by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
Microsoft’s Chinese chatbot XiaoIce has become a morning TV weather anchor
XiaoIce, an artificial intelligent chatbot developed by Microsoft to communicate with Chinese residents on social networks, is now doing morning weather reports on TV....
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
Microsoft AI Xiaoice gets job as Chinese TV weather host
Microsoft has revealed that its Xiaoice machine learning software, which has gained prominence in China as a chat-bot on local messaging services like WeChat, Line, and the Weibo social network, has...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
Microsoft Xiaoice AI Becomes Live TV Weather Host
Joining Hands with Microsoft Xiaoice, Dragon TV Launches First AI Program Ever (PRNewsFoto/Microsoft) Microsoft’s Xiaoice software program with artificial intelligence is already being used to provide...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
Wanted: three boffins to save the world from the ‘AI apocalypse’
Which job, awarded in 2016, could save the world or damn it? The US presidency? The new secretary of the UN to be announced next year? Maybe. Or perhaps the most important...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
2015: The Internet of Things takes another step
Much ink was spilled in 2015 about the Internet of Things. It’s a concept that has been bandied about for several years—remember the use case of your refrigerator letting your local grocer know when you’re...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
The Next Stage of Machine Learning: Teach Robots to Think Like Humans
by Stefani Cox The human brain is a never-ending source of wonder. In recent years, scientists and engineers have made major progress in figuring out how to replicate key facets of...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
Ken Levine’s New Game Inspired By Dark Souls, System Shock And Fallout
Ever since Irrational Games shut its doors in February of 2014, all eyes have been trained on Game Director Ken Levine as he looks to pursue a “smaller, more entrepreneurial”...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
Microsoft’s Xiaoice AI becomes the first live TV weather host
Even though machines can now generate clickbait headlines and automatically write earthquake news reports in the name of journalism, live television has remained shielded from artificial...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
Key Takeaways on Machine Learning
In a recent interview, Benjamin Recht (an associate professor in computer science, electrical engineering, and statistics at UC Berkeley) remarked that “We’re making great progress in machine learning systems, and we’re...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
Richland Police Department jumps onboard the Office 365 bandwagon
Among the rushes of life and flurry of new Microsoft hardware and software announcements, some of us may have forgotten the silent but enduring battle concerning one of its biggest...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from executable binaries
In a recent paper, we showed that coding style is present in source code and can be used to de-anonymize programmers. But what if only compiled binaries are...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
Cybersecurity Act of 2015 is Ineffective, Warns DB Networks
SAN DIEGO, Dec. 29, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — While many are decrying the newly signed Cybersecurity Act of 2015 for its privacy issues, DB Networks® is taking the Act to task for an equally...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
Year in Review: The Coming Age of Automobility and What it Means for Designers
This year has seen steady movement towards a new age of automobility. Headlines celebrated the introduction of Tesla’s Autopilot system. We experienced the first...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
Driverless cars are colliding with the creepy Trolley Problem
Philosophers have been gnawing on the infamous Trolley Problem for decades, and it’s always been a purely intellectual exercise with no “right” answer. But we’re suddenly in a world in which...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
World View: Artificial Intelligence Breakthroughs in 2015, the Singularity by 2030
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com 2015 – A breakthrough year for Artificial Intelligence The debate about preventing the Singularity Artificial...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
Can AI solve information overload?
You walk into your office and click a button to login. A screen pops up showing your tasks for the day, but you notice some subtle changes. Because your task management app is connected to the computer systems in your...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
Novel Technique May Lead to Insights on Synaptic Activity in Learning and Disease
Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University reportedly have developed a new approach to broadly survey learning-related changes in synapse properties. In a study (“Unbiased,...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
4 great leaps machine learning made in 2015
Until recently, machine learning was an esoteric discipline, used only by a few who understood the algorithms and had access to tons of data on which to employ it. But with big data technology becoming a...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
IBM, Alphabet Push To Develop Practical, Operational Quantum Computers
Experts and analysts consider quantum computing as one of the key technology sectors of the next decade. IARPA, the research arm of US intelligence, launched a research program to...
by andy@homeAI | Dec 29, 2015 | News Stories
TWO Visiting Assistant Positions
Job Type: Part-Time or Visiting Faculty Institution: College of Wooster The Department of Psychology at The College of Wooster seeks two visiting Assistant Professors for the 2016-2017 academic year beginning August...
