Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing many aspects of how we work and live. (How many stories did you read last week about self-driving cars and job-stealing robots? Perhaps your holiday shopping involved some AI algorithms, as well.) But despite the constant flow of news, many misconceptions about AI remain.
AI doesn’t think in our sense of the word at all, Scriffignano explains. “In many ways, it’s not really intelligence. It’s regressive.”
IT leaders should make deliberate choices about what AI can and can’t do on its own. “You have to pay attention to giving AI autonomy intentionally and not by accident,”
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Startup Taps AI to Monitor Chips
ProteanTecs’ approach spans yield and test to fault detection
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334514
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AI Can Sort Batteries
https://www.designnews.com/electronics-test/ai-can-sort-batteries/91051847460523?ADTRK=UBM&elq_mid=8043&elq_cid=876648
A new machine-learning process can be used to predict lithium ion battery cycle life, based upon factors measured in just a few early charge and discharged cycles.
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McDonald’s Is Putting AI in Its Drive-Thrus
https://www.designnews.com/electronics-test/mcdonalds-putting-ai-its-drive-thrus/35639361260521?ADTRK=UBM&elq_mid=8043&elq_cid=876648
McDonald’s is using machine learning to make its drive-thru menus smarter. But it’s only the beginning of a trend of retailers embracing AI in brick-and-mortar locations.
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AI Learns to Write Rap Lyrics!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0EyfdQ0QTQ
o wow, this is the exact 2-year anniversary of my baroque-AI video!
Computer evolves to generate baroque music!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SacogDL_4JU
I put the word “evolve” in there because you guys like “evolution” videos, but this computer is actually learning with gradient descent!
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AI: Market Trader and Market Cop
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334518
A new report commissioned by the Alan Turing Institute details how AI is transforming the financial services industry, but warns that up-to-date regulation is needed to avoid misuse of the technology and mitigate the potential for unintended consequences.
Artificial intelligence in finance: New landscaping report from The Alan Turing Institute
https://www.turing.ac.uk/news/artificial-intelligence-finance-new-landscaping-report-alan-turing-institute
Tomi Engdahl says:
How IBM Watson Overpromised and Underdelivered on AI Health Care
https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagnostics/how-ibm-watson-overpromised-and-underdelivered-on-ai-health-care
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James Vincent / The Verge:
Critics say big tech companies are formulating AI ethics boards and principles as a strategy for avoiding the possibility of government regulation
The problem with AI ethics
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/3/18293410/ai-artificial-intelligence-ethics-boards-charters-problem-big-tech
Is Big Tech’s embrace of AI ethics boards actually helping anyone?
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Kelsey Piper / Vox:
Nearly half of Google’s external AI board has resigned or is under fire, and the design of the board suggests Google is treating AI ethics like a PR problem
Google’s brand-new AI ethics board is already falling apart
One member resigned and two more are under fire. It’s only a week old.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/3/18292526/google-ai-ethics-board-letter-acquisti-kay-coles-james
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AI’s Nemesis is Cloud Storage Economics
https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1334527
The biggest obstacle to the promise of technologies such as AI and machine learning isn’t the power of computers or the sophistication of algorithms, but rather the fundamental economics of cloud data storage.
What’s often lost in the telling of the story is that the delivery of electric power as a utility did much more than reduce costs, it spurred a flurry of innovation and new business models by allowing businesses to focus on what they were best at, their products and services.
Just as electricity powered the industrial revolution in the 20th century, data storage is powering today’s most valuable companies — companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
Even companies that make durable goods, like Tesla, could not exist without an enormous quantity of data. And just as electric power generation migrated to centralized power plants, the storage of data is moving from on-premises storage to large centralized-clouds.
Although the cloud has become a pervasive part of how we think about the modern enterprise, it’s still steeped in an industrial era model of scarcity, which prioritizes data based on the high cost to store it. As a result, half of all digital data today resides in offline or archived media where the cost to access it makes it as good as deleted.
Worse yet, in many applications, data is simply destroyed soon after it’s created due to high storage costs. For example, the vast majority of body cam footage is deleted in 60 to 180 days. That’s a fraction of the statute of limitations for most serious crimes.
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI: Market Trader and Market Cop
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334518
A new report commissioned by the Alan Turing Institute details how AI is transforming the financial services industry, but warns that up-to-date regulation is needed to avoid misuse of the technology and mitigate the potential for unintended consequences.
Authored by Seattle University’s Professor Bonnie Buchanan, the aim of the report is to promote responsible adoption of AI technology. The report reveals that AI is already widespread in many areas of the financial services sector. AI and machine learning (ML) are frequently used today in credit card fraud detection, bank customer service chatbots, and robo-advisors which provide financial advice to consumers.
