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Nearly Half of All Jobs in Japan Could Be Done by Robots, AI
Half of Japan’s working population could be replaced by robots or artificial-intelligence programs within the next 10 to 20 years, Nomura Research Institute said in a report released Wednesday. The institute studied about 600 occupations together with researchers from Oxford University. They used an algorithm to examine each profession and the level of creativity or systematic flow it required by the worker, and found that 49% of them could be handled by computerization.
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Why Memory and Mimicry Are The Next big Frontiers in AI
Big name investors and companies are investing in the bleeding edge of artificial intelligence. For the last five years the effort to teach computers to think more like humans, to learn how to recognize speech and images on their own has been the goal of deep learning. But now tech giants and startups in the industry are turning to new tools believing that deep learning has essentially solved its recognition problem.
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Why 2015 Was a Breakthrough Year in Artificial Intelligence
After a half-decade of quiet breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, 2015 has been a landmark year. Computers are smarter and learning faster than ever. The pace of advancement in AI is "actually speeding up," said Jeff Dean, a senior fellow at Google. To celebrate their achievements and plot the year ahead, Dean and many of the other top minds in AI are convening in Montreal this week at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference. It started in 1987 and has become a must-attend...
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Elon Musk on the Future - Prediciting A.I. and the World of 2035
Musk discusses the future of AI and how the world will look in 2035.
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Some scientists fear superintelligent machines could pose a threat to humanity
Big-name scientists worry that runaway artificial intelligence could annihilate humanity. Are we fully in control of our technology?
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Superintelligence: fears, promises, and potentials
Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom, in his recent and celebrated book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, argues that advanced AI poses a potentially major existential risk to humanity, and that advanced AI development should be heavily regulated and perhaps even restricted to a small set of government-approved researchers. Bostrom’s ideas and arguments are reviewed and explored in detail, and compared with the thinking of three other current thinkers on the nature and implications...
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Harvard awarded £19m to build brain-inspired artificial intelligence
Harvard University has been awarded $28 million (£19m) to investigate why brains are so much better at learning and retaining information than artificial intelligence. The award, from the Intelligence Advanced Projects Activity (IARPA), could help make AI systems faster, smarter and more like human brains. While many computers have a comparable storage capacity, their ability to recognise patterns and learn information does not match the human brain. But a better understanding of how neurons...
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How 'artificial swarm intelligence' uses people to make better predictions than experts
While AI focuses on creating intelligent machines that perform human tasks, a human-based algorithm, harnessing the power of the crowd to make predictions, shows remarkable accuracy.
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The race for the master algorithm has begun
Geoff Hinton believes that the way our brains learn can be captured in a single algorithm, and he's spent the last 40 years trying to discover it. A psychologist turned computer scientist who now splits his time between Google and the University of Toronto, he tells of coming home from work one day in a state of great excitement, exclaiming, "I did it! I've figured out how the brain works!" His daughter replied, "Oh Dad, not again!" But after many ups and downs, his quest is starting to pay off.
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Google AI algorithm masters ancient game of Go
Deep-learning software defeats human professional for first time.
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This robot keyboard will catapult Microsoft into the artificial intelligence race
The humble keyboard hasn't changed much since it was first invented. Even the jump from physical keyboards to the digital ones you use on your smartphone still look virtually identical — save for the new emoji keys we've grown accustomed to punching into a text message or tweet. But for years now, scientists have been trying to crack the code behind natural language, a surprisingly difficult "technology" that, if only we could teach...
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Would you bet against sex robots? AI 'could leave half of world unemployed'
Machines could put more than half the world’s population out of a job in the next 30 years, according to a computer scientist who said on Saturday that artificial intelligence’s threat to the economy should not be understated. Expert Moshe Vardi told the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): “We are approaching a time when machines will be able to outperform humans at almost any task.
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The NSA’s SKYNET program may be killing thousands of innocent people
"Ridiculously optimistic" machine learning algorithm is "completely bullshit," says expert.
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X Prize and IBM announce a $5 million artificial intelligence competition
The X Prize Foundation and IBM have just announced a new global X Prize competition with a focus on artificial intelligence.
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Robots could learn human values by reading stories, research suggests
More than 70 years ago, Isaac Asimov dreamed up his three laws of robotics, which insisted, above all, that “a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm”. Now, after Stephen Hawking warned that “the development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race”, two academics have come up with a way of teaching ethics to computers: telling them stories.
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Artificial intelligence needs your data, all of it
Today's concerns about giving up privacy will seem quaint in the coming years. A.I. will need everything, and we'll happily give it.
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What’s Next in Computing?
The computing industry progresses in two mostly independent cycles: financial and product cycles. There has been a lot of handwringing lately about where we are in the financial cycle. Financial markets get a lot of attention. They tend to fluctuate unpredictably and sometimes wildly. The product cycle by comparison gets relatively little attention, even though it is what actually drives the computing industry forward. We can try to understand and predict the product...
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13 AI researchers reveal the amazing facts that blow their minds
Artificial intelligence researchers aren't easily impressed.
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Facebook AI is playing with children’s blocks to learn physics
Look at these blocks. Do you think they’re going to fall? That simple question drives a new experiment from Facebook’s artificial intelligence research lab – an attempt to create software that can observe a simple version of the world and predict what will happen. Facebook’s researchers wanted the software to intuit what was about to happen in the physical world just like humans do, not to make judgements based on rules written by engineers. “Making such...
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DeepMind founder Demis Hassabis on how AI will shape the future
DeepMind’s stunning victories over Go legend Lee Se-dol have stoked excitement over artificial intelligence’s potential more than any event in recent memory. But the Google subsidiary’s AlphaGo program is far from its only project — it’s not even the main one. As co-founder Demis Hassabis said earlier in the week, DeepMind wants to “solve intelligence,” and he has more than a few ideas about how to get there.
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