Artificial Intelligence

High-profile physicists and philosophers gathered to debate whether we are
real or virtual — and what it means either way.

A conversation between God and the Devil on the topic of Artificial
Intelligence.

The AI system is able to learn to play one Atari game and then use its
knowledge to learn another.

In social situations, two AIs will also work together if the outcome
benefits them both … otherwise … uh-oh!

Google’s AlphaGo artificial neural network made headlines last year when it
bested a world champion at Go. After marvelling at this feat, Giuseppe
Carleo of ETH Zurich in Switzerland thought it might be possible to build a
similar machine-learning tool to crack one of the knottiest problems in
quantum physics.

Yann LeCun gives an overview of AI and outlines a path toward more general
and complete AI at the January 2017 Asilomar conference organized by the
Future of Life Institute.

The rise of driverless cars and trucks is just a start. New AI techniques
are poised to reinvent everything from manufacturing to healthcare to Wall
Street. In other words, it’s not just blue-collar jobs that AI endangers.

Elon Musk stated that updates regarding his neural lace, which is meant to
augment the human mind, are coming next month. In October, Bryan Johnson
announced a $100 million investment to put computers in our brains. And so,
a race is on to hack human intelligence.

Apple Inc. is set to join the Partnership on AI, an artificial intelligence
research group that includes Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Google,
Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp.

Google intends to make a range of smart tools available this year. Google’s
range of AI and machine learning technology could enable makers to build
even more powerful projects. To make this happen, Google needs help from
the maker community. Raspberry Pi fans are the best makers around, and it’s
their ideas that will give the tech company direction.