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Google acquires artificial intelligence company DeepMind

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Google has acquired DeepMind Technologies, an artificial intelligence company in London, reportedly for US$400 million.

A Google representative confirmed the deal Sunday via email, but said the companys isnt providing any additional information at this time.

News website Re/code said in a report on Sunday that Google was paying $400 million for the company, founded by games prodigy and neuroscientist Demis Hassabis, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman.

The company claims on its website that it combines the best techniques from machine learning and systems neuroscience to build powerful general-purpose learning algorithms. It said its first commercial applications are in simulations, e-commerce and games.

Google announced this month it was paying $3.2 billion in cash to acquire Nest, a maker of smart smoke alarms and thermostats, in what is seen as a bid to expand into the connected home market. It also acquired in January a security firm called Impermium, to boost its expertise in countering spam and abuse.

The Internet giant said on a research site that much of its work on language, speech, translation, and visual processing relies on machine learning and artificial intelligence. In all of those tasks and many others, we gather large volumes of direct or indirect evidence of relationships of interest, and we apply learning algorithms to generalize from that evidence to new cases of interest, it said.

In May, Google launched a Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab, hosted by NASAs Ames Research Center. The Universities Space Research Association was to invite researchers around the world to share time on the quantum computer from D-Wave Systems, to study how quantum computing can advance machine learning.

John Ribeiro covers outsourcing and general technology breaking news from India for The IDG News Service. More by John Ribeiro

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Google buys British artificial intelligence firm DeepMind

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Technology news website Re/code, which first reported the deal, said the price was $400 million (242m), which would make it Google's largest European acquisition so far. Other reports suggest the acquisition price was closer to $500 million.

The company uses general-purpose learning algorithms for applications such as simulations, e-commerce and games, according to its website.

Major venture capitalist firms Horizons Ventures and Founders Fund are invested in the company. Skype and Kazaa developer Jaan Tallinn was also an early investor and an advisor to the company.

Google, which is working on projects including self-driving cars and robots, has become increasingly focused on artificial intelligence in recent years.

In 2012, the internet giant hired Ray Kurzweil, considered one of the leading minds in the field, and in May it announced a partnership with NASA and several universities to launch the Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab.

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Osmar Zaiane Artificial Intelligence Part I Tech and Future of Medicine Course Winter 2014 – Video

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Dr. Osmar Zaiane presents Problems and Perils of AI Part I on January 21, 2014 in the Technology and Future of Medicine course at the University of Alberta i...

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Android app claims to use artificial intelligence to fight cyber threats

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A SECURTIY UPSTART called Zimperium has launched mobile software that learns from smartphones to fend off malicious cyber attacks.

Claiming to be the first security software to be powered by artificial intelligence (AI), the app is called zIPS, with the "IPS" standing for "intrusion prevention system". The aim of the AI is to better spot malware before it causes harm or spreads to other devices.

The zIPS software works whether the smartphone is offline or online and can protect against malicious apps, such as those that can self-modify, and network attacks like a "man in the middle" attack where a hacker intercepts data being sent between one user and another.

"With zIPS, corporations will now have the opportunity to use [bring your own device] as an advantage to their security. zIPS is the first security solution that can combat modern cyber-attacks on mobile," said Zimperium's founder and CEO Zuk Avraham. "There is already evidence of attacks that are happening to infiltrate organisations, which only zIPS can prevent."

Prior to working on the Android app, Avraham worked as a security researcher for the Israeli Defense Forces and Samsung electronics before setting up Zimperium in response to what he thinks is a poor selection of good mobile security software.

According to MIT Technology Review, Zimperium said that there have as yet been no programs that can detect, notify and protect against cyber attacks deployed through mobile devices.

The zIPS Android app has arrived in the Google Play store for all Android devices at a time when malware on Android is at an all time high.

Last year, Trend Micro warned that Google's Android mobile operating system is so beset by cyber criminals creating malicious apps that the malware was on track to hit the million mark before the end of 2013.

The firm said that this was attributable to hackers seeking to exploit Android's growing global user base.

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Artificial intelligence revisited

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Ever thought of what would it feel like to live during the age of the gold rush? Digging hard, excitedly looking for gold. Miners get envious when others find gold, causing them to dig more furiously, determined to strike gold themselves. What happens, though, when someone hits a rock that looks exactly like gold, but really isnt? All the miners get curious. They all wonder, will the outside world take this for gold? One brave chap goes and markets it. Lo and behold! The world likes it! Now the miners start scavenging for this rock. In that, they forget their quest for the real gold. Except, maybe, a few grumpy miners who found the first gold.

