We tend to think of machines, in particular smart machines, as somehow cold, calculating and unbiased. We believe that self-driving cars will have no preference during life or death decisions between the driver and a random pedestrian. We trust that smart systems performing credit assessments will ignore everything except the genuinely impactful metrics, such as…
A country’s dexterity with artificial intelligence technology might be the next strong source of national pride and international power. Knowing it would lay the foundation for the future of medicine, IBM captured the world’s imagination in 2011 with Watson, a supercomputer that not only won Jeopardy!, but beat trivia superstar Ken Jennings in the process….
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY COUNCIL WASHINGTON, D.C. 20502October 12, 2016 Advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology have opened up new markets and new opportunitiesfor progress in critical areas such as health, education, energy, and the environment. In recent years,machines have surpassed humans in the performance of certain specific tasks, such…
Google’s work in machine learning and artificial intelligence is often interesting, but it can be a bit academic. People like to get their hands on these things — as much as you can, anyway, with something intangible. To that end, Google is collecting a bunch of little demonstrations of this emerging category of tech in…
Facebook recently announced a new app that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to make live videos look like art. In September 2016, AI was used to judge a beauty contest called Beauty.Ai 2.0 with controversial results, primarily that the AI selected mostly contestants with white skin. That same month on September 20, 2016, AI entered the Louvre in Paris and was the center of…
Adobe on Wednesday introduced two new platforms that bring machine learning, artificial intelligence and 3D image design to its cloud portfolio. First up, the creative software giant rolled out Sensei, which it describes as “a framework and set of intelligent services built into the Adobe Cloud Platform.” Adobe says it’s been using machine learning and…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
