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The rise of artificial intelligence means we need to focus on the things that make us special

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As cognitive computing or artificial intelligence grows in capability, what skills should humans acquire? According to AlchemyAPI CEO Elliot Turner, we will need to shift our educational focus away from the kind of stuff that computers can do better.

Speaking at Gigaoms Structure Data 2014 show in New York alongside Stephen Gold, the head of sales for IBMs Watson program, Turner said there was still a lot of runway to go before we fleshies find ourselves struggling to find purpose. While systems coming online today are amazingyou can still have a person read a document better than a machine can today, he said.

Weve just got to focus on the things that make us special and move away from this historical view of rote memorization, because thats not going to be as useful a skill, Turner said.

Indeed, natural language recognition is starting to evolve to the point where cognitive computing systems such as Watson can take information and understand it in a learning sense.

Gold said this would have great application in fields such as medicine. He described a near future in which physicians would have artificial intelligence-based assistants that can recognize the applicability of the outcome of some obscure trial and regurgitate it as needed.

This may seem quasi-magical now, but as Turner pointed out, were pretty good at taking huge leaps in cognitive computing for granted once weve had them around for a bit: As soon as these technologies come online and are integrated with our daily lives, we stop thinking of them that way Oh, its speech recognition.

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Talking deep learning with AlchemyAPI CEO Elliot Turner

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Summary: AlchemyAPI has a lofty but challenging goal: Democratize big data for the masses. A look at the emerging artificial intelligence stack.

AlchemyAPI is a deep learning company without a face---actually a user interface---with a lofty goal to democratize artificial intelligence.

The company, based in Denver, specializes in training deep neural networks to analyze information and carry out cognitive computing tasks. In some ways, AlchemyAPI could be considered David to IBM's Goliath. Or IBM just buys David at some point.

Deep learning, using algorithms to model data so machines can learn and adapt, is a hot space right now even though the so-called killer application or industry hasn't been found. For now, deep learning technology could mean anything from finding facial patterns on Facebook to combing through the human genome and medical literature to cure cancer.

AlchemyAPI's technology has been applied to vision and sorting through unstructured data. The company can process everything from SEC footnotes to images to video in context.

We caught up with Elliot Turner, CEO of AlchemyAPI, at GigaOm's Structure Data conference over a storage shed at Chelsea Piers in New York. Turner and company were good sports hanging out in 34 degree weather since GigaOm apparently doesn't do press rooms or briefing areas for anyone not on its research team these days.

Here's the recap:

The democratization of big data. Turner's main mission is to democratize big data and enable real-time analysis of unstructured information---Web pages, chats, video, text and SEC filings to name a few items---for both large companies and small. At the GigaOm Structure Data conference in New York, Turner was slated to be on a panel with Stephen Gold, vice president of worldwide marketing and sales for IBM's Watson business unit. The storyline is that deep learning should be available to all, not just large companies. "We're not solving just one problem and want to put our capabilities in the hands of everybody," said Taylor. "We want to do for big data what AWS did for infrastructure."

Where's the UI? AlchemyAPI's technology can be found at a bevy of companies ranging from Hearst to Jive Software to Outbrain to trading firms looking to combine news and regulatory filings with algorithms. In all of these cases, AlchemyAPI's technology serves as a base layer and customers put on the front-end experience. Should AlchemyAPI want to expand its wares to a broader market beyond developers, it may want to ponder a UI. Turner said AlchemyAPI would ponder a front end to make its algorithms and data more accessible, but wouldn't want to compete with customers. Nevertheless, AlchemyAPI's labs team has at least pondered a front end interface to target "non engineers." "The long-term vision is to make our technology available to a wide audience," said Turner. "It's such a huge space."

The artificial intelligence stack. Turner frequently returned to the concept of AI as a stack---much like a computing stack. That stack today is just being formed. AlchemyAPI is obviously at the base layer with its programming interfaces, but could plug into other levels over time. Today, there are a lot of companies that plug into various levels of the AI stack, but the problem is that customers have to comingle vendors and approaches. IBM has core language processing tools and moves up to Watson. AlchemyAPI also sounds like it would like to provide a full AI stack over time.

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New XPrize: Can an AI project get a standing ovation at TED?

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The challenge: Come up with an artificial intelligence project that by itself can come up with a TED talk so good it gets a standing ovation.

The AI XPrize, announced today at TED.

Can an artificial intelligence system get a standing ovation at the TED conference?

That's the challenge for the brand-new A.I. XPrize, announced Thursday at TED in Vancouver by XPrize Foundation head Peter Diamandis.

Unlike most XPrizes, which have clear rules and goals, this one is a bit more free-form. Described as "a modern-day Turing test, [it will] be awarded to the first A.I. to walk or roll out on stage and present a TED talk so compelling that it commands a standing ovation from you, the audience."