Back in the 80s, after Steve Jobs brought about the personal computer revolution, computer engineers began running around like miners in a gold rush. But, there is one other endeavor I want to point out today: The quest for artificial intelligence, the quest to duplicate the human mind or, if I may, the quest for real artificial intelligence.

Douglas Hofstadter, a Ph.D. in Physics at the University of Oregon, won the Pulitzer prize in 1980 for his seminal book Gdel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. The book, also known as GEB, sprung from his summer excursion in 1972. While camping around in forests and besides lakes, he thought about thinking itself. He thought about the brain and its wondrous ability to create an abstract concept called thought. He aligned his reasoning with self evaluating mathematical systems and realized that there lay an answer in Kurt Gdels 1931 mathematical proof that mathematical systems could generate statements not just about numbers but about itself. Hofstadters was the first quest for real artificial intelligence in the history of mankind.

GEB introduced the field of artificial intelligence, an inter-disciplinary study of logic, math, cognition and neuroscience. The miners had started looking for gold, digging furiously.

IBM was one such miner. Relentless in its search for artificial intelligence, its stronghold in the computer industry worked to its advantage as a computer could only perform mathematical calculations of that cadre.

In 1988, IBM undertook a project called Candide. Candide started by accepting defeat on the path set forward by Hofstadter, deeming the problem of constructing mathematical systems on understanding the constructs of language, semantics and symmetry as too complex. Instead, they found a rock that looked just like gold. They called it machine learning.

Machine learning is so similar to the way a child learns that it is a surprise they dont call it human learning. The underlying concept is that of learning by analogy. If a mathematical system is trained with huge amounts of data, the system learns the patterns and will predict an outcome based on the patterns it sees. This is exactly how a baby learns a language.

But heres why it is not the real deal. A fully-grown human brain can do more than a babys brain. Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there, Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, said in his Ted Talk. That is the physics approach. That is the exact opposite of reasoning by analogy.

The problem with analogies is that they are limiting. Analogies can only help one hop about horizontally. But it requires reasoning to dive deeper down vertically. A system that works by analogy will be able to predict, by training through huge amounts of data or by evaluating all permutations and combinations, that Obama is an important person or that I use one in a plural sense in my writing. But it will not be able to discover gravity, nor general relativity.

Yes, IBM marketed it, and the world liked it! A lot of swag that the information technology world has is accredited to this move of IBM. It enables weather forecast, auto spell-check, search engines, Siri and Deep Blue the IBM computer that beat Gary Kasparov in the famous chess game of 1997.

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Android app to use artificial intelligence to spot malware

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January 24, 2014 - 20:51 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - A securtiy startup called Zimperium has launched mobile software that learns from smartphones to fend off malicious cyber attacks, The Inquirer reports.

Claiming to be the first security software to be powered by artificial intelligence (AI), the app is called zIPS, with the "IPS" standing for "intrusion prevention system". The aim of the AI is to better spot malware before it causes harm or spreads to other devices.

The zIPS software works whether the smartphone is offline or online and can protect against malicious apps, such as those that can self-modify, and network attacks like a "man in the middle" attack where a hacker intercepts data being sent between one user and another, according to The Inquirer.

"With zIPS, corporations will now have the opportunity to use [bring your own device] as an advantage to their security. zIPS is the first security solution that can combat modern cyber-attacks on mobile," said Zimperium's founder and CEO Zuk Avraham. "There is already evidence of attacks that are happening to infiltrate organizations, which only zIPS can prevent."

Prior to working on the Android app, Avraham worked as a security researcher for the Israeli Defense Forces and Samsung electronics before setting up Zimperium in response to what he thinks is a poor selection of good mobile security software.

According to MIT Technology Review, Zimperium said that there have as yet been no programs that can detect, notify and protect against cyber attacks deployed through mobile devices.

The zIPS Android app has arrived in the Google Play store for all Android devices at a time when malware on Android is at an all time high, The Inquirer says.

Last year, Trend Micro warned that Google's Android mobile operating system is so beset by cyber criminals creating malicious apps that the malware was on track to hit the million mark before the end of 2013.

The firm said that this was attributable to hackers seeking to exploit Android's growing global user base.

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Artificial Intelligence Part 1 (Re-filmed in HD!) (A Halo 4 Machinima) – Video

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