Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

As AI evolves, the role of the computer scientist is changing. Sure, the
world still needs people who can code software. But increasingly, it also
needs people who can train neural networks, a very different skill that’s
more about coaxing a result from the data than building something on your
own. Companies like Google and Facebook are not only hiring a new kind of
talent, but also reeducating their existing employees for this new future –
a future where AI will come to define technology in the lives of just about
everyone.

Can machines really think? Here is a series of interviews with some of the
AI pioneers, Jerome Wiesner, Oliver Selfridge, and Claude Shannon. A view
of the future of computer intelligence from back then.

Bridgewater Associates has a team of engineers working on a project to
automate decision-making to save time and eliminate human emotional
volatility.

Move over Mariah Carey. There’s a new holiday star in town. Behold, a new
Christmas carol for the 2016 holiday season! AI writes a Christmas carol.
Listen to it here.

How Google used artificial intelligence to transform Google Translate, one
of its more popular services – and how machine learning is poised to
reinvent computing itself.