Artificial Intelligence – Science, Technology, Society

Psychedelic science: the emerging science of plant based therapy

Posted on May 17, 2013July 1, 2013 by timbatchelder

Open Your Mind to the New Psychedelic Science
Greg Miller, wired.com

In recent years, a small cadre of scientists has cautiously rekindled the scientific study of psychedelics. At a recent conference, they reported new findings on how these drugs scramble brain activity in ways that might help explain their…

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Drugs and the Meaning of Life (samharris.org)
Artist Manipulates Water With The Power Of Her Mind (bryantharper.wordpress.com)
Can You Be Addicted To Carbs? Scientists Are Checking That Out (npr.org)
Dr. Robin Carhart-Harris (iopneuroimaging.wordpress.com)
First official Brain-Computer Interface journal coming in January 2014 (neurogadget.com)
For the first time, scientists can identify your emotions based on brain activity (theverge.com)
Probiotics May Alter Brain Activity Involving Emotional Regulation. (zedie.wordpress.com)

How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language

Posted on January 15, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder

How Google’s Ray Kurzweil will teach computers to understand human language
By Nathan Ingraham, theverge.com

Futurist and artificial intelligence guru Ray Kurzweil has just started at Google and gave an interview to Singularity Hub days after starting his new work. For starters, Kurzweil plans to dive into natural language…

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Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable true natural language understanding (nextbigfuture.com)
Exclusive Interview: Ray Kurzweil Discusses His First Two Months At Google (singularityhub.com)
Ray Kurzweil Sees No Reason Why He Should Accept Death (betabeat.com)
Deep Learning (technologyreview.com)
Deep Learning (semanticweb.com)

IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell

Posted on January 13, 2013April 26, 2013 by timbatchelder

IBM Predicts: Cognitive Computers That Feel And Smell, Within The Next Five Years
By Clay Dillow, popsci.com

The computing giant’s annual list of technology predictions for the next five years foresee computers that can taste, see, smell, hear, and touch.

At the end of each year, IBM releases its “5 in 5”—five technology predictions that IBM…

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Business Model Innovation (risingwiththecloud.wordpress.com)
IBM’s Robot Sidekick to Aid Field Engineers (greateribm.wordpress.com)
IBM acquires UrbanCode, maker of software update tools (newyork.newsday.com)
If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It: Ancient Computers in Use Today (1948!) (adafruit.com)
Guest Lecture: Chris Welty (IBM Research), 18 March 2013 (13:30 – 15:15) (thesocialweb2013.wordpress.com)

Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning

Posted on January 11, 2013April 23, 2013 by timbatchelder

Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning
Raj De Datta, CEO, BloomReach, allthingsd.com

The advent of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Adobe Marketing Cloud demonstrates the need for enterprises to develop new ways of harnessing the vast potential of big data. Yet these marketing clouds beg the question of who will help…

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Startups working on Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) (datascience101.wordpress.com)
DARPA Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves (leaksource.wordpress.com)
London-Based Incubator SeedCloud Invests in Big Data, Machine Learning (semanticweb.com)
Measuring Impact of Tumblr with Adobe Social and Adobe Analytics (blogs.adobe.com)
Big Data, Big Opportunities (restreaming.wordpress.com)
Darpa Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves (zen-haven.com)

Tweet analyzer ranks trustworthy Tweets during emergencies

Posted on December 28, 2012June 4, 2013 by timbatchelder

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Cory Doctorow, boingboing.net

In “Credibility ranking of tweets during high impact events,” a paper published in the ACM’s Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Privacy and Security in Online Social Media , two Indraprastha Institute of Information…

Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics for trustworthy tweets in time of emergency

Machine-learning algorithm develops heuristics for trustworthy tweets in time of emergency (boingboing.net)
Predicting the Credibility of Disaster Tweets Automatically (irevolution.net)
Automatically Ranking the Credibility of Tweets During Major Events (irevolution.net)
Can Twitter Predict Your Favorite Book? (huffingtonpost.com)
Researchers Develop an Internet Truth Machine (news.slashdot.org)

Transcendence: a new film about AI

Posted on December 16, 2012April 16, 2013 by timbatchelder

Johnny Depp assumes the role of artificial intelligence in new sci-fi flick ‘Transcendence’
By Kimber Streams, theverge.com

