By. Dr. Lance Eliot, AI Trends Insider Is it going to rain tomorrow? If you were to answer that question, would you say that it absolutely positively will rain tomorrow? Or, would you say that it absolutely positively won’t rain tomorrow? Here in Southern California, we only get about 15 days of rain during the […]
Artificial intelligence frontrunner Andrew Ng has raised $175 million for a new incubator devoted to machine learning startups. The fund, backed by NEA, Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners and SoftBank, won’t invest in outside startups, Ng said in a note this week. Rather, it will fund small strike teams of AI researchers working inside the fund, who will test […]
IN EARLY 2014, Srikanth Thirumalai met with Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. Thirumalai, a computer scientist who’d left IBM in 2005 to head Amazon’s recommendations team, had come to propose a sweeping new plan for incorporating the latest advances in artificial intelligence into his division. He arrived armed with a “six-pager.” Bezos had long ago decreed that […]
Google-parent Alphabet’s revenue rose 24 percent year-over-year, to $32.32 billion, exceeding expectations. Net revenue also beat expectations, at $25.9 billion. And because of recent tax legislation in the last quarter, the company faced a net loss of $3.02 billion. But to better illustrate those metrics and potential growth areas for the company, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and […]
Artificial Intelligence is real and it is here. But successfully putting AI into action isn’t exactly a walk in the park — it requires a fundamental rethinking of the business. The pressure is on — 53 percent of executives responding to a recent survey said their industry has “already experienced disruption” due to AI. An example […]
“We need to look to the past in the face of modern innovations in machine learning, robotics, artificial intelligence, big data, and beyond,” says the economist.
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The WIRED Guide to Artificial Intelligence
WIRED Tech companies’ heavy investments in AI are already changing our lives and gadgets, and laying the groundwork for a more AI-centric future. The current boom in all things AI was catalyzed by breakthroughs in an area known as machine learning. It … |
The following email was sent today to the MIT community by President L. Rafael Reif.
To the members of the MIT community,
This morning, MIT is launching a major new Institute-wide initiative on human and machine intelligence — the MIT Intelligence Qu…
New Institute-wide initiative will advance human and machine intelligence research.
Science DailyBA or DA? Decoding syllables to show the limits of artificial intelligenceScience DailyFor about the last ten years, researchers have been using artificial intelligence techniques called machine learning to decode human brain activity. App…
