Moon @ 36X with Sony A7S & Astro-Physics 155mm Telescope in Real-Time – Video

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Missionaries and Cannibals problem (Artificial Intelligence) very easy to understand – Video

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Secrets Section 1982 TRON ENCOM 511 Artificial Intelligence Beast. – Video

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Artificial Intelligence App Review- Is this Artificial Intelligence App really intelligent? – Video

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Brain Simulator – Our general artificial intelligence project with a 10mil USD research fund – Video

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Memex In Action: Watch DARPA Artificial Intelligence Search For Crime On The 'Dark Web'

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Christopher White heads up the Memex team at DARPA

Of late, DARPA has shown a growing interest in open sourcing its technology, even if its most terrifying creations, like army robot wildcats designed to reach speeds of 50Mph, are understandably kept private. In a weeks time, the wider world will be able to tinker with components of the military research bodys in-development search tool for the dark web. The Memex technology, named after an mechanical mnemonic dreamt up just as the Second World War was coming to a close, has already been put to use by a number of law enforcement agencies, who are looking to counter crime taking place on networks like Tor, where Hidden Services are protected by the privacy-enhancing, encrypted hosting, often for good, often for bad. In its first year, the focus at Memex has been on tracking human trafficking, but the projects scope stretches considerably wider.

Its likely that in the coming weeks many other law enforcement agencies will avail themselves of the search tools, which will land on DARPAs Open Catalog next Friday (though DARPA told FORBES the release could be pushed back to the following Monday). FORBES got an exclusive look at the front end of one of the search technologies created by one of the Memex team, a group of self-proclaimed hackers called Hyperion Gray.

According to Alejandro Caceres, who heads up the Hyperion Gray team, a handful of his firms tools will be available, including advanced web crawling and scraping technologies, with a dose of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning, with the goal of being able to retrieve virtually any content on the Internet in an automated way. Its solution to the problem of finding crime on the so-called dark web (a term anathema to Tors supporters), is called SourcePin. It is trying to overcome one of the main barriers to modern search: crawlers cant click or scroll like humans do and so often dont collect dynamic content that appears upon an action by a user.

Our approach to solving this problem is to build a system that sees the web more like a human user with a browser, and therefore actually behaves like a human user by using a browser to crawl the web, to the point of being able to scroll down a page, or even hover over an object on the page to reveal more content. we are teaching the system how to act like a human and handle virtually any web page scenario. Eventually our system will be like an army of robot interns that can find stuff for you on the web, while you do important things like watch cat videos, says Caceres.

The videos below show the SourcePin front end in action, bringing up a host of Tor-based .onion sites with a tile-based user interface, the latter being a newer version. Clicking on a link brings up more information on the site, which in this case is Euro Guns, described as the number one gun dealer in onionland [another name for Tor], where visitors can buy weapons and ammo in exchange for bitcoin.

There are a host of other big-name partners working on the Memex suite, including Carnegie Mellon, which was handed $3.6 million to develop machine learning algorithms that will analyze ads for sex services posted to websites, in the hope officers will find it easier to search for advertisements related to investigations into sex trafficking and prostitution. National security technology provider Sotera Defense Solutions last week noted it had contributed a browser, DataWake, to the initiative. There are 17 partners in total, most of which have not yet been revealed and the project will last for two more years.

The Memex team also wants to get a better understanding of what Hidden Services are running on Tor. Christopher White, who heads up the Memex team at DARPA, told FORBES previous studies were based on biased data sets, whereas DARPA wants to create a standardised way of counting and exploring the different kinds of Tor-based sites, whether theyre helping human rights activists or drug pushers. Early results have indicated there are as many as 30,000 Hidden Services running at any one time.

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DARPA hasnt yet divulged which components outside of SourcePin will be going open source. White said a fuller toolset will be made available to the wider public in December and when the multi-million dollar initiative is done, he expects many parts of the government and the wider business community to download and adapt what he called a general purpose technology.

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Unnerving consideration of artificial intelligence in 'Ex Machina'

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Shrewdly imagined and persuasively made, "Ex Machina" is a spooky piece of speculative fiction that's completely plausible, capable of both thinking big thoughts and providing pulp thrills. But even saying that doesn't do this quietly unnerving film full justice.

