Artificial Intelligence in Racing Simulations: Driving Around
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Sentient Technologies LLC, an artificial-intelligence startup, raised $103.5 million as it develops data-analysis technology that will help companies use software to manage complex tasks like financial trading.
The Series C funding round was led by Access Industries Holdings Inc., with participation from a subsidiary of Tata Communications Ltd. (TCOM), Horizons Ventures and private investors in the finance, consumer, food and beverage and real estate industries, Sentient said today in a statement.
The investment brings the seven-year-old companys total funding to more than $143 million. Valuation wasnt disclosed. Sentient has been pursuing partnerships to tailor its proprietary data-analysis and prediction technology for specific uses, Nigel Duffy, chief technology officer for artificial intelligence, said in an interview.
The San Francisco-based company has already made automated financial-trading technology -- which is currently in development with an undisclosed partner, Duffy said -- and worked with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to make tools for analyzing and predicting the likelihood of intensive care unit patients developing sepsis, for example. It plans to team up with Indias Tata Communications to develop customized technologies, such as security products for the companys large Internet network, Duffy said.
Sentient, which has 60 employees, is benefiting from renewed interest in artificial intelligence, technology that has been in development since the 1960s yet has been prone to booms and busts as investors become optimistic about its possibilities, then cynical when companies fail to achieve their goals.
AI has re-emerged in the past decade as consumer Web companies such as Google Inc. (GOOGL) and Microsoft Corp. collected so much data that they needed to develop new systems to analyze it. The companies turned to various artificial-intelligence research endeavors conducted by academics and applied their findings to modern problems. That approach worked, and has led companies and investors to flock back to the industry.
Google, robot maker ABB Ltd. and Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg are among those investing in or purchasing artificial-intelligence startups or technology in recent years.
Sentients software works by running multiple evolutionary algorithms over a pile of data at once, then using its own technology to grab all the answers and come up with an optimal solution, Duffy said. Its like taking the best bits of evolution and combining them, so instead of getting a few animals specialized at specific tasks you end up with one animal that is great all around, he said. This means that its technology is more flexible than typical artificial-intelligence approaches that utilize machine learning, he said.
Evolutionary algorithms can work with much less formal descriptions of the problem, he said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jack Clark in San Francisco at jclark185@bloomberg.net
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Dallas, TX (PRWEB) November 24, 2014
Today, myDiModa, Inc. announced the beta availability of their new mens style app, myDiModa. myDiModa is the first mens fashion app to apply artificial intelligence technology to create great-looking outfits from clothing in their existing wardrobe. Visitors are invited to sign up for the beta program at http://www.myDiModa.com.
Unlike other style apps on the market, myDiModas innovative patent-pending process uses complex, proprietary algorithms to identify the color and pattern of clothes from imported images, and then recommends matching, stylish outfits for any occasion.
Artificial intelligence is helping make our lives easier in many ways, from our car GPS systems telling us the best route to our destination, to book recommendations on Amazon, said myDiModa founder, Terrence Carroll. I thought, why not apply that same type of technology to helping men choose the right clothes to wear from their closet? Thats a challenge for many men like me we find ourselves standing in front of the closet on the morning of an important business meeting or special event, not knowing what combinations worked best together. So I set out to design an app that would use artificial intelligence to make it easy for any man to develop his own personal style.
With myDiModa, the user takes pictures of their individual clothing items, and the technology recognizes the color and pattern. Then the user is guided through putting together great-looking outfits with the stylish expertise built into the app. Users can select from a number of combinations recommended by myDiModa, or have the app match the right shirt and jacket with a specific pair of pants, for example.
myDiModa helps men build their individual look from their current wardrobe. By liking favorite outfits, the user trains the algorithm to learn his personal style and preferences. It can even recommend fashionable additions to the users existing wardrobe.
To get personal style for men in the palm of their hand and be the first to try out the new technology, visitors are encouraged to sign up for the myDiModa beta program at http://www.mydimoda.com.
About myDiModa, Inc.
Headquartered in Dallas, Texas, myDiModa, Inc. was established in 2014 by Terrence Carroll, a technologist with more than 15 years of experience and a record of excellence in developing, growing and managing strategic accounts for major corporations. Frustrated with the time-consuming (and often unpleasant for guys) process of having to figure out the best outfits for work and play, he came up with an innovative fashion app for men - myDiModa.
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For decades, the Turing Test has been the standard method used to measure whether or not a machine or computer program exhibits human-level intelligence, but now a Georgia Institute of Technology researcher has devised an alternative method that relies not on its ability to converse, but on its ability to create a convincing story, poem or painting.
