Jay van Zyl @ ecosystem.Ai

Online maths company has partnered with scientists to identify what makes
lessons successful – and to see if AI can be used to improve teaching.

Earlier this month, Apple made a splash when it told the artificial
intelligence research community that the secretive company would start
publishing AI papers of its own. Not even a month later, it’s already
starting to make good on that promise.

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.