And TED and the XPrize Foundation is turning to the global community for ideas on how to make this a reality. Fortunately, though, it is offering a few sample ideas on what could be the winning formula:

Each year at the TED conference, an interim prize would be offered for the best A.I. presentation until such time that an A.I. truly delivers a spectacular TED talk, and the A.I. XPrize presented by TED winner is crowned.

That, of course, is just one approach. The winning angle may be something altogether different. And it's as yet unclear how much the victorious team will win.

Still, it's an interesting idea. One hopes that TED audiences of the future will not be so bowled over by the very concept of an A.I. giving a talk that they automatically give the first one to take the stage a standing O. Instead, let's hope that the first-ever ovation is truly deserving. Maybe it'll be a meta talk, an A.I. explaining how it took on the challenge of getting a standing ovation at TED, and the process it took to achieve success.

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The challenge: Come up with an artificial intelligence project that by itself can come up with a TED talk so good it gets a standing ovation.

The AI XPrize, announced today at TED.

Can an artificial intelligence system get a standing ovation at the TED conference?

That's the challenge for the brand-new A.I. XPrize, announced Thursday at TED in Vancouver by XPrize Foundation head Peter Diamandis.

Unlike most XPrizes, which have clear rules and goals, this one is a bit more free-form. Described as "a modern-day Turing test, [it will] be awarded to the first A.I. to walk or roll out on stage and present a TED talk so compelling that it commands a standing ovation from you, the audience."

And TED and the XPrize Foundation is turning to the global community for ideas on how to make this a reality. Fortunately, though, it is offering a few sample ideas on what could be the winning formula:

Each year at the TED conference, an interim prize would be offered for the best A.I. presentation until such time that an A.I. truly delivers a spectacular TED talk, and the A.I. XPrize presented by TED winner is crowned.

That, of course, is just one approach. The winning angle may be something altogether different. And it's as yet unclear how much the victorious team will win.

Still, it's an interesting idea. One hopes that TED audiences of the future will not be so bowled over by the very concept of an A.I. giving a talk that they automatically give the first one to take the stage a standing O. Instead, let's hope that the first-ever ovation is truly deserving. Maybe it'll be a meta talk, an A.I. explaining how it took on the challenge of getting a standing ovation at TED, and the process it took to achieve success.

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The challenge: Come up with an artificial intelligence project that by itself can come up with a TED talk so good it gets a standing ovation.

The AI XPrize, announced today at TED.

Can an artificial intelligence system get a standing ovation at the TED conference?

That's the challenge for the brand-new A.I. XPrize, announced Thursday at TED in Vancouver by XPrize Foundation head Peter Diamandis.

Unlike most XPrizes, which have clear rules and goals, this one is a bit more free-form. Described as "a modern-day Turing test, [it will] be awarded to the first A.I. to walk or roll out on stage and present a TED talk so compelling that it commands a standing ovation from you, the audience."

And TED and the XPrize Foundation is turning to the global community for ideas on how to make this a reality. Fortunately, though, it is offering a few sample ideas on what could be the winning formula:

Each year at the TED conference, an interim prize would be offered for the best A.I. presentation until such time that an A.I. truly delivers a spectacular TED talk, and the A.I. XPrize presented by TED winner is crowned.

That, of course, is just one approach. The winning angle may be something altogether different. And it's as yet unclear how much the victorious team will win.

Still, it's an interesting idea. One hopes that TED audiences of the future will not be so bowled over by the very concept of an A.I. giving a talk that they automatically give the first one to take the stage a standing O. Instead, let's hope that the first-ever ovation is truly deserving. Maybe it'll be a meta talk, an A.I. explaining how it took on the challenge of getting a standing ovation at TED, and the process it took to achieve success.

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Vector Aerospace Receives 2013 Rolls-Royce FIRST Network Customer Satisfaction Award

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Richmond, BC Vector Aerospace (www.vectoraerospace.com), a global independent provider of aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, Vector Aerospace Helicopter Services North America (HS-NA), one of the worlds leading providers of helicopter maintenance, repair and overhaul centers was presented the 2013 Rolls-Royce FIRST Network Customer Satisfaction Award during Heli-Expo 2014.

Vector conducts quarterly surveys among Rolls-Royce customers to ensure customer satisfaction, and received an impressive 94% satisfaction rating in 2013. Vector also recorded improvements in their Turn Around times (TAT) and their On Time Delivery (OTD) in 2013. In addition, Vector continues to take great pride in supporting the Kiowa Warrior Program with improved engine performance and reliability.

We are pleased to receive this award from Rolls-Royce, states Julien Roy, Vice President, Operations at HS-NA. This is affirmation that Vectors focus on quality and customer service is generating positive results and most importantly, meeting or exceeding the expectations of our Rolls-Royce customers.

