AI judge predicts outcome of human rights cases with remarkable accuracy
An artificial intelligence algorithm has predicted the outcome of human rights trials with 79 percent accuracy, according to a study published today in PeerJ Computer Science. Developed by researchers from the University College London (UCL), the University of Sheffield, and the University of Pennsylvania, the system is the first of its kind trained solely on […]
Here’s how close AI is to beating humans in different games
Two decades after Deep Blue conquered chess and a year after AlphaGo took down go, there are still games that artificial intelligence can’t beat. AI researchers like games because they offer complex, concrete, and exciting challenges, which can unlock broader applications. Take it from AlphaGo creator Demis Hassabis: Games “are useful as a testbed, a platform for trying […]
Public Input and Next Steps on the Future of Artificial Intelligence
As part of the White House Future of Artificial Intelligence Initiative, OSTP is releasing the public comments submitted on artificial intelligence, sharing insights from five events across the country over the past months, and announcing a new White House event on artificial intelligence at the Frontiers Conference in October, 2016. In June, the White House […]
Google Brain’s neural-net AI dreams up its own encryption strategy
It’s fun to write about developments in artificial intelligence like they’re harbingers of an impending AIpocalypse. Jokes about our new robot overlords notwithstanding, computers are getting scary smart these days, and it’s not always flattering to compare humans with AI. The machines can outperform humans in a lot of important ways: we routinely trust robot surgeons, […]
The rise of Machine Intelligence: Computer Chess
Just over 19 years ago, a milestone in the world of AI was achieved when IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue defeated Garry Kasparov. Until then, he was the undefeated world Chess champion – probably the greatest human player of all time. This was a momentous event in AI’s brief history. Computer chess programs had been playing […]
Japanese AI Writes a Novel, Nearly Wins Literary Award
I had thought my job was safe from automation–a computer couldn’t possibly replicate the complex creativity of human language in writing or piece together a coherent story. I may have been wrong. Authors beware, because an AI-written novel just made it past the first round of screening for a national literary prize in Japan. The […]
Obama: My Successor Will Govern a Country Being Transformed by AI
President Obama thinks that artificial intelligence will be one of the thorny issues awaiting his successor in the White House. The implications of recent advances in AI were a major theme at a technology conference organized by the White House and held in Pittsburgh today. Speaking on stage, Obama said self-driving Ubers, which are being […]
The democratization of technology.
AI is possibly the “last invention” mankind would need to make, and the rewards are incalculable, which is also true of the possible negative consequences. This does not mean there should be a moratorium on the technology. Additionally, the genie is already out of the bottle, and the US would not be able to legitimately […]
Tech Titans Join Forces to Stop AI from Behaving Badly
When it comes to policing artificial intelligence, technology leaders think there is safety in numbers. A new organization called the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence to Benefit People and Society will seek to foster public dialogue and create guidelines for developing AI so that systems do not misbehave. The companies involved include Google and its subsidiary […]
THE THREE HIGHER TRAININGS
Higher training in morality, in meditation, and in wisdom. The teaching on the Four Noble Truths, which was the Buddha’s first teaching following his attainment of full awakening, represents the foundation for the practices of emptiness and the cultivation of compassion. This teaching underpins everything that the Buddha taught subsequently and helps us to establish […]
