Entrepreneur Lars Hard feels he has seen the future of search, information gathering and the web in general, and it is artificial intelligence. Computational intelligence, to put it more succinctly: the ability to gather information or find your destination on the web faster and more efficiently with an artificial search partner that can predict what ...
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Are you human or a machine? Prove it, by passing the Turing Test a test of the ability of a machine to exhibit intelligent behavior.
Turings original imitation game had nothing to do with artificial intelligence. It was a simple party game with three players a man, a woman, and a judge of either sex. The judge sits in a room apart from the man and woman, and has to guess which is which from nothing but written communication.
The standard interpretation of the Turing Test today, however, replaces one of the participants with a machine which has to imitate intelligence. In this case, the judge has to decide which of the pair is the person, and which is the machine. The computer is successful, and passes the test, if as Turing puts it the interrogator decide[s] wrongly as often when the game is played [with the computer] as he does when the game is played between a man and a woman.
Theres a bit of debate over whether the computer and the person are both supposed to try to trick the interrogator into making an incorrect decision or not. In the original imitation game, one of the pair tries to trick the judge while the other does not, meaning that both will be pretending to be the same gender. The common interpretation of the Turing Test today, however, is one of imitation rather than trickery.
One aspect of the test that Turing never made clear is whether the judge should know whether theres a computer in play at all. Serious attempts at passing the test would almost certainly require a double-blind control, where the judge repeats the experiment multiple times sometimes with a pair of humans, sometimes with the human and the computer, and sometimes with two computers.
While the Turing Test has been lauded for its simplicity and its ability to test across a wide range of intellectual tasks (natural language, reason, knowledge and learning can all be tested), it has also been criticized for a number of reasons. Firstly, the Turing Test doesnt directly test intelligence. Instead it merely tests how much a computer can behave like a human being.
Thats an important distinction because some human behavior is unintelligent, and there are plenty of intelligent behaviors that humans dont do. If, for example, a computer solved a mathematical problem that humans dont have the intellectual capability to do, then it wouldnt make it unintelligent but it would make it fail the Turing Test.
A second issue is that simulated intelligence isnt the same thing as real intelligence. A machine that can pass the Turing Test could just be following a large list of mechanical rules. As such, the Turing Test doesnt test whether a machine can genuinely think. The counter-argument to that is that humans could well just be following a large list of mechanical rules, and then youre deep into philosophy of consciousness and intentionality.
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REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire -06/18/12)- Rocket Fuel, the leading provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions for digital marketers, today announced it has been named one of the Bay Area's Top Workplaces.
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REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire -06/18/12)- Rocket Fuel, the leading provider of artificial-intelligence advertising solutions for digital marketers, today announced that company co-founder and CEO George John will join a panel at the Stifel Nicolaus 2012 Internet & Media Conference at the New York Palace Hotel.
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18 June 2012 Last updated at 01:27 By Vint Cerf Turing Award winner / Chief internet evangelist, Google
The life and achievements of Alan Turing - the mathematician, codebreaker, computer pioneer, artificial intelligence theoretician, and gay/cultural icon - are being celebrated to mark what would have been his 100th birthday on 23 June.
To mark the occasion the BBC has commissioned a series of essays to run across the week, starting with this overview of Turing's legacy by Vint Cerf.
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I've worked in computing, and more specifically computer networking, nearly all my life. It's an industry in a constant state of innovation, always pushing beyond the limits of current capability.
It is sometimes said that "broadband" is whatever network speed you don't have, yet!
Things we take for granted today were, not that long ago, huge technological breakthroughs.
Although I've been lucky enough in my career to be involved in the development of the internet, I've never lost sight of the role played by my predecessors, without whose pioneering labour, so much would not have been accomplished.
This year, in the centenary of his birth, there is one man in particular who is deservedly the focus of attention: Alan Turing.
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Artificial intelligence could help us better understand the effects of psychedelic drugs, by analysing narrative reports written by people who are using them.
Scientists barely understand how existing psychedelic drugs work to alter perception and intensify emotions, let alone keep pace with new ones flooding the market often sold as "bath salts" or "herbal incense".
