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Facebook AI Goes Off the Rails
Two AI bots Facebook created quickly developed their own method
of communication, leaving the English they had been trained to use in the dust.
Instead, like a couple of pre-teens, they developed their own preferred language.What Facebook developers found most disconcerting was that
they could not follow what the bots were saying to each other. Bob, one bot, said, "I can i i
everything else," to Alice, the second bot, replied, "Balls have zero
to me to me to me..." It is believed that the
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Jul 31st 2017
Artificial Intelligence Accurately Predicted Trump’s 100-Day Approval Rating
A company called Unanimous AI accepted a challenge from the
media to use its Swarm AI to predict the president’s approval rating at 100
days in office. It worked; at least, it matched the results from polls
presented by the Washington Post and ABC News.The company describes its software as “A
combination of real-time human input and A.I. algorithms…Swarm A.I. system combines the knowledge, wisdom, opinions,
and intuitions of live human participants as a unified emergent
intelligence t
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May 1st 2017
ABB & IBM Join to Form Industrial AI Solutions
By combining ABB’s Ability system, which gathers data digitally
from machines, and IBM’s artificial intelligence and machine learning software,
Watson, the companies seek to bring real-time insights to the Industrial
Internet of Things.
"This
powerful combination marks truly the next level of industrial technology,
moving beyond current connected systems that simply gather data, to industrial
operations and machines that use data to sense, analyze, optimize and take
actions that driv
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Apr 25th 2017
The Three Forms of Artificial Intelligence
If the movie Ex Machina
scares you about AI, understanding the three major types of artificial intelligence
may help. Experts disagree on the implications of AI, largely because AI is
such a broad term. As we previously reviewed in the blog about the term “IoT”
and what it includes, AI is in the same boat.Artificial Narrow Intelligence (Weak AI)Ask Siri to explain herself to you because Siri’s
specialized intelligence algorithm falls into the Weak AI category. Weak AI
outperforms task
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Mar 9th 2017
How Artificial Intelligence Leads to Innovation
While some people fret about a reduction in human workforce
through implementation of automation and artificial intelligence, proponents reframe
this objection by pointing out that relieving humans of mundane tasks will
allow them to function in more innovative roles.Many AI developments focus on elevating the human experience
by providing insight coupled with increased productivity. AI allows the
collection and analysis of massive amounts of data to recommend and anticipate actions
while
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Mar 2nd 2017