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Promise Of Artificial Intelligence Showcased In Austin

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Updated: Monday, January 26 2015, 08:11 PM CST

There is a fun side to Artificial Intelligence. At today's Artificial Intelligence Open House in Austin we got to see robots that had learned to play soccer against each other.

But AI has its more serious side: for example in the area of search and rescue. Brittany Duncan, from Texas A&M University, was at the AI Open House showing off a search and rescue drone quad-copter. She says a smarter drone can handle the flying while the pilot focuses on the search. "It's kind of like you're driving down the road looking for a doughnut shop," she says. "Well it's easier to have your passenger look for the doughnut shop than it is for you to look for it yourself while you're driving."

And this same artificial intelligence can be adapted to other tasks. Pascal Bercher, from Ulm University in Germany says AI can add to the user's ability to do a task, for instance product knowledge to help someone trying to install their home theater. He adds, "The user doesn't even need to fully understand the system. He does not need the compatibility of certain cables and all the different parts of the devices."

That's the kind of stuff the crowd at the AI Open House wanted to hear. If robots are going to keep getting smarter and faster-- we want them on our team.

By Fred Cantu

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Kim Solez Intro to AI: Stem Cells Regenerative Medicine Pathology-2015 and Aibos – Video

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Dr. Kim Solez gives the introduction to the first artificial intelligence lecture, with discussion of student participation in the Pathology-2015 meeting in New Orleans, stem cell and regenerative...

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Artificial Intelligence Open House Comes To Austin

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Updated: Sunday, January 25 2015, 01:16 PM CST The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) will be holding a public open house as part of their annual research conference. The public is invited to come and see a small sample of the latest work in Artificial Intelligence, including robotics, game-playing programs, and much more.

Admission to the open house is free but please register here: movingai.com/AAAI15/register.html.

Please contact William Yeoh (wyeoh@cs.nmsu.edu) or Nathan Sturtevant (sturtevant@cs.du.edu) for inquiries, or if you would like to bring a group of participants to attend this event.

Guests to the event will include University of Texas at Austin professor Peter Stone and his award-winning robot soccer team, University of California at Berkeley Professor Stuart Russell, on the risk A.I poses for the human race, Rice University's Dr. Moshe Vardi, on AI's impact on the workforce, as well as IBM's Watson, Cepheus the poker-playing robot, sports-playing humanoid robots, search and rescue robots from Texas A&M, tour-guiding robots from UT Austin and much more.

The open house from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence is part of the premiere national and international conference on AI being held in Austin all week. Experts respond to dire warnings from public figures such as Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk about what advances in AI will mean for the human race. Artificial Intelligence Open House Comes To Austin

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Robots showing Austinites 'Artificial Intelligence' isn't scary

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From the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" to the movie "I, Robot," artificial intelligence is seen behaving badly. Filmmakers and the viewing public have often wondered what would happen if robots ever ran amok.

Dr. Nathan Sturtevant, an expert in the artificial intelligence field just doesn't agree with sentiments from physicist Stephen Hawking and tech giant Elon Musk that A.I. is a threat to people.

"You can use chemistry, you know, to build a bomb. And no one has dire warnings that if you develop chemistry it's going to be the end of the world," he said.

Sturtevant is part of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. They're having their annual conference at the Hyatt in Austin this week.

Seeing robots play soccer in a "Robo-Cup" is something the public can see during an open house on Monday.

UT student Katie Genter helps program the robots. "Every year we compete in an international competition against teams from all over the world. And the idea is to program robots that can act autonomously, so act without any human input...and be able to play soccer," she said.

She says in the future, the tiny players will get bigger and better.

"One of the goals of Robocup is actually to have a team of autonomous robots, bigger than these guys hopefully, more like human-sized...be able to beat the World Cup champion team...like on an actual human field," Genter said.

Sturtevant says another reason robots won't be running the show anytime soon is -- even though the Robocup players play soccer much better than they used to they still won't work unless the carpet is green, the ball is red...and if the lighting in the room isn't just right, they can't see anything. So he says technology has a ways to go.

"Raw computation on its own, I don't think has the power to create a being that is suddenly going to be sentient. That's my personal opinion, other people would disagree with me. But as our computation increases, we'll see where that goes and it's something we should pay attention to but it's not something right now that we have to be afraid of," he said.

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Disgruntled over big data? Maybe it's that visualization, magic box dependence

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Summary:We catch up with BeyondCore CEO Arijit Sengupta and chat about how too many fancy graphics and artificial intelligence powered magic boxes may lead to big data disillusionment.

Big data, artificial intelligence and visualization may be nearing an emperor has no clothes intersection as we regular humans---business managers---start believing in beautiful but statistically insignificant graphics and magic boxes that are marketed as experts systems.

Simply put, the whole big data and analytics movement may be hitting Gartner's trough of disillusionment. You knew the trough was coming. Consider the following developments:

Today, you can't escape the Internet of things and all that data that'll be thrown off from devices. Let's table the discussion about what we'll do with that information. We'll figure it out at some point, say business execs.

Sure they will.

BeyondCore CEO Arijit SenguptaThat backdrop is one reason why my conversation with BeyondCore CEO Arijit Sengupta was so timely. Sengupta's company is 18 months old and has landed 23 Fortune 100 clients. BeyondCore's lead product, which takes any data with at least 1,000 rows (the more rows the better) and took eight years of research to develop, aims to tell the average business user a statistically significant narrative without a human question to initiate the discussion.

The key words in that previous sentence is statistically relevant and narrative. Sengupta's beef is that today's artificial intelligence is taking human intuition out of the equation. That movement means two things: First, we'll need data scientists to tell us what to do. Second, we'll be marketed magic boxes that aim to lead us. Either way we're outsourcing way too much intelligence and instead of becoming data savvy we'll just become visualization slaves. After all, we all look smarter with a fancy graphic to back us up. The catch is visualization isn't analysis.

Also: Big data initiatives not quite delivering yet, survey shows | Samsung at CES 2015: How enterprise fits it in with Internet-of-Things | The Internet inside the enterprise: We don't have it, and we need it | Lowe's at CES 2015: Smart homes are about lifestyles, demystifying home automation | Welcome to the dystopian Internet of Things, powered by and starring you | Five years until the Internet of Things arrives? Why I hope it's a lot, lot longer | Cisco's next stop on Internet-of-Everything roadmap: Connected analytics

"If artificial intelligence (AI) systems can't let a business user understand it, the insight will remain the domain of data scientists or machines," said Sengupta, an Oracle and Microsoft alum. "We're just getting to the point where the market is beginning to understand how dangerous believing in dashboards and magical boxes."

In other words, we can't let the data scientists and engineers run away with big data or we'll have information haves and have nots.

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