Artificial Intelligence
AI Is Here To Stay. Now We Need To Ensure Everyone Benefits
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already in use in many sectors. Its contribution is expected to rise steadily, driven by advances in data storage, computer processing power and connectivity. Following a report on AI by the Australian Council of Learned Academies (ACOLA), the Royal Society of New Zealand Te Apārangi launched a report that focuses on the opportunities …
Microsoft Build 2019 | Azure AI: Making AI real for every developer and every organization
Microsoft Build 2019 | Azure AI: Making AI real for every developer and every organization Session ID: BRK2006 AI is transforming industries, bringing unprecedented change – and at the heart of this are developers building new products and experiences. Learn how you can leverage Azure AI portfolio to add new experiences to existing apps, …
Microsoft Build 2019 | Azure AI Overview
Microsoft Build 2019 | Azure AI Overview Session ID: BDL2005 Join Seth in a conversation with Eric Boyd, CVP AI Platform, to discuss the top news from the world of Azure AI.
Light, A Possible Solution For A Sustainable Artificial Intelligence
We are currently witnessing a rapidly growing adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) in our everyday lives, which has the potential to translate into a variety of societal changes, including improvements to economy, better living conditions, easier access to education, well-being, and entertainment. Such a much anticipated future, however, is tainted with issues related to privacy, …
Taking Machine Learning To The Birds
The Cacophony Project‘s broad vision is to bring back New Zealand’s native birds using the latest technology to monitor bird populations and humanely eliminate the introduced predators that are endangering them. The project started in our founder’s backyard to measure the effectiveness of his efforts to protect the birds on his property. From this simple beginning, …
An Electronic Chip That Makes ‘Memories’ Is A Step Towards Creating Bionic Brains
What better way to build smarter computer chips than to mimic nature’s most perfect computer – the human brain? Being able to store, delete and process information is crucial for computing, and the brain does this extremely efficiently. Our new electronic chip uses light to create and modify memories, moving us closer towards artificial intelligence …
OpenAI Forms Exclusive Computing Partnership With Microsoft To Build New Azure AI Supercomputing Technologies
Multiyear partnership founded on shared values of trustworthiness and empowerment, and an investment of $1 billion from Microsoft, will focus on building a platform that OpenAI will use to create new AI technologies and deliver on the promise of artificial general intelligence. Microsoft Corp. and OpenAI, two companies thinking deeply about the role of AI …
Neuroscience And Artificial Intelligence Can Help Improve Each Other
Despite their names, artificial intelligence technologies and their component systems, such as artificial neural networks, don’t have much to do with real brain science. I’m a professor of bioengineering and neurosciences interested in understanding how the brain works as a system – and how we can use that knowledge to design and engineer new machine …
Science Has Outgrown The Human Mind And Its Limited Capacities
The duty of man who investigates the writings of scientists, if learning the truth is his goal, is to make himself an enemy of all that he reads and … attack it from every side. He should also suspect himself as he performs his critical examination of it, so that he may avoid falling into …
Google I/O 2019 | Cutting Edge TensorFlow: New Techniques
Google I/O 2019 | Cutting Edge TensorFlow: New Techniques There’s lots of great new things available in TensorFlow since last year’s IO. This session will take you through 4 of the hottest from Hyperparameter Tuning with Keras Tuner to Probabilistic Programming to being able to rank your data with learned ranking techniques and TF-Ranking. Finally, …