by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
Editorial: New strokes for new folks
Editorial: New strokes for new folks Let 2016 be the year you take ownership of Houston. Copyright 2016: Houston Chronicle December 31, 2015 The New Year is a good occasion for reflecting on the passage of time itself,...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
Microsoft wants you to take better selfies: Firm launches free app that uses machine learning to …
Microsoft Selfie app takes age, gender, skin tone, lighting into account13 filter options will clean up noise and add different themes to an image By...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
Using human power in the age of artificial intelligence
The Dec. 28 front-page article “The A.I. anxiety,” outlining concerns over the direction of technology, addressed the biggest issue there is now: Knowledge advances geometrically, human nature...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
Forget anonymity, we can remember you wholesale with machine intel, hackers warned
32c3 Anonymous programmers, from malware writers to copyright infringers and those baiting governments with censorship-foiling software, may all be unveiled using stylistic...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
Cyber PAs will run our lives within next decade
By the time we celebrate New Year’s Eve 2025, your smartphone will understand your slurred requests for a midnight taxi, the car that collects you will be driverless, and when it drops you off your sudden...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
The Books About Artificial Intelligence That You MUST Read, According to Ex Machina’s Alex …
Ex Machina remains a strong contender for the best science fiction film of 2015. It’s jam-packed with ideas along with all that psychosexual...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
March of machines to save the world
The secrets of human life are quietly being transferred to the digital brains of machines. Every second, they learn more about our foibles by quietly digesting the vast amounts of personal information we put online....
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
RANKED: The 19 most important things that happened in robotics this year
It was a big year for robotics. Youtube From breakthroughs in driverless cars to robots learning to become self-aware, there were a lot of significant advancements in the field of...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
Amy Gershkoff
Crunch Network Data scientist might be considered the “sexiest job of the 21st century,” with many companies eager to hire data science talent. But 20 years ago the term was barely used, save for a few academic articles. Even a decade ago,...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
How To Stem The Global Shortage Of Data Scientists
Amy GershkoffCrunch Network Contributor Amy Gershkoff is the chief data officer at Zynga and an adjunct professor at the University of California, Berkeley, where she teaches data science. How to join the...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
critical thinking in neuroscience
The calendar lists courses, seminars, and special events. To schedule your own event, check if a room is available on the desired date/time, and then send an email to shivangi@andromeda.rutgers.edu to make the...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
‘Human Computation’ Could Save the World Without the Risks of AI
Image: The Bull Pen/Flickr Forget artificial intelligence: The key to solving the world’s most complex problems could be human-machine collaboration. That’s the rallying cry of...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
H2O.ai sees machine learning as the answer to firms’ growing big data collections
Financial firms’ growing collection of structured and unstructured data has the potential to yield new visibility into business processes. But artificial...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
Car as a Commodity: From Hummers to Ho-Hum
Is Google threatening to homogenize cars into oblivion as Microsoft/Intel did with PCs and Google itself did with its Android smartphones? Don’t tell me you haven’t seen this movie before. The Wintel PC platform,...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
Artificial Intelligence Poses A Greater Risk To IP Than Humans Do
Bradford K. NewmanCrunch Network Contributor Bradford K. Newman is the chair of Paul Hasting’s Employee Mobility and Trade Secret Practice and the author of Protecting Intellectual Property...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
The end of exams? Algorithm can predict how students will answer questions, and even explain …
New algorithm aims to understand students’ individual learning abilitiesThe team used deep learning to train the program on student...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
Neuroscience paper retracted after colleagues object to data publication
A paper published this October in the journal Frontiers In Neuroscience was retracted the following month because the authors’ collaborators did not give them permission to publish...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
AnalyticsWeek Announced: Desk51, A Data Analytics Help Desk for the Data Driven
Desk51 is designed to improve data science capabilities, empower local workforces, facilitate the discovery of best practices beyond the limits any single business could...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
Current Data Scientist Craze Can’t Last–And That’s a Good Thing
Fads come and go, but data experts will not fade away, no matter what title they go by. Pictured: A visitor to Berlin’s International Consumer Electronics Fair uses...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 31, 2015 | News Stories
Workshop on neuroscience for engineers to be held at IIT-Madras
CHENNAI: The first annual workshop of the Centre for Computational Brain Research (CCBR) will be held at IIT-Madras from January 4 to 8.The workshop will be introduced by IIT-M alumnus Kris...
