Articles about AI
With the flood of news on self-driving cars, drones, caring robots, and more, it isn’t always easy to keep up-to-date with the latest in the artificial intelligence universe. For the insiders’ view on what’s happening in AI, follow these 10 researchers, professors, institutions, and other great thinkers who offer human insight into the world of machines.
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Niven R Narain
AI Drug Developer
WIRED 2015 is our annual two-day celebration of the innovators, inventors, artists and entrepreneurs who are reinventing our world. For more from the event, head over to our WIRED 2015 hub.
Creating new drugs is expensive. On average, it takes $2.6bn (£1.7bn) and between ten and 15 years to get a drug from planning to pharmacist, according to some estimates. And that’s because current methods are so untargeted — for every 100 drugs that reach first stage clinical trials, only one goes on to become an actual treatment.
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Ben Goertzel talks to Sarah Lazarus about thinking machines and living forever
WHIZ KID As a child I read voraciously, including adult-level science and history books – anything I could get my hands on. I was really bored in high school because I’d already learned most of the curriculum, so I applied to Bard College at Simon’s Rock, in Massachusetts, in the United States, which admitted younger students, and started my degree in mathematics when I was 15.
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Cognitive Computing increasingly will be put to work in practical, real-world applications. The industries that are adopting it are not all operating at the same maturity levels; there remain some challenges to conquer. The wheels are very much in motion to make cognitive-driven Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications a key piece of enterprise toolsets.
The journey to foster the adoption of Cognitive Computing for business applications was a focus of the panel discussion, Cognitive Computing 201 – Incorporating the Technology, held at the recent DATAVERSITY® Smart Data 2015 Conference in San Jose. Reflecting the progress in the AI area to date, Tech Pro Research recently published the results of a survey it conducted in July that revealed that 63% of respondents believe AI will be good for their businesses. That said, only 17% are actively using the technology now, and 49% have no plans for any use of AI at this point.
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Artificial intelligence has a checkered past. It has gone through multiple waves of huge expectations followed by incredible disappointments. We have seen the rise and fall of expert systems, neural networks, logic (hard and fuzzy) and the use of statistical models for determining reasoning.
We seem to be, once again, in an era of heightened expectations regarding A.I. We now have Siri, IBM Watson, self-driving cars and the proliferation of machine learning, data mining and predictive systems that promise an unprecedented, even frightening, level of machine intelligence.
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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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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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This post is part of a blog series with Young Scientists ahead of the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2015, which takes place in Dalian, China, from 9-11 September. In this blog, Carnegie Mellon University’s Louis-Philippe Morency talks about his research into how artificial intelligence can help us recognize mental health conditions such as depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
How’s life at the intersection of artificial intelligence and healthcare?
It’s very exciting right now. The area I’m most interested in is how we can use computer science to help clinicians and healthcare providers recognize mental health conditions such as depression, anxiety or post-traumatic stress disorder through the non-verbal communication of the patient. We call this multimodal machine learning.
This seems like a long term goal: how close are we?
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Earlier this year, there were reports on advances in artificial intelligence. Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and others voiced their concerns about computers overtaking humans, and it could start in the workplace, CBS News’ Anthony Mason reports.
“Eventually I think most jobs will be replaced, like 75 percent, 80 percent of people are probably not going to work for a living,” New York University’s Gary Marcus told Mason earlier this year.
Since that conversation, the jobs issue has attracted more attention. Recently, two books from technology experts in Silicon Valley foretell a potentially jobless future.
Jerry Kaplan is author of the just-released “Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.”
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