A pioneer in artificial intelligence says conventional companies can still distinguish themselves in A.I. despite worries that tech giants like Google and Amazon have already won.
Andrew Ng, a prominent Silicon Valley executive and investor who previously led some of the biggest A.I. projects at Google and its Chinese rival Baidu, says the next wave of A.I. will be in industries in which the tech giants aren’t firmly rooted. Think manufacturing, agriculture, and healthcare. Read More
Daily Archives: November 14, 2019
China Investing in ‘Artificial Intelligence’ Warfare to Threaten US Military Superiority
China is eroding America’s military superiority and conventional deterrence through the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) systems in its military strategies, operations, and capabilities, an independent U.S. federal commission warned, adding that the United States needs to step up investment in the technology and apply it to national security missions.
China’s communist regime has established research and development institutes to advance its military applications of AI. Those institutes are equivalent to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—a U.S. agency under the Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for military use. Read More
3 Data-Driven Rules For Competing With Amazon In The First-Ever Trillion-Dollar Holiday Season
Data is eating the world and Amazon got it very early on.
… “The retail innovators of 2019 understand that they are in the data business,” says Chris Lynch.
… Lynch’s rules for surviving and thriving in the Amazon era can be summarized as follows: Enhance, extend, and be an expert.
— Data-Driven Rule #1: Enhance your data by breaking down the silos in which it is stored, across the enterprise and in the cloud.
— Data-Driven Rule #2: Extend your data by integrating it with your entire value chain—suppliers, customers, any entity that can benefit from access to data that is relevant to your business partnership.
— Data-Driven Rule #3: Become an expert. Read More
Tomorrow’s ‘general’ AI revolution will grow from today’s technology
During his closing remarks at the I/O 2019 keynote last week, Jeff Dean, Google AI’s lead, noted that the company is looking at “AI that can work across disciplines,” suggesting the Silicon Valley giant may soon pursue artificial general intelligence, a technology that eventually could match or exceed human intellect. Read More
Computers Evolve a New Path Toward Human Intelligence
In 2007, Kenneth Stanley, a computer scientist at the University of Central Florida, was playing with Picbreeder, a website he and his students had created, when an alien became a race car and changed his life. On Picbreeder, users would see an array of 15 similar images, composed of geometric shapes or swirly patterns, all variations on a theme. On occasion, some might resemble a real object, like a butterfly or a face. Users were asked to select one, and they typically clicked on whatever they found most interesting. Once they did, a new set of images, all variations on their choice, would populate the screen. From this playful exploration, a catalog of fanciful designs emerged. Read More
NTSB Investigation Into Deadly Uber Self-Driving Car Crash Reveals Lax Attitude Toward Safety
The Uber car that hit and killed Elaine Herzberg in Tempe, Ariz., in March 2018 could not recognize all pedestrians, and was being driven by an operator likely distracted by streaming video, according to documents released by the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) this week.
But while the technical failures and omissions in Uber’s self-driving car program are shocking, the NTSB investigation also highlights safety failures that include the vehicle operator’s lapses, lax corporate governance of the project, and limited public oversight. Read More
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