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Vector Aerospace is a global provider of aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul services. Through facilities in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, South Africa and Kenya, Vector Aerospace provides services to commercial and military customers for gas turbine engines, components and helicopter airframes. Vectors customer-focused team includes over 2,700 motivated employees.

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Khushwant: RIP

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I was saddened to read that Khushwant Singh passed away in his sleep last week. What a quiet end for so loud a man. How the gods mock the mocking.

Contradictions surrounded Khushwant at every stage of his life. He strove to give the impression that he was a drunken slob yet he was one of the most hard-working and punctual men I knew. He professed agnosticism and yet enjoyed kirtan as only few can and do. He was known nationally as a celebrated lecher but for the past thirty years at least it was a hot-water-bottle that warmed his bed. He devoted his last years in the service of a woman who decisively spurned him in the end. He made a profession of living off his friends' important names and yet worked single-handedly to diminish that very importance. Empty vessels make the most noise but Khushwant was always full of the Scotch he had cadged off others.

He was a much misunderstood man. So before the limp eulogies start pouring in (how Khushwant would have hated them!) let me set the record straight. As Khushwant once said, the obituary is the best place to tell the truth for dead men file no libel suits. (An agnostic to the end he didn't believe in the Resurrection.)

Khushwant was born in 1915 in a rich but not particularly educated home. They were Khuranas from Sargodha who made good in Delhi. His father, Sir Sobha Singh, was the contractor who built the city of New Delhi and who in consequence received a knighthood. In '47 it used to be said (somewhat inaccurately it must be admitted) that ninety-nine per cent of New Delhi was owned by the Government and one per cent by Sir Sobha Singh.

After his initial education Khushwant was sent to England to appear for the ICS. He didn't make it. Later he would tell a story of how he had made it to the Merit List but how that year there was a reserved place for a non-Jat from Phulkian state (later PEPSU) and how some- one with less marks than him filled that place. But Khushwant was always a great raconteur so it is difficult to know what to believe.

Once bitten, twice shy. Khushwant didn't try for the ICS again but instead enrolled himself at the London School of Economics from where in the course of things he acquired a BA. The examiners decided to place him in the Third Class. After his degree Khushwant read for the Bar where he was equally successful. (His brother Daljit, now a businessman, was always the better scholar of the two.)

When Khushwant came back after six years in England a family friend asked his father: 'Kaka valaiton kee kar ke aayaa hai? (What has the boy done in England?) Sir Sobha Singh replied 'Time pass kar ke aaya hai jee.' (He has been marking time.) It is unlikely the canny con- tractor was joking.

After the Partition Khushwant joined the Indian Foreign Service and this phase of his career took him to London, Ottawa and Paris. In this period he began publishing short stories on rustic themes. In '55 he shot to fame when a novel of his won a large cash award set by an American publishing house in order to attract manuscripts. It was a mediocre Partition quickie called Mano Majra (later published as Train to Pakistan).

Years passed. Khushwant kept writing books, on the Jupji, on the Sikhs, on India, stories, translations: many of them provocatively titled and indicative of his deepest desires, "I Shall Rape the Nightingale", "I Take This Woman" etc. Some of these attempts were successful.

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Humans Wiped Out Giant New Zealand Bird

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Nine species of giant, flightless birds, known as moas, suddenly went extinct within two centuries of humans first arrival to New Zealand. Coincidence? No, a team of geneticists, biologists and archeologists recently wrote. The scientists found evidence that moas thrived before Polynesians colonized the islands in the 13th century.

The scientists analyzed genetic remains from 281 individual birds from four species of moa. The researchers looked for signs of dwindling moa populations in the 4,000 years before humans arrived. When animal populations shrink dramatically, their genetic diversity also decreases. Instead, the moa had a healthy variety of DNA, which suggested strong populations.

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For example, the 3.6 meter (12 ft.) tall South Island giant moa (Dinornis robustus) had an estimated population of 9,200 individuals that may have been growing. Although another species, the 1.5 to 1.8 meter (4.95.9 ft.) tall eastern moa (Euryapteryx crassus), showed signs of a major historical die-off, that reduction in numbers likely occurred more than 17,900 years ago, thousands of years before humans arrived. Euryapteryx crassus had recovered and seemed to be thriving in the eastern lowland forests of New Zealand by the time humans arrived.

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These findings point strongly toward human contact as the only factor responsible for the extinction, wrote the scientists in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Elsewhere the situation may be more complex, but in the case of New Zealand the evidence provided by ancient DNA is now clear: The megafaunal extinctions were the result of human factors, said lead author Mike Bunce of Curtin University in Australia in a press release. We need to be more aware of the impacts we are having on the environment today and what we, as a species, are responsible for in the past.

Illustration: Polynesians Hunting Giant Moa, by Heinrich Harder. Credit: Wikimedia Commons

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