Cognitive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers businesses an incredible opportunity to rethink traditional processes. By automating rote tasks and accelerating standard workflows, companies can free employees to pursue innovation in other capacities.
But are AI and intelligent automation different than other enterprise technologies? Does AI’s potential pose far more dramatic threats than previous technological innovations? Why are technologists and business leaders so excited and simultaneously apprehensive about a technology that, despite its creation in the 1950s, is still in its relative infancy?In this video, we speak with Fred Laluyaux, CEO and President of Aera Technology and David Bray, Executive Director of the People-Centered Internet, about these critical topics. Read More
Daily Archives: July 1, 2019
Can AI Save the Internet from Fake News?
There’s an old proverb that says “seeing is believing.” But in the age of artificial intelligence, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to take anything at face value—literally.
The rise of so-called “deepfakes,” in which different types of AI-based techniques are used to manipulate video content, has reached the point where Congress held its first hearing last month on the potential abuses of the technology. The congressional investigation coincided with the release of a doctored video of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg delivering what appeared to be a sinister speech. Read More
Neuromorphic computing finds new life in machine learning
Neuromorphic computing has had little practical success in building machines that can tackle standard tests such as logistic regression or image recognition. But work by prominent researchers is combining the best of machine learning with simulated networks of spiking neurons, bringing new hope for neuromorphic breakthroughs.
Efforts have been underway for forty years to build computers that might emulate some of the structure of the brain in the way they solve problems. To date, they have shown few practical successes. But hope for so-called neuromorphic computing springs eternal, and lately, the endeavor has gained some surprising champions. Read More
Why AI Should Rightfully Mean Augmented Intelligence, Not Artificial Intelligence
Perhaps “artificial” is too artificial of a word for the AI equation. Augmented intelligence describes the essence of the technology in a more elegant and accurate way.
AI has been around for some time, and Dr. David Bray, executive director of the People-Centered Internet, sees the current “third wave” of AI as a convergence of neural networks, deep learning, pattern matching, Internet of Things, and scaling tasks beyond human limitations. AI’s power and potential arises from pairing humans and machines, so that “the human is learning from the machine and, at the same time, the machine is learning from the human. Together, you’re getting better outcomes from them both.” Read More
A new AI is Using News Outlets to Produce Fake Article and it is quite Concerning!
Over the last few years, the rise of fake news and information has been off the charts. To tackle this issue, various measures have been implemented. Most recently, the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence developed Grover.
Grover is basically a neural network that can produce fake articles by imitating the writing style of actual journalists. The motivation behind its creation is to identify fake news, and generate fake stories as well. Read More
AI is changing the entire nature of compute
The world of computing, from chips to software to systems, is going to change dramatically in coming years as a result of the spread of machine learning. We may still refer to these computers as “Universal Turing Machines,” as we have for eighty years or more. But in practice they will be different from the way they have been built and used up to now.
Such a change is of interest both to anyone who cares about what computers do, and to anyone who’s interested in machine learning in all its forms. Read More
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