The new test is known as Lovelace 2.0 and it was developed by Mark Riedl, an associate professor in the Georgia Tech School of Interactive Computing. In his work, Riedl sought to improve upon the original Lovelace Test, which was first proposed back in 2001, by creating clear and measurable parameters by which to judge the artistic work created by the artificial intelligence (AI) system.
For the test, the artificial agent passes if it develops a creative artifact from a subset of artistic genres deemed to require human-level intelligence and the artifact meets certain creative constraints given by a human evaluator, he explained to BBC News technology reporter Jane Wakefield. Creativity is not unique to human intelligence, but it is one of the hallmarks of human intelligence.
The original Lovelace Test required that the AI agent develop a creative work in such a way that the person or team who designed it cannot explain how it developed said item, meaning that the creation must have been made in a way deemed valuable, novel and surprising. In Riedls new updated version of the test, however, the evaluator is asked to work within defined constraints without making value judgments about the artistic object.
The Georgia Tech researcher proposes that Lovelace 2.0 is an alternative to the Turing Test, which was originally proposed by computing pioneer Alan Turing back in 1950. Originally known as the Imitation Game, the Turing Test has long been used to test the intelligence capabilities of computational systems, despite the fact that it often relies on deception and the fact that the man who developed it never envisioned using it as a diagnostic tool.
Its important to note that Turing never meant for his test to be the official benchmark as to whether a machine or computer program can actually think like a human, Riedl said in a recent statement. And yet it has, and it has proven to be a weak measure because it relies on deception. This proposal suggests that a better measure would be a test that asks an artificial agent to create an artifact requiring a wide range of human-level intelligent capabilities.
According to Wakefield, a computer is considered to have passed the Turing Test if it is mistaken for a human more than 30 percent of the time during a five-minute series of keyboard conversations. In June, a program designed to simulate a 13-year-old Ukrainian allegedly passed the test, though some experts dispute those claims. Riedl told the BBC that even no existing story generation system can pass the Lovelace 2.0 test.
I think this new test shows that we all now recognize that humans are more than just very advanced machines, and that creativity is one of those features that separates us from computers for now, added Professor Alan Woodward, a computer expert from the University of Surrey thinks it could help make a key distinction.
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One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial intelligence isn't synthetic intelligence: It's pseudo-intelligence.
This really ought to be obvious. Clocks may keep time, but they don't know what time it is. And strictly speaking, it is we who use them to tell time. But the same is true of Watson, the IBM supercomputer that supposedly played Jeopardy! and dominated the human competition. Watson answered no questions. It participated in no competition. It didn't do anything. All the doing was on our side. We played Jeapordy! with Watson. We used "it" the way we use clocks.
Philosophers and biologists like to compare the living organism to a machine. And once that's on the table, we are lead to wonder whether various kinds of human-made machines could have minds like ours, too.
But it's striking that even the simplest forms of life the amoeba, for example exhibit an intelligence, an autonomy, an originality, that far outstrips even the most powerful computers. A single cell has a life story; it turns the medium in which it finds itself into an environment and it organizes that environment into a place of value. It seeks nourishment. It makes itself and in making itself it introduces meaning into the universe.
Now, admittedly, unicellular organisms are not very bright but they are smarter than clocks and supercomputers. For they possess the rudimentary beginnings of that driven, active, compelling engagement that we call life and that we call mind. Machines don't have information. We process information with them. But the amoeba does have information it gathers it, it manufactures it.
I'll start worrying about the singularity when IBM has made machines that exhibit the agency and awareness of an amoeba.
There is another sense, though, in which we hit the singularity long ago. We don't make smart machines and we don't make machines likely to be smarter than us. But we do make ourselves smarter and more flexible and more capable through our machines and other technologies. Clothing, language, pictures, writing, the abacus and so on. Each of these has not only expanded us but has altered us, making us into something we were not before. And this process of making and remaking, or extending and transforming, is as old as our species.
In a sense, then, we've always been trans-human, more than human, or more than merely biological. Or rather, our biology as always been technology-enriched and more than merely flesh and blood.
We carry on the process that begins with the amoeba. Watson is our achievement. Its pseudo-intelligence is our genuine, 100 percent novel intelligence.
Alva No is a philosopher at the University of California at Berkeley where he writes and teaches about perception, consciousness and art. You can keep up with more of what Alva is thinking on Facebook and on Twitter: @alvanoe
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AI helps mechanical magicians fool human spectators
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The perfect sleight is a flawlessly coordinated act of deception. Magicians dedicate hours to bullying their fingers into precise positions and years mastering the art of misdirection. The best illusionists spend a lifetime honing their prestidigitations.
