Artificial intelligence programs built by Alibaba and Microsoft have beaten humans on a Stanford University reading comprehension test. “This is the first time that a machine has outperformed humans on such a test,” Alibaba said in a statement Monday. The test was devised by artificial intelligence experts at Stanford to measure computers’ growing reading abilities. Alibaba’s software was the […]
By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Years ago, I did some computer consulting work for a chemical company. It’s quite a curious story and one that went into the record books as a consulting engagement. The way it began was certainly an eye opener. An executive at a company that I had been doing […]
In 1943, at the height of World War II, the U.S. military hired an audacious psychologist named B.F. Skinner to develop pigeon-guided missiles. These were the early days of munitions guidance technology, and the Allies were apparently quite desperate to find more reliable ways to get missiles to hit their targets. It went like this: […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider When my son was very young, he and I played a board game that he seemed specially to enjoy. It required concentration and dexterity, and a bit of imagination along with a dose of excitement. If you made a mistake during the game, there would be a […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider The fish in the aquarium tank were going round and round the inner edges of the glass surface that encased them in water. Humans watching the fish were likely wondering whether or not the fish knew they were in water. There is an ongoing philosophical debate about […]
ALMOST HALF OF Americans will hop in their cars for a Thanksgiving trip this year. But if you were being very precise—if you were a team of Massachusetts of Technology researchers who study human-machine interactions—you wouldn’t say that all those Americans are “driving,” exactly. The new driver assistance systems on the market—like Tesla’s’s Autopilot, Volvo’s’s Pilot Assist, and Jaguar […]
By Dr. Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider There was a dog on the freeway the other day. I’ve seen a lot of items scattered on the freeways during my daily commute, including lawn chairs, ladders, pumpkins (a truck carrying Halloween pumpkins had gotten into an accident and spilled its load of pumpkin patch pumpkins), […]
When we take a look at any physical and tangible product, we think of the materials used to make that product. In our minds, the material is a raw product that has been shaped and treated to meet the specific need of the product. All that will change in the future as MIT introduces programmable […]
When Timnit Gebru was a student at Stanford University’s prestigious Artificial Intelligence Lab, she ran a project that used Google Street View images of cars to determine the demographic makeup of towns and cities across the U.S. While the AI algorithms did a credible job of predicting income levels and political leanings in a given area, Gebru says her work was susceptible […]
Advances in artificial intelligence pose a myriad of ethical questions, but the most incisive thinking on this subject says more about humans than it does about machines, says Paula Boddington, Oxford academic and author of Towards a Code of Ethics for Artificial Intelligence. What do you mean by ethics for artificial intelligence? Well, that’s a good starting point because […]