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A Closer Look at the Samsung S10 5G’s AI Engine
https://www.designnews.com/electronics-test/closer-look-samsung-s10-5gs-ai-engine/76044813360526?ADTRK=UBM&elq_mid=8083&elq_cid=876648
A breakdown of the key components of the Qualcomm AI Engine behind Samsung’s latest generation of smartphones.
Samsung’s latest smartphone, the S10 5G, was one of the biggest announcements to come out of the February 2019 Mobile World Congress (MWC).While the phone offers a number of impressive upgrades in terms of display quality, camera, ect. The major innovations come in the form of the phone’s 5G modem (hence the name), and more notably, the next-generation AI Engine at the phone’s core.
These major improvements come courtesy of the Qualcomm Snapdragon 855 Mobile Platform on which the S10 5G is built.
The smartphone’s 5G designed was created using a Snapdragon X50 5G modem. Although 5G is the primary wireless system, a multi-gigabit 4G connectivity is onboard to assist in providing high data rates.
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Humans Need to Beat Robots at Collaboration
https://www.designnews.com/automation-motion-control/humans-need-beat-robots-collaboration/30366353860545?ADTRK=UBM&elq_mid=8083&elq_cid=876648
Team scientists believe the shortcomings of robots offer the perfect opportunity for humans to become better, more efficient collaborators.
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Kelsey Piper / Vox:
Google says it is dissolving its week-old AI ethics board, following controversy over several of the board members
Exclusive: Google cancels AI ethics board in response to outcry
The controversial panel lasted just a little over a week.
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/4/18295933/google-cancels-ai-ethics-board
This week, Vox and other outlets reported that Google’s newly created AI ethics board was falling apart amid controversy over several of the board members.
Well, it’s officially done falling apart — it’s been canceled. Google told Vox on Thursday that it’s pulling the plug on the ethics board.
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AI Will Permeate Our Lives Soon
https://www.eetimes.com/author.asp?section_id=36&doc_id=1334491#
AI will dramatically impact the way in which we see and interact with the world around us, our systems–including homes and cars–and each other.
Many people think that the concept of artificial intelligence (AI) is a recent development, but as far back as the 19th century, Ada Lovelace (1815-1852) realized that the data stored and manipulated inside computers was not obliged to represent numerical quantities but could instead be used to represent more abstract concepts like musical notes.
Alan Turing (1912-1954) also pondered various aspects of AI, but nothing substantial occurred in this space until the Dartmouth Workshop in 1956, which laid the groundwork for what was to come.
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Memory Architectures In AI: One Size Doesn’t Fit All
https://semiengineering.com/memory-architectures-in-ai-one-size-doesnt-fit-all/
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THE FIRST AI GENERATED WHISKY IN THE WORLD
https://ai-whisky.com
Mackmyra has always been exploring new ideas.
Now, celebrating 20 years of whisky-making in Sweden, Mackmyra is delivering something extra special.
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Predicting gentrification through social networking data
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/predicting-gentrification-through-social-networking-data
Data from location-based social networks may be able to predict when a neighbourhood will go through the process of gentrification, by identifying areas with high social diversity and high deprivation.
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Using AI to Make Better AI
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/computing/networks/using-ai-to-make-better-ai
Since 2017, AI researchers have been using AI neural networks to help design better and faster AI neural networks. Applying AI in pursuit of better AI has, to date, been a largely academic pursuit—mainly because this approach requires tens of thousands of GPU hours.
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MicroZed Chronicles: The Deep Learning Processing Unit
https://blog.hackster.io/microzed-chronicles-the-deep-learning-processing-unit-659221f58883
A few weeks ago we looked at the Xilinx Deep Neural Network Development Kit and the DNNDK framework
Tomi Engdahl says:
Is AI as Smart as a Mouse? A Crow? An Expert Physician?
https://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/is-ai-as-smart-as-a-mouse-a-crow-an-expert-physician
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI, ML, & Ubuntu: Everything you need to know
https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/6793/330440?utm_source=facebook_ad&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=FY19_Cloud_K8_WBN_AIML
Tomi Engdahl says:
Untold History of AI: Why Alan Turing Wanted AI Agents to Make Mistakes
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/untold-history-of-ai-why-alan-turing-wanted-ai-to-make-mistakes
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://jukkasoft.com/2019/03/30/neuroverkot-kuten-ne-ymmarran-osa-1/
Tomi Engdahl says:
Who needs Copernicus if you have machine learning?