Now, theres a computer can do it, tooall in a matter of seconds.
Yesterday programmers at Queen Mary University of London unveiled a system that uses artificial intelligence to perform magic tricks. The program not only calculates probabilitiesit can capture every potential outcome of most card tricksthe system also evaluates how human spectators will perceive its performances, based on behavioral and cognitive studies. When spectators view a magic trick, they are not experiencing a mathematical model, says Howard Williams, a computer scientist at Queen Mary and co-creator of the system. So we break down the trick into its mathematical and psychological components.
The 12 magicians of Osiris
The first trick looks relatively simple. A wooden jigsaw puzzle depicts 12 magicians hands, each casting a spell. But rearrange the puzzle and two of the spells vanish. Hit replay a few times and it just gets frustratingWhere did those extra spells go?
The effect is based on a classic American puzzle, which sold over 10 million copies back in 1898. Called Get Off the Earth, it employs the same (frustrating) illusion. Keep an eye on this puzzle and youll notice that one of the 13 characters keeps disappearing as Earth moves.
Both tricks involve imperceptibly changing the lengths of some of the puzzle pieces but Williams wondered if science could improve on the illusion. In magic jigsaw puzzles the way people see shapes and changes in length is the fundamental building block, Williams says. How much can you change the length of a shape before someone notices?
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Sherlock encounters an artificial intelligence software that may be his perfect match on tonights Elementary season 3, episode 4, Bella.
Elementary has given Sherlock a wide array of interesting cases, hobbies, and experiments over the years. Some extend beyond his capacity to comprehend, but with his irregulars occasionally stepping in to fill the gaps. On tonights Elementary season 3, episode 4, Bella, Sherlock will step aside from investigating the human who of the case and focus on the how of the machine.
The varying extremes of Joan and Sherlocks approach to relationships was the focus of last weeks episode. When Harlan Emple, Sherlocks primary math consultant, comes back into the picture, Sherlock handles the admiration Harlan holds for him in a less than cordial way. Joans compassion certainly rubbed off on him and he recognizes how he mishandled Harlan and makes amends by saving his life and eliminating the trail that could lead the FBI to his blog.
Joan and Kitty have their own communication issues as Joan tries to bridge the gap between them by putting Kitty on one of her PI cases. Sherlock encourages the interaction, but Joan worries that he and Kitty are feeding off one another in an unhealthy way. Kitty recognizes the shortcomings of Sherlocks mentorship and takes a giant leap towards Watson explaining that she will need both of them to succeed in her training.
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Artificial intelligence software is nothing groundbreaking. But AI software that begins to make requests without the input of its programmers, is another story. When the program, Bella, is stolen, Holmes is sought out by the companys founder to expedite the recovery process. With Kitty and Joan out on the streets, Sherlock is left to submit the computer to the Turing test. Will the machine be able to match intelligent behavior of Holmes?
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For months, billionaire tech entrepreneur Elon Musk has been warning the world that developments in artificial intelligence could cause robots to become hostile to humans.
It all started in June when Musk explained why he invested in artificial intelligence company DeepMind. He said that he likes to "keep an eye on what's going on with artificial intelligence" because he believes there could be a "dangerous outcome" there."There have been movies about this, you know, like Terminator," Musk said.
But Musk's warnings didn't end there. He's gone on to suggest that robots could delete humans like spam, and even said in a since-deleted comment that killer robots could arrive within five years.
But is Musk right about the threat of AI? We asked Louis Del Monte who has written about AI and is a former employee of IBM and Honeywell's microelectronics units whether robots really will kill us all.
"Musk is correct," Del Monte said, "killer robots are already a reality and will proliferate over the next five or ten years."
Del Monte explained that artificial intelligence is developing at a rapid pace, and that could pose a threat to humanity if it comes to believe that humans are simply "junk code" that gets in the way:
"The power of computers doubles about every 18 months. If you use today as a starting point, we will have computers equivalent to human brains by approximately 2025. In addition, computers in 2025 will have the ability to learn from experience and improve their performance, similar to how humans learn from experience and improve their performance. The difference is that computers in 2025 will have most relevant facts in their memory banks. For example, they would be able to download everything that is in Wikipedia. If they are able to connect to the Internet, then they would be able to learn from other computers. Sharing enormous banks of knowledge could be done in micro-seconds, versus years for humans. The end result is that the average computer in 2025 would be typically smarter that the average human and able to learn new information at astonishing rates."