Enter artificial intelligence. Matthew Baggott of the University of Chicago and colleagues used machine-learning algorithms a type of artificial intelligence that can learn about a given subject by analysing massive amounts of data to examine 1000 reports uploaded to the website Erowid by people who had taken mind-altering drugs.
They found that the frequency with which certain words appeared could identify the drug taken with 51 per cent accuracy on average compared with 10 per cent by chance. MDMA (ecstasy) usage was identified with an accuracy of 87 per cent.
The drug DMT (N,N-dimethyltryptamine) acts on the brain in different ways from the drug Salvia (Salvia divinorum), but the algorithms inferred that both elicit a similar response. This might be because both are typically smoked and so enter the bloodstream quickly, says Baggott. "Smoked psychedelic drugs may 'hit' people hard and fast in a similar way."
Baggott hopes the work will aid research into the effects of new and existing drugs. "You need to start with some theories about the effects of a drug," he says. "Machine learning can help us form those theories."
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Upstream Commerce today unveiled the latest tool in its Retail Intelligence Suite -- Assortment Intelligence -- a powerful tool allowing retailers to track assortment changes at competitors' websites in real-time, and adjust their own product-mix accordingly.
The Upstream Commerce Retail Intelligence Suite is a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that uses advanced artificial intelligence, semantic analysis, data-mining, and image-recognition algorithms to give retailers comprehensive, real-time competitive price monitoring and analysis, as well as product and assortment intelligence.
With the new Assortment Intelligence tool, retailers can view, compare and analyze the overlap between their own and their competitors assortments; identify competitors products that they dont currently carry (but may wish to add); and identify products which they may currently carry exclusively (for which they could elect to command higher prices).
Historically, retailers have relied on personal experience and manual tracking to optimize their assortment relative to their competitors. The manual approach is no longer practical in todays intensely competitive, highly dynamic markets.
Increasingly savvy consumers are forcing retailers to alter pricing strategies, so it is imperative for multichannel retailers to be opportunistic and flexible with their pricing so they dont miss opportunities, said Gartner research vice president Kevin Sterneckert. Retailers today need every technological advantage they can get to track competitors pricing and assortment in real time.
Assortment composition is far too critical a merchandising decision to leave to the non-real-time, highly variable nature of human assessment, judgment, and action, said Upstream Commerce CEO, Amos Peleg. Assortment Intelligence transforms classic manual merchandising by giving retail owners, executives, managers and buyers actionable and timely product assortment insights.
Assortment Intelligence, the newest tool in the Upstream Commerce Retail Intelligence Suite, builds on the company's already advanced pricing intelligence capabilities to expand the arsenal retailers can employ to compete more effectively and increase their sales and profit margins.
Upstream Commerce boasts an impressive number of customers worldwide, including some who top the Internet Retailer 500 list. The company currently tracks millions of products, and has billions of quality intelligence data points going back two years in some verticals.
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BROSSARD, QUEBEC, CANADA--(Marketwire -06/11/12)- DIAGNOS inc. ("DIAGNOS" or the "Corporation") (ADK.V), a leader in the use of artificial intelligence ("AI") and advanced knowledge extraction techniques, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Philip Renaud as Executive Chairman of the Company's Board of Directors.
Mr. Renaud has served as Chairman of the DIAGNOS Board of Directors since December 2009. As Executive Chairman, Mr. Renaud will take an active role in the Company and will continue to work closely with DIAGNOS President and Chief Executive Officer, Andre Larente, and the management team, in executing the business plans for the Company's lead products CARA (Computer Assisted Retinal Analysis) and CARDS (Computer Aided Resources Detection System). He will also focus more directly on strategic planning, corporate development and corporate governance.
"We are pleased that Philip has agreed to serve as Executive Chairman at this critical point in the Company's growth," said Andre Larente, President and Chief Executive Officer of DIAGNOS. "I have worked very closely with Philip over the past several years, and he has been intimately involved with the management team. Philip has a long record of success in the business community, and his insights and extensive executive-level experience will continue to be tremendous assets as we move forward with our growth and development initiatives."
"It is a privilege to have been asked by my fellow Board members to serve as Executive Chairman of DIAGNOS at this important stage of the Company's development," said Mr. Renaud. "I look forward to working with Andre and the management team as we continue to advance and work together to build value for shareholders."
Mr. Renaud is Managing Director of Church Advisors, a European investment advisory firm involved in private financings. A graduate of Franklin College of Switzerland with a Bachelor of Arts in international financial management, Mr. Renaud has been instrumental in securing many private equity financings and has an extensive European and North American network. Mr. Renaud is also Chairman of Kane Biotech inc., a biotechnology company and Director of Dia Bras Exploration Inc. and Yorbeau Resources Inc., two public minerals exploration companies.
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Founded in 1998, DIAGNOS is a publicly traded Canadian corporation (ADK.V), with a mission to commercialize technologies combining contextual imaging and traditional data mining thereby improving decision making processes. DIAGNOS offers products, services, and solutions to clients in a variety of fields including healthcare, natural resources, and entertainment.
DIAGNOS can count on a multidisciplinary team that includes professionals in geophysics, geology, Artificial Intelligence, mathematics, as well as remote sensing and image interpretation. The Corporation's objective is to develop a royalty stream by significantly enhancing and participating in the exploration success rate of mining. For further information, please visit our Website at http://www.diagnos.com.
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The Singularity Summit is the premier event on cutting-edge technologies including robotics, regenerative medicine, artificial intelligence, brain-computer interfacing, and more.San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) June 11, 2012 The Singularity Summit is now in its sixth year of bi-coastal annual conferences and the 2012 edition will be held at the Nob Hill Masonic Center in San Francisco on October 13-14 ...
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At Eurosatory, MASA Group (Hall 5, Booth #J108), a leading developer of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Modeling & Simulation (M&S) software for the defense, public safety, emergency management, serious games and games-related markets, announces that the Centro de Entrenamiento Operativo Tctico Simulado (CEOTAS, or Center for Simulated Tactical Operational Training) of the Ecuadorian Army will start using MASA SWORD, the companys automated, aggregated constructive simulation software for efficient training and analysis.
SWORD helps users develop and deploy advanced and highly realistic scenarios for the training of decision-makers in command posts and crisis centers, as well as for the analysis of military doctrines and emergency procedures.
The CEOTAS is a technological resource that is being used as an instrument of studies for basic and advanced courses by the students of the Ecuadorian Army headquarters. Its aim is that the academies of war of the Ecuadorian armed forces use it for their improvement processes, and ultimately as a support tool in scientific and technological environments for public safety and national defense.
We selected SWORD because this is a cost-effective off-the-shelf aggregated constructive simulation that we can immediately apply to the training of our commanding officers for military missions as well as global safety missions, Colonel Pablo Carrillo, CEOTAS Project Manager, Ecuadorian Army, declared.
We are particularly proud that MASA SWORD has been selected by the Ecuadorian Army. This decision shows the growing momentum enjoyed by SWORD in Latin America, commented Juan-Pablo Torres, MASA Groups President and CEO. This new customer adoption illustrates how SWORD can be used by progressive and cost-conscious military organizations on a global basis for trainings related to military missions and to Operations Other Than War.
The deployment of SWORD at CEOTAS will be performed starting this month by Latinmedia International LLC, one of MASAs value added resellers in Latin America, and a regional leader in the areas of simulation and visualization in real time. This deployment is the first phase of a long-term project that implies a large-scale deployment to take place in the coming months.
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MASA Group (MASA) is a global company focused on the development of Artificial Intelligence-based Modeling & Simulation (M&S) software for the Defense, Homeland Security, Emergency Management, Serious Games and Games Development markets. A trusted developer of cutting-edge AI technology for over fifteen years, MASA has founded its success on products that combine scalability, adaptability and low cost of ownership, with a strong standards-driven approach to technology.
MASA SWORD and MASA LIFE are uniquely designed to simplify and optimize the implementation of Artificial Intelligence capabilities for automating and driving simulated behaviors.
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Russian television reporter Vladimir Lenski interviews an android of science fiction author Philip K. Dick at NextFest in Chicago in 2005. Photo: Reuters
In 2005, David Hanson left Philip K. Dick's head on a plane. Hanson, a roboticist, was en route to Google to present his team's project- a painstakingly crafted android replication of the author, who died in 1982-when he changed planes and left behind a duffel bag.
The robot's head surfaced at a couple of airports around the American West before disappearing in Washington state, never to be found again.
Dick, the author of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - the source material for Blade Runner - was both deeply engaged with issues of artificial intelligence, and deeply paranoid. That is to say, he was the science fiction writer for whom being transformed into an android, and then having your head lost to the labyrinthine bureaucracy of an airline, might be considered most fitting.
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An android of science fiction author Philip K. Dick is displayed at NextFest in Chicago in 2005.
In How To Build an Android, David F. Dufty explains how Dick was made into a machine by an endearingly nerdy group of roboticists. Dufty, who observed the development of the robot while a postdoc, uses the unlikely story to meditate on the state of robotics and artificial intelligence. In particular, he describes the peculiar way humans interact with machines - and what it takes to make us feel as though a robot is alive.
The Philip K. Dick project began in 2004. Hanson, then a graduate student at the University of Dallas, brought an artistic background to robotics, with his invention of a (relatively) true-to-life synthetic skin he named "Frubber." One of his early robot heads was modeled on himself, a couple of others on then-girlfriends. K-Bot, based on a now-ex named Kristen, displayed then-remarkable ability to express emotion. (Making a robot head out of your beloved is the futuristic equivalent of a sonnet, it seems.)
At a conference, he got to know roboticists from the University of Memphis who were working on an educational program called AutoTutor. If they combined Hanson's well-crafted heads and AutoTutor's basic conversational abilities, the roboticists decided, they could create an android - and why not craft it in the form of a science fiction writer preoccupied with the line between man and machine? (In the book, a graduate student who jokes about calling it "the Dick head" is gently corrected.)
Hanson is a bit of a robo-rebel: He argues that the widely accepted principal of the Uncanny Valley - that as machines look more realistic, they become more unsettling - has no basis in reality. This unorthodox position buoys his position that developing humanlike robots is vital, as it will allow for better interaction with people. But not everyone in robotics agrees that humanoid forms are a worthwhile pursuit, given the significant obstacles: Locomotion on two legs is incredibly challenging to replicate, as is the human face. There are further divides over how a robot should be able to think or act.
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IEA-AIE 2012 Event Full Name: Twenty Fifth International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems Date: Sat, 06/09/2012 (All day) to Tue, 06/12/2012 (All day) Where: Dalian China Deadline: Fri, 11/11/2011 (All day)
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SUNNYVALE, Calif., June 7, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking over the Internet, one small business site at a time. Introduced today by the Sunnyvale company, Acobot (http://acobot.com) employs advanced AI chat technology to engage website visitors in help chats -- and businesses of all sizes can quickly and easily install Acobot on their sites for free.
If "artificial intelligence" brings to mind Hollywood-style sentient robots bent on destroying humans, it's time to step away from the big screen and instead take a look at Acobot. The robot eliminates the need for in-person live chat support by intuitively answering prospective customers' questions. Acobot learns as it goes, providing better service with each new visit.
Designed by AI researchers, Acobot was created to help website owners answer their visitors' questions 24/7 and, in turn, achieve better sales. The robot takes about three minutes to get up and running; comparable products can take days or even weeks to set up and can cost upwards of $10,000 monthly.
So why make Acobot services freely available? Acobot LLC is, at heart, a company of inventors who are much more interested in finding new ways to solve problems with technology than they are in becoming the next billion-dollar company.
"Acobot gives instant answers with a human touch," stated the founder and CEO, Vic Duan. "Our goal is to give accurate and instant answers to whatever questions our users' site visitors might have. Through AI, Acobot can answer expected and unexpected questions accurately and sometimes even in entertaining ways."
For example, ask Acobot to tell a joke, and the results are unpredictable but invariably humorous. Turn around and ask how the robot works, and Acobot will readily explain. Each answer, regardless of the complexity of the question, is given in less than a second, keeping site visitors engaged and interested in the company for which Acobot is "working."
"People enjoy interacting with Acobot," Duan explained. "They stay on your site longer and end up obtaining more information about your business than they would from a static web page or even a human chat attendant. We're excited to put Acobot to work for businesses everywhere."
Acobot is available now for free and can be added to any website. Learn more, try an Acobot demo and get your own robot at http://acobot.com.
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Founded by Vic Duan on June 1st, 2012, Acobot is a Sunnyvale company dedicated to AI research and development. As a spin-off from its parent company Acosys, which is headquartered in Hong Kong, Acobot is focused on creating and deploying first-to-market technology solutions to common business problems. For more information, visit http://acobot.com.
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During Eurosatory, at booth #J108 in Hall 5 (simulation), MASA Group (MASA), a leading developer of Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based Modeling & Simulation (M&S) software for the defense, public safety, emergency management, serious games and games-related markets, will present the latest version of MASA SWORD, the companys automated, aggregated constructive simulation software for efficient training and analysis.
SWORD helps users develop and deploy advanced and highly realistic scenarios for the training of decision-makers in command posts and crisis centers, as well as for the analysis of military doctrines and emergency procedures.
Through a number of live demonstrations at its booth and at the booth of the DGA (the French defense procurement agency, Hall 5, booth #J269), Eurosatory visitors will see how SWORD brings unprecedented levels of interoperability with GIS, C2/C4ISR systems (e.g Systematics SitaWare Headquarters) and other simulations (e.g Bohemia Interactives VBS2, MKs VR-Forces and Cassidians ORQUE).
Show attendees will also see how the new version of SWORD establishes a defense-security continuum one of the key themes of Eurosatory this year - and emulates civilian-military cooperation. SWORD 5.0 offers defense and public safety organizations and systems integrators worldwide a host of new features and functionalities designed to address modern training and analysis requirements within a context of reduced budgets.
Furthermore, MASA will participate in SimDef 2012, a seminar on simulation for defense applications, organized by the EMA (joint staff of the French armed forces) and by the DGA with the support of the ADIS group.
Simulation has become critical for cost-conscious defense and public safety organizations worldwide. This is one of the reasons why MASA has developed SWORD, an automated and aggregated constructive simulation powered by MASAs innovative artificial-intelligence technology, which enables leaders and decision makers to do more with less," Juan-Pablo Torres, MASA Groups President and CEO, commented. We are looking forward to sharing our software innovations with key industry players at Eurosatory this year. More specifically, we are keenly interested in how they will leverage SWORDs ability to bridge the operational and simulation worlds in order to cost-effectively address the new requirements of the defense-security continuum.
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ScienceDaily (June 6, 2012) Artificial noses have, until now, been used to detect diseases such as urinary tract infection, Helicobacter pylori, tuberculosis, ear, nose and throat conditions and even lung cancer. They have also been clinically tested for use in continuous monitoring of different disease stages.
Now, a multidisciplinary research team with eight European partners is collaborating under a EU-funded project called Bioelectronic Olfactory Neuron Device, dubbed BOND. Their aim is to develop a very sensitive and selective device that can detect and distinguish different types of smells.
This system relies on functionalized electrodes binding to olfactory receptors capable of sending tiny electric signals, which are subsequently detected and amplified. The challenge is to develop whole new arrays of olfactory receptors to process different smells for different diseases.
Its applications are manifold. For example, prostate cancer could be detected through the analysis of urine samples. The project researchers combined artificial intelligence with sensing technologies to design noses that display greater performance than currently available olfactory technology.
The efforts of the EU research consortium to detect diseases through an electronic nose in patients urine are not isolated. Other researchers at the University of Warwick, UK, developed an electronic nose sensing volatile organic compounds from urine as a means to separate patients with diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease and controls.
Artificial noses represent a non-invasive, rapid diagnosis tool, which could allow quick disease screening and ultimately significantly transform diagnostics.
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After decades of trial and error, artificial intelligence applications that aim to understand human language are slowly starting to lose some of their brittleness. Now, a simple mathematical model developed by two psychologists at Stanford University could lead to further improvements, helping transform computers that display the mere veneer of intelligence into machines that truly understand ...
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HELSINKI, Finland, June 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
The board of ZenRobotics Ltd., the Finnish high-tech company specializing in recycling robotics and artificial intelligence, has appointed Mr Juho Malmberg as the company's new CEO. Juho Malmberg will join ZenRobotics on 1 July 2012.
Mr Malmberg's previous positions include e.g. Managing director of Accenture Finland and Executive VP of Customer Experience and Member of the Executive Board, KONE Corporation.
Jorma Eloranta, ZenRobotics's Chairman of the Board: "Juho Malmberg has a strong record in international business at KONE Corporation. Mr Malmberg is known for his analytical but in the same time pragmatic leadership style. In my view, he's a splendid addition to the ZenRobotics dream team."
Juho Malmberg comments: "I take up this position with great enthusiasm. Most successful businesses are driven by a global megatrend. For ZenRobotics, there are actually two: the huge growth of waste around the world and the starting revolution of intelligent robotics. The company's main product, ZenRobotics Recycler, is a revolutionary solution which intensifies recycling globally. The system utilizes robots to reclaim valuable raw materials from a waste stream, for sale. Each kilo of raw materials picked out of the stream also reduces the landfilling costs of the customer", describes Malmberg, with obvious excitement.
The interim CEO of ZenRobotics, Rainer Rehn, resumes his duties as the officer in charge of commercialization.
"I enjoyed my time as the CEO, but I've always felt my true strengths are in the organization of international sales operations. Now I'm back at doing the job that is my true passion", grins a happy Rainer Rehn.
ZenRobotics Ltd. is a Finnish high-end cleantech company, based in Helsinki. In the 24-strong company one in three employee holds a PhD. The company's main product is ZenRobotics Recycler, an AI-controlled robotic recycling system, which reclaims valuable raw materials from waste streams. The system is marketed globally, through a reseller network in place in 49 countries.
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TORONTO (Reuters) - In celebration of Queen Elizabeth's Diamond Jubilee, a mobile app is adding a royal touch to emails, texts and tweets by suggesting words that the British monarch would be most likely to use. SwiftKey is an Android app that uses artificial intelligence to correct and predict words as they are typed. To mark the Queen's 60-year reign, the company released the Queen's English ...
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A rat is smarter than Google. And that's no dig at Google, according to artificial intelligence researchers Yann LeCun and Josh Tenenbaum. The two spoke at the World Science Festival in New York City after the premier of "The Creator: Alan Turing and the Future of Thinking Machines," a trippy arthouse film about 1940s and 1950s artificial intelligence visionary Alan Turing.
The galactic encyclopedia we know as Google is brilliant in many ways for the amount of information it can absorb and shoot back in response to virtually any kind of question. Still, "It's rote learning; there's no understanding," said LeCun, a professor of computer and neural science at New York University.
In terms of computational ability, even the most-powerful computers in the world are just approaching that of an insect, according to LeCun. "I would be happy in my lifetime to build a machine as intelligent as a rat," he said.
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And some of the seemingly amazing things that Google can do, like giving us driving or walking directions nearly instantaneously, use only a basic kind of intelligence called simple planning. "That's very easy," said Tenenbaum, a professor of computational computer science at MIT. "It's not even called it AI anymore. It's just called Google." [ How to Use the New Research Tool in Google Docs ]
Real intelligence, they said, is not just memorizing but using what you've learned to figure out situations you've never experienced, such as the film the men had just seen. "You watch this film and you see images you've never seen before. You may not know anything about the life of this character," Tenenbaum said.
"That whole context of communication intelligence, of getting inside another person just by the data of what they say and you say back, that's the heart of human intelligence," he said.
The two professors are nowhere near that. LeCun, for example, is experimenting with a driving robot that tries to identify the objects around it. He showed a video of what the robot sees how it labels objects like people, trees and roads. It generally gets them right, but often calls trees people, a patch of dirt water, a lamppost a building.
To show what AI researchers are up against, LeCun described the immensity of the human brain based on the latest, albeit very rough, estimates: 100 billion neurons make from 1,000 to 10,000 connections with other neurons and use those connections up to 100 to 1,000 times a second (a pretty high estimate). That's perhaps a quintillion 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 operations happening every second in everyone's head.
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And that's no dig at Google, according to artificial intelligence researchers Yann LeCun and Josh Tenenbaum. The two spoke at the World Science Festival in New York City after the premier of "The Creator: Alan Turing and the Future of Thinking Machines," a trippy arthouse film about 1940s and 1950s artificial intelligence visionary Alan Turing.
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