The compelling directorial debut for novelist and screenwriter Alex Garland, "Ex Machina" is also an involving chamber drama featuring emotional moves and countermoves by a trio of individuals played by Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac and Alicia Vikander. Except one of them just happens to be machine-made.

The title "Ex Machina" comes from the Latin phrase deus ex machina, translated as god from the machine. Its origins have to do with Greek drama, but the reference here is to man playing god, to the unthought-of complications involved in creating sentient life.

Stories about artificial intelligence are a frequent science fiction topic, from Czech writer Karel Capek's 1920 play "R.U.R." (which coined the term "robot") to Spike Jonze's invisible "Her." But the lumbering image that the word "robot" conveys is all wrong for Ava, stunningly played by Vikander, a creature of otherworldly delicacy and beauty who intentionally doesn't look like AI we've seen before. Simultaneously naive and knowing, she seems to be discovering the world right before our eyes.

Before we get to Ava, however, we meet Caleb Smith, expertly played by Gleeson, who here combines a smidgen of savvy with his trademark open-faced innocence.

Caleb works for Blue Book, the world's most successful Internet search engine, and the film opens with his winning first prize in a company-wide lottery. He's to spend a week with Blue Book's brilliant and fabulously wealthy but reclusive CEO, Nathan Bateman (Isaac), who lives such a removed life in the wilds of Alaska that you can helicopter for two hours over his property and still not reach his house.

As played by the chameleon-like Isaac ("Inside Llewyn Davis," "A Most Violent Year"), Nathan is a formidable individual, intimidating mentally, physically and psychologically. With his buzz cut, full beard and imposing physique, the man is arrogant and self-involved. He clearly thinks he knows it all, but does he, and even if he does, how completely can he be trusted?

Nathan's compound (filmed in Norway) is not just a house; it's a research facility filled with "enough fiber optic cable to go to the moon and lasso it." Living alone except for Kyoko (Sonoya Mizuno), an enigmatic Japanese servant who speaks no English, Nathan has been working on creating artificial intelligence and now wants to put his creation to the test.

So Caleb is there, as it turns out, to do a kind of Touring test (conceived of by the British mathematician of "The Imitation Game") on Nathan's creation to determine whether Ava is capable of experiencing real emotions or just simulating them.

One reason for the success of "Ex Machina" is that Ava herself, in terms of design, acting and technology, is such a remarkable and compelling creation. Conceived by the comic book artist known as Jock, her look combines shiny mesh with translucent material on her arms and torso that reveal the mechanism within. "You can see that I am a machine" is one of the first things Ava says to Caleb, and, after six months of post-production work by Andrew Whitehurst of VFX house Double Negative, the film's visual effects supervisor, that edgy combination of human and machine is exactly what we see.

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Beyond the sci-fi scaremongering: the AI revolution will be by humans, for humans, and it's happening now

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More than half of senior executives across the US and Europe see intelligent process automation as significantly improving their business processes over the next three to five years

Ex Machina and Chappie are just two of the recent films that have reignited the debate around artificial intelligence and the value it holds in assisting humans in everyday tasks. Like a science fiction movie, automation sparks thoughts of humanoid robots that replace people, or that can do things better or sometimes worsethan we can.

Where is all of this taking us? It can be a divisive topic: luminaries such as Stephen Hawking, Bill Gates and Elon Musk have been openly sounding alarm bells about the dangers of artificial intelligence. An 'Institute of Existential Risk' has been endowed at Cambridge University. Lets be honest. Automation will likely make some jobs redundant, but it will also create others. Five years ago, who would have imagined the following 'help wanted' ad? 'Twitter Data Wrangler Apply Within'?

While the debate about job loss to automation and AI will continue, numerous businesses are already using automation to improve operational processes and efficiency. As a result, it is highly likely that the power of smart robots for intelligent process automation may in fact enhance todays jobs and create completely new categories. Thats because its not a matter of simply applying automation to existing processes: its about building processes for humans, by humans.

Rise of the robots, but power to the people

The potential is as huge as the benefits are obvious. By implementing a digital workforce of software robots, organisations can ensure that work is done around the clock, eliminate human error and reduce human dependency to save costs and drive revenue.