While it's certainly unsettling to think that machines could learn information quicker than us, that's not the real danger. Instead, we're rapidly approaching an event know as the Singularity:
"[There will be]a point in time when intelligent machines exceed the cognitive intelligence of all humans combined, [and that] will occur between 2040-2045. This projection is based on extrapolating Moores law, as well as reading the opinions of my colleagues in AI research. Respected futurists like Ray Kurzweil and James Martin both project the singularity to occur around 2045."
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Scientists have created artificial intelligence software that uses photos to locate documents on the Internet with far greater accuracy than ever before.
The new system, which was tested on photos and is now being applied to videos, shows for the first time that a machine learning algorithm for image recognition and retrieval is accurate and efficient enough to improve large-scale document searches online.
The system developed by researchers at Dartmouth College, Tecnalia Research and Innovation and Microsoft Research Cambridge, uses pixel data in images and potentially video rather than just text to locate documents.
It learns to recognise the pixels associated with a search phrase by studying the results from text-based image search engines.
The knowledge gleaned from those results can then be applied to other photos without tags or captions, making for more accurate document search results.
Images abound on the Internet and our approach means theyll no longer be ignored during document retrieval, said Associate Professor Lorenzo Torresani, co-author of the study.
Over the last 30 years, the Web has evolved from a small collection of mostly text documents to a modern, gigantic, fast-growing multimedia dataset, where nearly every page includes multiple pictures or videos. When a person looks at a Web page, she immediately gets the gist of it by looking at the pictures in it, said Torresani.
Yet, surprisingly, all existing popular search engines, such as Google or Bing, strip away the information contained in the photos and use exclusively the text of Web pages to perform the document retrieval.
Our study is the first to show that modern machine vision systems are accurate and efficient enough to make effective use of the information contained in image pixels to improve document search, Torresani added.
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Technological advances in artificial intelligence (robots) will make 50 percent of occupations redundant by 2025. Workers and companies need to prepare now for the future shift.
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Advances in artificial intelligence (also known as robotics) are taking over the workplace and will make 50 percent of occupations redundant by 2025, according to a new report by the real estate consulting firm CBRE.
The CBRE report, titled Fast Forward 2030: The Future of Work and the Workplace, quotes a 2013 Oxford Martin School study that predicted that nearly half of American jobs are vulnerable to computerization by 2025.
Customer work, process work and vast swatches of middle management will simply 'disappear,' according to a new report by consulting firm CBRE and China-based Genesis, stated The Daily Mail.
But CBRE is also quick to point out that losing occupations does not necessarily mean losing jobs just changing what people do.
There will also be a revolution in the traditional workplace, the report says: The rows of desk and mazes of cubicles we have today will be mostly gone by 2030. Not because they are not fit for purpose, but simply because that purpose will no longer exist, reported Human Resources Online.
The future workplace will be designed around activity-based working. This was defined by a variety of quiet retreats as well as collaborative settings, best suited for work at that particular moment in other words, places to work, not workplaces, continued Human Resources Online.
Citing the Oxford study, the New Zealand Herald lists 20 jobs at highest risk of being replaced by robots. Here is the top five: telemarketers, title examiners, sewage workers, mathematical technicians and insurance writers.
In order to prepare for the occupational shift, employees need to be creatively and socially intelligent, CBRE stated.
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A Washington-based start-up that uses artificial intelligence to predict the outcome of legislation has received US$7 million in funding from investors that include Singapore's Temasek Holdings and the Winklevoss twins, made famous from their lawsuits against Facebook, the Washington Post reported on Thursday.
FiscalNote, founded by a US entrepreneur, says it uses data-mining software and artificial intelligence to predict the fate of the bills proposed by state legislatures and by Congress each year with 94 per cent accuracy, said the newspaper.
"We will be utilising the resources for international growth and product expansion," said founder Tim Hwang, 22. "We will be bolstering our engineering team in addition to looking at expanding our sales and marketing operations, domestically and abroad."
The investing was led by several overseas funds including Visionnaire Ventures, a joint fund between Taizo Son and Temasek, the newspaper said. Early investors in the start-up include Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban and former America Online chairman Steve Case.
Hwang, who volunteered on Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, co-founded the company in 2013 with boyhood friends Jonathan Chen and Gerald Yao, said the paper. Chen became chief technology officer and Yao is chief strategy officer, it added.
The company, headquartered in Washington city, has more than 30 clients, including Uber, Planned Parenthood, the New Balance shoe and apparel company, Ally Financial, Allergan, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Republican and Democratic governors associations.
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