Johnny Depp will play a scientist whose consciousness is uploaded to a supercomputer in the upcoming science fiction film Transcendence, TheWrap reports. Inception director Christopher Nolan is executive…

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Johnny Depp’s ‘Transcendence’ Adds Paul Bettany, Gets Dated (screencrave.com)
Morgan Freeman Finds ‘Transcendence’ With Johnny Depp (variety.com)

Marketing clouds: here comes machine learning

Posted on December 14, 2012April 15, 2013 by timbatchelder

Beyond Marketing Clouds — The Age of Machine Learning
Raj De Datta, CEO, BloomReach, allthingsd.com

The advent of Salesforce Marketing Cloud and Adobe Marketing Cloud demonstrates the need for enterprises to develop new ways of harnessing the vast potential of big data. Yet these marketing clouds beg the question of who will help…

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Startups working on Machine Learning as a Service (MLaaS) (datascience101.wordpress.com)
DARPA Envisions the Future of Machine Learning (spacemart.com)
London-Based Incubator SeedCloud Invests in Big Data, Machine Learning (semanticweb.com)
Darpa Sets Out to Make Computers That Can Teach Themselves (zen-haven.com)
Computers Aren’t Smart Enough for Darpa, So It Wants Them to Learn (wired.com)

Language and cognitive systems guru Kurzweil asked to head Google engineering

Posted on December 14, 2012April 10, 2013 by timbatchelder

Ray Kurzweil becomes a Googler, named Director of Engineering
Alexis Santos, engadget.com

Come December 18th, futurist extraordinaire Ray Kurzweil will be joining Google’s ranks as Director of Engineering to work on projects that involve machine learning and language processing. Specifics regarding those projects, howev…

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Ray Kurzweil’s Goal at Google is to enable true natural language understanding (nextbigfuture.com)
Video: Futurist Ray Kurzweil talks about being Google’s Director of Engineering (mysticpolitics.wordpress.com)
Leading Neuroscientist Says Kurzweil Singularity Prediction A “Bunch Of Hot Air” (singularityhub.com)
Ray Kurzweil joins Google to work on machine learning, language processing (nextlevelofnews.com)

Stanford artificial intelligence e-learning course draws four times the entire student body

Posted on August 22, 2011February 11, 2013 by timbatchelder

There is currently no consensus on how closely... — There is currently no consensus on how closely the brain should be simulated. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Inspired by Khan Academy a new Stanford e-learning course on AI has triggered a huge volume of interest (4 times the size of the entire student body!)

Stanford Artificial Intelligence course draws avalanche of sign-ups.

Artificial Intelligence (unrealengine.com)
Using Artificial Intelligence (And A Little Scolding) To Reduce Energy Use (fastcoexist.com)
Artificial intelligence (cyberleague.wordpress.com)
Random and Inconclusive Thoughts on What It Means to Be Human (mraybould.wordpress.com)
Artificial Intelligence Goes Mobile to Create Context-Aware Business Users’ Assistants by ClickSoftware (sys-con.com)

Artificial intelligence is already here (and in control)

Posted on February 19, 2011February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

Just when many were convinced of the futility of AI in the immediate future, an interesting article in Wired shows just how embedded it is in our everyday life, from flash trading to self driving cars, fraud detection and more. The difference? Let computers accomplish tasks we don’t want to do their own way instead of trying to make them think like humans.

Artificial intelligence is here

Artificial Intelligence (unrealengine.com)
Magnus Olsson: Nano-Brain-Implant and Artificial Intelligence Technologies (Full Lecture) (lightmsgs.wordpress.com)
Sustainability and artificial intelligence (liberatedway.com)
GRIP Joins Unreal Engine 3 Integrated Partners Program (unrealengine.com)
John McCarthy (1927-2011) on Artificial Intelligence (singularityweblog.com)
Artificial intelligence enables a new user experience (vator.tv)
Bruce Sterling Thinks Artificial Intelligence Has Jumped the Shark (ieet.org)
OpenCog: an integrative cognitive architecture (ieet.org)
Engineers solve a biological mystery and boost artificial intelligence (scooprocket.com)

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