Artificial Intelligence
How Much Can We Afford To Forget, If We Train Machines To Remember?
When I was a student, in the distant past when most computers were still huge mainframes, I had a friend whose PhD advisor insisted that he carry out a long and difficult atomic theory calculation by hand. This led to page after page of pencil scratches, full of mistakes, so my friend finally gave in …
The World’s First Talking Machine
That voice in your GPS navigator, the virtual assistant in your smartphone, and the automated responses you get when you dial a company helpline number are not real voices. In other words, there is no big database of spoken words that the computer picks up and strings them together to create a sentence. They are …
Standardizing Ethical Design For Artificial Intelligence And Autonomous Systems
While there is a wide expanse of applications artificial intelligence (AI) brings to the table, some are still concerned about how the technology can be an equally powerful tool to cause harm. In line with this, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Society Standards and Activities Board proposed some standards for the use …
What Is Quantum Machine Learning And How Can It Help Us?
Artificial intelligence refers, among other things, to machines’ capacity to demonstrate some degree of what humans consider “intelligence”. This process is being driven by the rapid advancement of machine learning: getting machines to think for themselves rather than pre-programming them with an absolute concept. Take image recognition. Humans excel at this task, but it’s proved …
Google I/O 2019 | Making Art with Artificial Intelligence: Artists in Conversation
Google I/O 2019 | Making Art with Artificial Intelligence: Artists in Conversation This session will explore new forms of visual art made possible by machine learning, from collaboration with robots to machine models of nature. Hear from some of the artists exhibiting their work on The Boardwalk at I/O as part of I/O Arts. This …
Google I/O 2019 | Introducing Google Coral: Building On-Device AI
Google I/O 2019 | Introducing Google Coral: Building On-Device AI This session will introduce you to Google Coral, a new platform for on-device AI application development and showcase it’s machine learning acceleration power with TensorFlow demos. Coral offers the tools to bring private, fast, and efficient neural network acceleration right onto your device and enables …
Google I/O 2019 | Michio Kaku on The Future of Humanity
Google I/O 2019 | Michio Kaku on The Future of Humanity An enlightening conversation with the famed theoretical physicist, futurist, and co-founder of String Field Theory. This fireside chat will cover a range of topics from quantum computing, how AI can improve our quality of life, to potential life on Mars and why he is …
What Do The Terms ‘Life’, ‘Love’, ‘Art’ & ‘God’ Look Like To An Algorithm?
An unusually inventive instance of digital art, A Brief History of Almost Everything in Five Minutes is a sped-up excerpt from the hour-long multichannel video installation Deep Meditations. The London-based, Turkish-born visual artist Memo Akten created the piece by entering broad and abstract search terms such as ‘everything’, ‘life’, ‘love’, ‘art’, ‘god’ and ‘nature’ into the popular photo-sharing …
Does My Algorithm Have A Mental-Health Problem?
Is my car hallucinating? Is the algorithm that runs the police surveillance system in my city paranoid? Marvin the android in Douglas Adams’s Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy had a pain in all the diodes down his left-hand side. Is that how my toaster feels? This all sounds ludicrous until we realise that our algorithms …
A Neural Network That Keeps Seeing Art Where We See Mundane Objects
When mundane objects such as cords, keys and cloths are fed into a live webcam, a machine-learning algorithm ‘sees’ brilliant colours and images such as seascapes and flowers instead. The London-based, Turkish-born visual artist Memo Akten applies algorithms to the webcam feed as a way to reflect on the technology and, by extension, on ourselves. …