Latest AI Articles:

1 - Toyota Invests $1 Billion in Artificial Intelligence in U.S.

Toyota is joining the artificial intelligence race, with a recent announcement that has a five-year plan to invest $1 billion into a Silicon-valley based research and development center for machine intelligence. The entity will be organized as a new company called Toyota Research Institute. Gill Pratt, a former roboticist for DARPA, will lead the new company. The center will focus on artificial intelligence and robotics technologies, as well as technology that helps benefit the rapidly aging population. Research efforts will be honed in on developing cars that are safer and more enjoyable for humans to drive, rather than removing humans from the equation (i.e. self-driving cars). The company plans to hire 200 scientists for its new operations.

People talk with their bodies – studies show that non verbal cues account for at least half of all interpersonal communication. Some experts put that figure at 70% and even 90%. Facial expressions, posture, and physicality can deliver signs that either reinforce or undermine the verbal work going on.

Apple's recent acquisition of UK-based speech recognition company VocalIQ was done in as mysterious a manner as any of their other acquisitions, with no overt explanation from Apple, and no open reply from the acquired team.

Episode Summary: After receiving her PhD in Computer Science from the University of New York in 2002, Dr. Sheryl Brahnam's research interests steered her toward studying human abuse and misuse with computers, specifically conversational agents such as Siri, phone-based auto agent systems, and even chat support. Her research yields questions in relative new territory: Are AI prone to receiving misuse?; why do people misuse these agents in ways that they would not treat a human?; and, what types of regulations will we need as AI improves and becomes more intelligent?

 
 1 - Google Reveals Its New "RankBrain" Artificial Intelligence System

If you could fill your home with customizable, instantly change-able virtual decorations that looked completely real, would you ever buy physical home goods?

Episode Summary: Dr. Joscha Bach is a software developer and researcher, who is currently developing a cognitive AI framework at  MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. In this episode, he speaks about the troubles in projecting when strong AI may be developed, and sheds light on the trends taking us there, including deep and reinforcement learning.

1 - A Google researcher said that we’ll become ‘highly dependent’ on artificial intelligence in the near future

Ever since Star Wars depicted its heroes on holograms, the 3D images have been a staple to popular (albeit sci-fi) culture. Then in 2012 when rapper Tuac was resurrected as a hologram to perform at Coachella a wave of interest in holographic technology spread from sci-fi buffs to hip hop fans and beyond. This interest saw a sudden surge of hologram projects – even ones letting you create holograms with your smart phone.

Controlling your feelings, adding or removing memories at will, and controlling our devices telepathically... is this purely the world of science fiction? Evidently not: