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QUINCY, Ill. (WGEM) - After months of planning, a weather balloon was released Tuesday from Quincy Regional Airport.
Members of the Quincy University Astronomy Club launched the balloon with a capsule attached to it. It also had a GoPro camera and a GPS tracking device inside.
"At 60 thousand feet the GoPro should capture the vastness and the blackness of space," Astronomy Club Member Damien Olejarski said. "We should be able to get a shot of the curvature of the earth.
"It's going to be above pretty much every single cloud layer and we're just trying to get a hold of that footage and be able to find it," Olejarski added.
Olejarski says the capsule could land a couple miles away or a couple states away, but the hope is the GPS will send back signals allowing them to track it down and find it.
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An international team of astronomers has made a measurement of a distant neutron star that is one million times more precise than the previous world's best.
The researchers were able to use the interstellar medium, the 'empty' space between stars and galaxies that is made up of sparsely spread charged particles, as a giant lens to magnify and look closely at the radio wave emission from a small rotating neutron star.
This technique yielded the highest resolution measurement ever achieved, equivalent to being able to see the double-helix structure of our genes from the Moon!
"Compared to other objects in space, neutron stars are tiny only tens of kilometres in diameter so we need extremely high resolution to observe them and understand their physics," Dr Jean-Pierre Macquart from the Curtin University node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth said.
Dr Macquart, a member of the ARC Centre of Excellence for All-sky Astrophysics (CAASTRO), said neutron stars were particularly interesting objects to study, as some of them called pulsars gave off pulsed radio waves whose beams swept across telescopes at regular intervals.
"More than 45 years since astronomers discovered pulsars, we still don't understand the mechanism by which they emit radio wave pulses," he said.
The researchers found they could use the distortions of these pulse signals as they passed through the turbulent interstellar medium to reconstruct a close in view of the pulsar from thousands of individual sub-images of the pulsar.
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Teller spoke at the annual tech conference in his role as the director (or Captain, according to his official title at Google) of Google X, a semi-secret lab dedicated to creating science fiction-sounding solutions that improve existing technologies by a factor of 10. Google Glass, the self-driving car and Flux, a company that announced $8 million of funding on Tuesday, all started as moonshot projects in the Google X labs.
With a sky-blue Google Glass strapped to his face, Teller told the attendees a little more about Google Xs mission, future goals, and the privacy concerns surrounding Google Glass.
Were excited about how tech can be used to get tech out of the way, he said. Technology needs to be more like anti-lock brake systems in cars, which do exactly what we need them to do, when we need them, without us realizing they are even present. [It can] make us feel more human, not less human, more in the moment, not disconnected.
Case in point: Google Glass, which Teller said was founded on the idea that a smart phone would work best if people didnt have to carry one around all day or poke at them with their fingertips.
But on the flip side of convenience are concerns about safety and privacy. The potential ability of Google Glass to surreptitiously take pictures and record video creeps out many people and has already gotten the so-called smart glasses banned by casinos, strip clubs and movie theaters. Several states have proposed banning use of Google Glass while driving.
Teller admits these are legitimate concerns, but notes Google Glass is far from the first to push the privacy boundary.
I grant that people are generally uncomfortable with how fast privacy issues are changing in the world, but Google Glass is not going to move the needle on that, Teller said, noting how cameras are already ubiquitous in our lives and mentioning a New York Times article from the 1800s that voiced similar privacy concerns when the camera was first invented.
Its true that Google Glass in its current form lights up while recording and is limited to the direction the user is facing, making it the worlds worst spy camera, according to Teller, but what happens when the technology develops and become less obtrusive? one attendee asked. After all, thats one of the primary goals of Google X, which is working on a smart contact lens.
Teller more or less evaded the question, saying that the goal of moonshot projects is to create a positive impact in the world and not to ruin privacy. The contact lens was designed with the purpose of providing an easier method for diabetics to monitor glucose, he said, and the self-driving car was built to solve the problem of 30,000 car-related deaths in the U.S. every year. There is also Project Loon, a Google X moonshot to provide Wi-Fi to isolated parts of the world via a network of balloons.
Those are just the few projects Teller could mention. While Google X accepts submissions for moonshot ideas, the Captain said hes not allowed to talk about most of what the lab is doing.
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Artificial-intelligence (AI) research is now progressing rapidly. Recent landmarks such as self-driving cars, a computer winning at Jeopardy! and the digital personal assistants Siri, Google Now and Cortana are merely symptoms of an IT arms race fuelled by unprecedented investments and building on an increasingly mature theoretical foundation. Such achievements will probably pale against what the coming decades will bring.
The potential benefits are huge; everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools that AI may provide, but the eradication of war, disease, and poverty would be high on anyone's list. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history.
Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks. In the near term, world militaries are considering autonomous-weapon systems that can choose and eliminate targets; the UN and Human Rights Watch have advocated a treaty banning such weapons. In the medium term, as emphasised by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee in The Second Machine Age, AI may transform our economy to bring both great wealth and great dislocation.
Looking further ahead, there are no fundamental limits to what can be achieved: there is no physical law precluding particles from being organised in ways that perform even more advanced computations than the arrangements of particles in human brains. An explosive transition is possible, although it might play out differently from in the movie: as Irving Good realised in 1965, machines with superhuman intelligence could repeatedly improve their design even further, triggering what Vernor Vinge called a "singularity" and Johnny Depp's movie character calls "transcendence".
Johnny Depp plays a scientist who is shot by Luddites in 'Transcendence' (Alcon) One can imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand. Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all.
So, facing possible futures of incalculable benefits and risks, the experts are surely doing everything possible to ensure the best outcome, right? Wrong. If a superior alien civilisation sent us a message saying, "We'll arrive in a few decades," would we just reply, "OK, call us when you get here we'll leave the lights on"? Probably not but this is more or less what is happening with AI. Although we are facing potentially the best or worst thing to happen to humanity in history, little serious research is devoted to these issues outside non-profit institutes such as the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, the Future of Humanity Institute, the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, and the Future of Life Institute. All of us should ask ourselves what we can do now to improve the chances of reaping the benefits and avoiding the risks.
Stephen Hawking is the director of research at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at Cambridge and a 2012 Fundamental Physics Prize laureate for his work on quantum gravity. Stuart Russell is a computer-science professor at the University of California, Berkeley and a co-author of 'Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach'. Max Tegmark is a physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the author of 'Our Mathematical Universe'. Frank Wilczek is a physics professor at the MIT and a 2004 Nobel laureate for his work on the strong nuclear force.
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The latest Silicon Valley arms race is a contest to build the best artificial brains. Facebook Inc., Google Inc. and other leading tech companies are jockeying to hire top scientists in the field of artificial intelligence, while spending heavily on a quest to make computers think more like people.
They're not building humanoid robots - not yet, anyway. But a number of tech giants and startups are trying to build computer systems that understand what you want, perhaps before you knew you wanted it.
"It's important to position yourself in this market for the next decade," said Yann LeCun, a leading New York University researcher hired to run Facebook's new A.I. division in December. "A lot is riding on artificial intelligence and content analysis, and on being smarter about how people and computers interact."
Artificial intelligence programs can already recognize images and translate human speech. Tech researchers want to build systems that can match the human brain's ability to handle more complex challenges - to intuitively predict traffic conditions while steering automated cars or drones, for example, or to grasp the intent of written texts and spoken messages, so they can better anticipate what kind of information, including ads, their users want to see.
Facebook has recruited several well-regarded A.I. scientists, including one from Google, in recent months. Google has been working on artificial intelligence for several years, enlisting prominent researchers such as Stanford's Andrew Ng and the University of Toronto's Geoffrey Hinton to help build computer systems known as "neural networks," which are capable of teaching themselves.
But in a sign it wants to do more, Google paid a reported $400 million in January to buy DeepMind, a British startup said to be working on artificial intelligence for image recognition, e-commerce recommendations and video games. DeepMind had also drawn interest from Facebook. In March, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg invested personally in Vicarious, a Silicon Valley startup working on software that can recognize - and draw - images of animals or other things.
"In the last 18 months, every venture capital firm I know has made at least one investment" in artificial intelligence, robotics or related sectors, said Raj Singh, CEO of Tempo AI, which makes a "smart calendar" mobile app that acts like a personal assistant. Tempo uses technology from SRI, the Menlo Park, Calif., think tank that developed key elements of Apple's Siri and has spun off several artificial intelligence startups.
Competition among digital personal assistants is especially heated: While each works differently, Tempo is vying with Siri, Google Now and Microsoft's new Cortana. Through a series of upgrades, each has tried to outdo the others in providing reminders and anticipating questions by analyzing relevant data from users' calendars, contact lists and email.
The ultimate goal is something closer to "Samantha," the personable operating system voiced by actress Scarlett Johansson in the film "Her," though it undoubtedly will be more businesslike.
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GRAPEVINE, Texas, May 6, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Tom Lewis, CEO of SmartAction, was invited to give the keynote address on the future of artificial intelligence in customer service at the J.D. Power 2014 Contact Center Solutions Roundtable of Champions. Many view Lewis as a customer service thought leader and a visionary for artificial intelligence and his company SmartAction is emerging as a leader in both. The event was a gathering of corporate leaders in the contact center arena and the roundtable served as a forum for fostering ideas that will shape the strategies, tactics, and tools of tomorrow's customer experience.
In his keynote address, "An Earthquake in Customer Service," Lewis explains how a series of trends in technology are leading to drastic changes in both customer service and business operations. Drawing on industry data, cultural events, and popular customer service topics such as Big Data, omni-channel, and automation, Lewis illustrates how technological innovations and a shift in consumer demands are changing the way business, and especially the contact center, will need to evolve. The keynote painted a remarkable picture of a not-so-distant future predicated on Artificial Intelligence and set the stage for the theme of this year's event, which was Reach the Next Level of Customer Experience Excellence.
"I strongly believe artificial intelligence will drive the future of customer service and I trust the audience walked away with a better understanding of how AI will impact their future," stated Lewis. He continued, "It was a privilege to be given the opportunity to speak and I appreciate J.D. Power inviting me to share my ideas at such a distinguished event."
A video of the keynote address can be viewed at http://www.smartaction.com/jd-power-keynote
About SmartActionSmartAction is a leader in artificial intelligence for call automation, providing cloud-hosted speech IVR services for medium to Fortune 500-sized companies. Our state-of-the-art solution is grounded in purpose-driven artificial intelligence that utilizes natural language speech capabilities to create conversational interactions as a means to accomplishing self-service activity. Commonly used for providing customer service, our Intelligent Voice Automation technology allows companies to handle complex customer interactions with an intuitive, resourceful, and cognizant AI agent.
Learn more at http://www.smartaction.com or call 888-882-9520.
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