“Google’s DeepMind is embarking on a new research project to help doctors spot the early signs of sight-threatening eye diseases.”
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“Advanced machine learning, also known as artificial intelligence or just A.I., holds far greater promise than unsettling headlines about computers beating humans at games like Jeopardy!, chess, checkers, and Go. Ultimately, humans and machines will work together—not against one another.”
Read: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella : Humans and A.I. can work together to solve society’s challenges.
“We believe that AI technologies are likely to be overwhelmingly useful and beneficial for humanity. But part of being a responsible steward of any new technology is thinking through potential challenges and how best to address any associated risks.”
“Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics (technically four) have been a stalwart of science fiction for decades.”
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“This week is the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Las Vegas, and Google researchers have several accomplishments to present.”
Read: Google researchers teach AIs to see the important parts of images — and tell you about them
“ACCORDING to some prominent voices in the tech world, artificial intelligence presents a looming existential threat to humanity: Warnings by luminaries like Elon Musk and Nick Bostrom about “the singularity” — when machines become smar”
“In the last couple of years, magic started happening in AI.”
“The White House and New York University’s Information Law Institute, with support from Google Open Research, Microsoft Research and the MacArthur Foundation will host a major public symposium to address the near-term impacts of AI technologies across social and economic systems.”
“Ars is excited to be hosting this online debut of Sunspring, a short science fiction film that’s not entirely what it seems. It’s about three people living in a weird future, possibly on a space station, probably in a love triangle.”
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“Facebook has developed a new AI called DeepText that it claims can understand what people are writing about with “near-human accuracy.” Oh, and it can do that several thousand times per second in over 20 languages.”
Read: Facebook says its new AI is almost as good as humans at understanding context