew Ng is hunched over his smartphone, in a pantomime of key-pecking, squinting, typo-ridden discomfort. “This is how we do it today,” he says.

“And this is how we should be doing it,” says the chief scientist for Baidu, China’s largest search engine. He sits back in his chair, speaking to no one in particular with his phone placed on the table. The one-finger typing agony of millions of smartphone users should one day become a thing of the past, he says. All it would take is the creation of a reasonably accurate, pocket-sized electronic version of a human brain.

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Facebook Artificial Intelligence Assistant “M” Is Ready To Welcome You

Facebook Artificial Intelligence Assistant “M” Is Ready To Welcome You : From the time of its launch in 2004 Facebook has evolved a lot. It has now become one of the very basic need for many people. Its has also somehow become identity of many people. Facebook has also gained a huge trust from people as well as other companies and websites on the internet. This is evident from the fact that almost every online website or service now accepts your Facebook account as your identity. This thing was previously limited to your email id and phone number only. Thus, it would be appropriate to say that Facebook has become a very important part of our lives.

Facebook Artificial Intelligence Assistant “M”

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The rise of AI-driven personalized learning raises new questions for educators

There was a moment in popular culture when the vision for a the future included a teacher who looked a lot less human. In the 1960s cartoon “The Jetsons,” children attend classes taught by a purple and blue humanoid computer program, Ms. Brainmocker. That idea has resurfaced several times in the decades since — often as a monster-in-the-closet for teachers, but occasionally as an aide.

In some ways, it seems Ms. Brainmocker’s moment may be on the verge of arriving. Last week, Knewton announced the creation of an artificial intelligence program that automatically delivers content to students based on how they learn. Similar programs have begun to spring up, offering ways to automate at least some of the practices of a teacher. But as the market grows, the focus seems to be less on all-out replacements like Ms. Brainmocker and more on the blackboard, the books, and the homework she assigns. In short, many of the so-called “smart” technologies are intended to aid, not replace, teachers (at least in the U.S.). But making sure they do will require examining exactly how they fit into schools.

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Apple TV highlights how far AI has come — and how far it has to go

Voice recognition is great, but Siri isn’t making movies … yet?

If you watched, read or even heard about Apple’s big event on Wednesday, chances are you noticed that the upcoming Apple TV upgrade sounds impressive. One of its big draws is that users can search for shows and control the experience using their voice rather than relying on a remote control. This new Siri-powered voice search capability is a feature that demonstrates just how far artificial intelligence technology has come, as well as how far it has to go before it rivals the full power of the human mind.

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About an AI that turns stories into interactive games

Can you still remember the days when choose-your-own adventure books were a thing? You could not only immerse yourself into the story but you were also able to craft your own way through the fantastic fictional saga. For me, the sense of freedom and immersion that these books offered could seldom be matched by the standard method of linear storytelling.

These books are pretty much non-existent these days but, thanks to some serious scientific prowess, we might seem them return with newfound glory.

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Will Artificial Intelligence surpass our own?

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We are in the midst of a revolution in machine intelligence, the art and engineering practices that let computers perform tasks that, until recently, could be done only by people.
There is now software that identifies faces at border crossings and matches them against passports or that labels people and objects in photographs posted to social media. Algorithms can teach them to play Atari video games. A camera and chip embedded in top-of-the-line sedans let the vehicles drive autonomously on the open road.

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Intelligent machines: Making AI work in the real world

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Image captionEric Schmidt believes that we are at the cusp of a new age of AI

As part of the BBC’s Intelligent Machines season, Google’s Eric Schmidt has penned an exclusive article on how he sees artificial intelligence developing, why it is experiencing such a renaissance and where it will go next.

Until recently, AI seemed firmly stuck in the realm of science fiction. The term “artificial intelligence” was coined 60 years ago – on August 31 1955, John McCarthy proposed a “summer research project” to work out how to create thinking machines.

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Dell Inc Announces $125B Investment In China, Including Artificial Intelligence Lab

Dell CEO Michael Dell announced Thursday that his company will be investing $125 billion in China over the next five years.

Computer manufacturer Dell Inc. will invest $125 billion in China over the next five years, as part of a new strategy to expand in the world’s second-largest economy. The company’s CEO, Michael Dell, said in a statement Thursday that the investment would contribute $175 billion to imports and exports and help sustain one million jobs in the country.

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