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611798/who-needs-copernicus-if-you-have-machine-learning/?utm_medium=tr_social&utm_campaign=site_visitor.unpaid.engagement&utm_source=facebook
It took humanity centuries to decide that Earth orbits the sun. Now a neural network has come to the same conclusion, using the same data, in just a few hours.
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ESTONIA IS BUILDING A “ROBOT JUDGE” TO HELP CLEAR LEGAL BACKLOG
https://futurism.com/the-byte/estonia-robot-judge
The Estonian Ministry of Justice has officially asked Ott Velsberg, the country’s chief data officer, to design a “robot judge” to take care of a backlog of small claims court disputes, Wired reports.
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WHITE PAPER
The Artificial Intelligence of Things
https://www.sas.com/en/white-papers/artificial-intelligence-of-things-110060.html?https://www.sas.com/gms/redirect.jsp?detail=GMS95419_133272
From smart connected devices to artificially intelligent things, services and experiences
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://blog.piekniewski.info/2016/08/18/adversarial-red-flag/
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Bloomberg:
As Google disbands its external AI ethics board, a look at its internal AI ethics council comprising of senior execs and led by its chief legal officer
The Google AI Ethics Board With Actual Power Is Still Around
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-06/the-google-ai-ethics-board-with-actual-power-is-still-around
A board filled with internal executives raises questions about accountability
Two weeks ago, Google established an external panel of experts to review thorny ethical issues related to artificial intelligence. It quickly imploded. After a staff revolt over the panel’s members, the company disbanded the panel on Thursday afternoon. Its members never even got the chance to meet.
The episode illustrates the difficulty Google is having as it grapples with the societal implications of the powerful technology shaping its future.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Google to pull plug on AI ethics council
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-alphabet-google-ai/google-to-pull-plug-on-ai-ethics-council-vox-idUSKCN1RH00S
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI: Market Trader and Market Cop
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334518
A new report commissioned by the Alan Turing Institute details how AI is transforming the financial services industry, but warns that up-to-date regulation is needed to avoid misuse of the technology and mitigate the potential for unintended consequences.
Authored by Seattle University’s Professor Bonnie Buchanan, the aim of the report is to promote responsible adoption of AI technology. The report reveals that AI is already widespread in many areas of the financial services sector. AI and machine learning (ML) are frequently used today in credit card fraud detection, bank customer service chatbots, and robo-advisors which provide financial advice to consumers.
Artificial intelligence in finance: New landscaping report from The Alan Turing Institute
https://www.turing.ac.uk/news/artificial-intelligence-finance-new-landscaping-report-alan-turing-institute
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI Research Targets Nvidia, Mobile
Training chip could beat V100 using mobile DRAM
A researcher from the University of Texas at Austin described a chip for training deep neural networks that he said can outperform an Nvidia V100 — even using low-cost mobile DRAM. At the same event, Arm discussed research on a chip that can significantly increase efficiency for computer vision jobs run on mobile systems.
The papers were among more than 30 at the second annual SysML, a gathering at Stanford of top researchers grappling with systems-level issues in deep learning. Their work showed that it’s still early days for the fast-moving field, with engineers still finding fundamental techniques and applications for this new form of computing.
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James Vincent / The Verge:
EU publishes seven guidelines for developing ethical AI applications including being accountable, sustainable, explainable, privacy-respecting, and unbiased — The European Union has published new guidelines on developing ethical AI — The European Union today published a set of guidelines …
AI systems should be accountable, explainable, and unbiased, says EU
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/8/18300149/eu-artificial-intelligence-ai-ethical-guidelines-recommendations
The European Union has published new guidelines on developing ethical AI
The European Union today published a set of guidelines on how companies and governments should develop ethical applications of artificial intelligence.
These rules aren’t like Isaac Asimov’s “Three Laws of Robotics.” They don’t offer a snappy, moral framework that will help us control murderous robots. Instead, they address the murky and diffuse problems that will affect society as we integrate AI into sectors like health care, education, and consumer technology.
Ethics guidelines for trustworthy AI
https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/news/ethics-guidelines-trustworthy-ai
Tomi Engdahl says:
SEC Allows Shareholder Votes on Amazon Facial “Rekognition”
https://www.securityweek.com/sec-allows-shareholder-votes-amazon-facial-rekognition
Amazon shareholders will get the opportunity to vote on two non-binding shareholders’ resolutions concerning the Amazon Rekognition facial recognition system.
