AI Year in Review
Highlighting some of the Top Stories of 2016
Celebrating Two Years of neurons.ai and the Informed.AI Media Group
Two years today neurons.ai first went live. I am very happy to say that the purpose for site then is still the core purpose of the Informed.AI group of websites, and that is to Support the AI Community. The two year milestone has made us review this mission and we are...
Microsoft is Latest Tech Company to Release an Artificial Intelligence Translator App
Microsoft is Latest Tech Company to Release an Artificial Intelligence Translator App Microsoft Corp. said it will release a translation app for Windows and other operating systems from rivals Apple Inc. and Google, part of a broader race between the world’s largest...
AWS comes out swinging with AI services
AWS comes out swinging with AI services LAS VEGAS -- Artificial intelligence just may be the new battleground in the cloud. At its re:Invent conference today, Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy announced three artificial intelligence (A.I.) services that will be...
Press Release – Neurons.AI Launches – The Network for AI Professionals
Neurons.AI Launches Today – The Network for AI Professionals A new social network for artificial intelligence professionals called Neurons.AI is launching today that will both operate online and host real world meet-ups. Neurons will be the...
Major Roadblocks on the Path to Machine Learning
Major Roadblocks on the Path to Machine Learning October 31, 2016 Thomas Dinsmore In part one of this series last week, we discussed the emerging ecosystem of machine learning applications and what promise those portend. But of course, as with any emerging application...
Giant Tech Companies Joined Forces For 'Partnership On Artificial Intelligence' — Apple Not Included
Giant Tech Companies Joined Forces For 'Partnership On Artificial Intelligence' -- Apple Not Included Partnership on AI goal to address opportunities and challenges with AI technology to benefit society and economy(Photo : VCG / Stringer) Five giant tech...
Microsoft goes big on AI research
Microsoft goes big on AI research SEATTLE • Microsoft is reorganising part of the company to better position itself as one of the significant players in the emerging field of artificial intelligence. The company has created a new organisation that combines its...
Google's WaveNet Mimics a Human's Voice
Google's WaveNet Mimics a Human's Voice Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter Google DeepMind researchers have been busy creating a new artificial intelligence called WaveNet that has the ability to mimic human speech like no other machine out there. The...
Artificial intelligence creates sci-fi trailer
Artificial intelligence creates sci-fi trailer Ben Hoyle, Los Angeles The trailer for the film Morgan demonstrates the eerie potential of artificial intelligence as it exists now A trailer for a film about the moral complexity of creating artificial life is unnerving...
The 2nd AI Achievement Awards – Opens for Voting on Thursday 1st September
All, It is with great pleasure that we formally announce that the 2nd Annual Global AI Achievement Awards will be open for nomination votes this Thursday 1st Sept. This is our second year of holding these awards, which we had ten awards categories, you can see the...
AlphaGo computer beats Go Grandmaster Lee Sedol
AlphaGo computer beats Go Grandmaster Lee Sedol A computer named AlphaGo has beaten Grandmaster Lee Sedol at the game of Go. As the machine wowed spectators around the globe, it also raised some questions. Like how advanced are AI technologies already? And when will...
XPRIZE launches AI 2020 competition with IBM Watson
XPRIZE launches AI 2020 competition with IBM Watson Close your eyes. What do you see when you think about artificial intelligence? Hal 9000 defying human orders? Ava savagely murdering her maker? What about ARIIA taking over the country from deep inside...
Phew! Facebook’s AI chief says intelligent machines are not a threat to humanity
Phew! Facebook's AI chief says intelligent machines are not a threat to humanity The chief scientist leading Facebook's research into artificial intelligence doesn't believe the technology is a threat to human existence – unless we are very stupid. "I don’t think at...
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo System Helps Paves the Way for Our…
Google DeepMind's AlphaGo System Helps Paves the Way for Our… In March this year, headlines were made as Google DeepMind‘s AlphaGo System defeated Professional Go Player, Lee Sedol in a five-match tournament that took place at the Four Seasons Hotel in...
New Artificial Intelligence Able to Beat Human Pilots In Dogfight
New Artificial Intelligence Able to Beat Human Pilots In Dogfight 30 June 2016Forbes reported that researchers with artificial intelligence (AI) company Psibernetix have developed a new AI named ALPHA that is capable of defeating human pilots in aerial combat....
Author Ray Kurzweil, Google team up to create human-like chatbot ‘Danielle’
Author Ray Kurzweil, Google team up to create human-like chatbot 'Danielle' People are waiting for the day when artificial intelligence can pass as a human, and with Google and author Ray Kurzweil teaming up to create a human-like chatbot, that day could be around...
Elon Musk Opens Training Gym to Make AI Programs Smarter
Elon Musk Opens Training Gym to Make AI Programs Smarter SpaceX and Tesla Motors boss Elon Musk has open-sourced OpenAI Gym, which is a kind of training gym for artificial intelligence programs. The virtual gym is created to help computer programmers improve their AI...
Nvidia releases World's first Deep learning Supercomputer DGX-1
Nvidia releases World's first Deep learning Supercomputer DGX-1 DGX1's new powerful chip has 150 billion transistors laid on a single chip, which makes it the world's largest chip. Nvidia has released a new state-of-the-art chip, the Tesla P100 GPU and...
Microsoft still set on AI bots after Tay fiasco
Microsoft still set on AI bots after Tay fiasco SEATTLE • Microsoft chief executive officer Satya Nadella said his company is committed to the emerging market for artificial intelligence-based chat software, one week after the company's first Internet chatbot in the...
Is Singularity Near?
Is Singularity Near? OpenAI, a nonprofit artificial intelligence research company, announced itself to the world on December 11, 2015. With $1 billion in funding from high-profile investors, such as Elon Musk, Reid Hoffman and Peter Thiel, the company put forward an...
Marvin Minsky, who pioneered artificial intelligence research, dies at age 88
Marvin Minsky, who pioneered artificial intelligence research, dies at age 88 NPR’s Robert Siegel speaks to Ray Kurzweil, the inventor and futurist, and founder of Kurzweil Technologies, about Marvin Minsky, PhD. Minsky, who was a founding father of artificial...
Will 2016 Be NVIDIA Corporation’s Best Year Yet?
Will 2016 Be NVIDIA Corporation's Best Year Yet? NVIDIA Shield TV. Source: NVIDIA2015 was a great year for NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) investors. Shares of the chip giant surged nearly 64%, strongly outperforming the broader S&P 500, as rising demand for the company's...
Disclaimer – Please note we get over 25,000 stories a year posted on our site, so selecting a handful that represent the year is always going to be difficult and will no doubt potentially miss a few of the key stories, but we have done our best to highlight the ones we feel have been important.