> See also: AI in the enterprise

AI and intelligent process automation (IPA) have the power to transform and drive positive, important advancements for society in areas like healthcare and education. Consider the Internet of Things, where sensors including emerging nanotechnologies coupled with artificial intelligence are beginning to drive advances in workplace safety.

It is true that robots can do the same tasks over and over, with zero variance with significantly fewer errors. But humans must still oversee robots to monitor, orchestrate, coordinate and remediate problems if something goes wrong. So, power to the people! Automation has its limits and there are some things that robots just cant do.

Thats where a blended model of automation augmenting talented people can provide extraordinary outcomes. By connecting people across all business functions and geographies, and providing them with relevant information in real-time, intelligent process automation will provide better design, operations and maintenance, as well as higher quality service and safety.

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What Ex Machina's Alex Garland Gets Wrong About Artificial Intelligence

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Ex Machinaopens this weekend. Itsdirector, Alex Garland of28 Days Lateracclaim, appeared on Marketplacetoday to discuss the role of artificial intelligence in the film. Garland madea claim that is common but, in my view,flawed: If you had a machine that said I dont want you to switch me off, he told Ben Johnson, and you have reason to believe it was telling the truth,you then pretty much immediately have to give it all of the ethical rights and considerations that we give each other.

We cannot grant AI the full set of rights that apply to humans, at least not without radical changes to our laws, norms, and institutions. Society is set up for peoplepeople who are varied, yes, but who share a set of physical, mental, and perhaps spiritualcharacteristics that law and ethics more or less assume and rely upon.

Consider what I call the Copy orVote Paradox, a thought experiment which places two fundamental rights next to one another and asks us which we would like to grant to AI, since we cannot grant both. I lay out the Paradox in myrecent paperRobotics and the Lessons of Cyberlaw:

Imagine, with [Duke law professor] James Boyle, that an artificial intelligence announces it has achieved self-awareness, a claim no one seems able to discredit. Boyle examines the difficulty we might face in shutting this system down and explores some sensible arguments on either side. But why stop there? Say the intelligence has also read Skinner v. Oklahoma, a Supreme Court case that characterizes the right to procreate as one of the basic civil rights of man. The machine claims the right to make copies of itself (the only way it knows to replicate). These copies believe they should count for purposes of representation in Congress and, eventually, they demand a pathway to suffrage. Of course, conferring such rights to beings capable of indefinitely self-copying would overwhelm our system of governance. Which right do we take away from this sentient entity, then, the fundamental right to copy, or the deep, democratic right to participate?

There is reason to believe we will never be able to recreate so-called strong artificialintelligence. But assuming that we do, neither the intelligence itself, nor the vehicle for that intelligence, will resemble people as we understand them. With protagonists like Ex Machinas Ava, Garland isencouragingwhat law professorNeil Richards and roboticist Bill Smart term the Android Fallacywhich is to say, thinking of a machine as a person because it resembles one superficially. I would not go as far asRichards and Smart to claimthat robots are just tools like any other; robots and AI raise manynovel questions of law and policy. But I caution the audience ofEx Machina, Chappy,Her,Robot and Frank, and other films about robots and AI to think critically aboutwhat conferring human rights upon machines would actually entail.

This isnot to say we should avoid suchtopics. Much closer to the mark is the work on display over the next two days at the fourth annual robotics law and policy conference We Robot(#werobot on Twitter Twitter).In these draft papers, youwill see considered reflections by people withtraining in law, computer science, electrical engineering, and other disciplines on how contemporary and futureinstitutions should think about robots and AI. Another excellent resource is the Open Letter from the Future of Life Institute, signed by dozens of top researchers in a variety of fields, that lays out a research agenda for short and long term research into responsiblemachine learning.

And it is certainly not to say we should avoid movies likeEx Machina!The reviews are glowing and the issues the film actually raises are fascinating. I, for one,welcome our robot movies.

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Women In Aerospace: A Google Science Fair 2015 Hangout On Air with Virgin Galactic – Video

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Women In Aerospace: A Google Science Fair 2015 Hangout On Air with Virgin Galactic
On May 20-21, 1932, Amelia Earhart* flew solo across the Atlantic. Three years later she became the first person, man or woman, to fly from Hawaii to the mainland. Amelia embodied the spirit...

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