Tomi Engdahl says:
James Vincent / The Verge:
EU publishes seven guidelines for developing ethical AI applications including being accountable, sustainable, explainable, privacy-respecting, and unbiased — The European Union has published new guidelines on developing ethical AI — The European Union today published a set of guidelines …
AI systems should be accountable, explainable, and unbiased, says EU
https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/8/18300149/eu-artificial-intelligence-ai-ethical-guidelines-recommendations
Tomi Engdahl says:
Untold History of AI: The DARPA Dreamer Who Aimed for Cyborg Intelligence
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-talk/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/untold-history-of-ai-darpa-dream-of-cyborg-intelligence
Tomi Engdahl says:
Two rival AI approaches combine to let machines learn about the world like a child
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.technologyreview.com/s/613270/two-rival-ai-approaches-combine-to-let-machines-learn-about-the-world-like-a-child/amp/
Together, deep learning and symbolic reasoning create a program that learns in a remarkably humanlike way.
Tomi Engdahl says:
HOW MACHINE LEARNING CAN REVOLUTIONISE CLAIMS MANAGEMENT AND HELP CUT COSTS
https://milliman.ft.com/how-machine-learning-can-revolutionise-claims-management-and-help-cut-costs?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=Insurance_Interest
AI and process automation will consign old-fashioned auditing approaches to history.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The team behind Baidu’s first smart speaker is now using AI to make films
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/07/rct-studio-profile/
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The future of agriculture is computerized
http://news.mit.edu/2019/algorithm-growing-agriculture-0403
Machine learning can reveal optimal growing conditions to maximize taste and other features.
Tomi Engdahl says:
WATCH A NEURAL NETWORK MAKE TRUMP SING EMINEM’S “LOSE YOURSELF”
https://futurism.com/the-byte/neural-network-trump-sing-eminem
Tomi Engdahl says:
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/facebooks-ai-team-maps-out-where-everyone-in-africa-lives/?tpcc=ECFB2019
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Qualcomm Targets AI Inferencing in the Cloud
https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1334548
Qualcomm is taking another stab at the server, throwing its hat into what is rapidly becoming a crowded ring — AI inference processing for the data center.
Qualcomm said in an event here Tuesday that it plans to begin sampling a 7nm AI inference accelerator for the cloud that emphasizes power efficiency and boasts peak performance of more than 350 trillion operations per second (TOPS). The device is expected to be in production next year.
Details about the chip — known as the Qualcomm Cloud AI 100 — were limited.
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI and human obsolescence – what you should know
https://www.solita.fi/en/blogs/ai-and-human-obsolescence-what-you-should-know/?utm_campaign=The%20Impact%20of%20AI&utm_content=89048099&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&hss_channel=fbp-106572039365864
Any discussion about the future effects of AI on society inevitably comes back to one topic – employment. Are we heading towards a sci-fi dystopia, with unemployable humans made obsolete by AI? Automation will enhance productivity – but at what cost to those left behind by this shift?
Tomi Engdahl says:
Democrats draw up bill that would require tech platforms to assess algorithmic bias
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/10/algorithmic-accountability-act/?tpcc=ECFB2019
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The first research book written by an AI could lead to on-demand papers
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/10/the-first-research-book-written-by-an-ai-could-lead-to-on-demand-papers/?tpcc=ECFB2019
Tomi Engdahl says:
AI and Machine Learning for Kids © GPL3+
https://create.arduino.cc/projecthub/Fryden-Learning/ai-and-machine-learning-for-kids-2baa1f
Teach ALL kids the fundamentals of AI and machine learning, through games and hardware and software design.
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Parmy Olson / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Google is quietly disbanding a UK panel to review use of AI in health care after panel members chafed at lack of info, authority, and independence
Google Quietly Disbanded Another AI Review Board Following Disagreements
https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-quietly-disbanded-another-ai-review-board-following-disagreements-11555250401
Panel members in U.K. chafed at lack of information access, authority and independence from Google
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Amenity Analytics raises $18 million for AI that parses regulatory filings and earnings calls for key points
https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/15/amenity-analytics-raises-18-million-for-ai-that-parses-regulatory-filings-and-earnings-calls-for-key-points/
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Manish Singh / VentureBeat:
6sense, which uses big data to predict in real time when people are looking to buy products, raises $27M led by Industry Ventures, bringing total raised to $63M
6sense raises $27 million for its marketing and sales predictive analytics tool
https://venturebeat.com/2019/04/16/6sense-raises-27-million-for-its-marketing-and-sales-predictive-analytics-tool/
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OpenAI Five crushes Dota2 world champs, and soon you can lose to it too
https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/15/openai-five-crushes-dota2-world-champs-and-soon-you-can-lose-to-it-too/?tpcc=ECFB2019
In matches over the weekend, OpenAI’s “Five” system defeated two pro teams soundly