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AI in the News: Interesting News Stories about AI
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AI in the News is a AAAI service to alert readers to current news articles in the field of AI that appear in various online news sources. An AI program—NewsFinder—crawls the web looking for AI-related news articles. The collection of articles is first filtered to select only those that mention at least one of many key terms related to AI. Then duplicate articles are detected using a semantic similarity metric, and filtered out. Finally, each article is classified using a bank of support vector machines, one for each of the 19 major topics in AITopics; articles matching no topics are also filtered out of the collection. The resulting collection is published on this web page, in the AI-Alert email list, and in our various topic-oriented and aggregate RSS feeds.
Details about NewsFinder can be found on the NewsFinder page.
Recent News Stories - May 21, 2012
- May 16, 2012: Google Changes Search, Moves Closer To Becoming Artificial Intelligence Engine. MediaPost Communications via Google News. "Tags Google began rolling out a feature that gives searchers in the United States the potential to access more relevant and in-depth responses to answers without leaving the page. The search results page displays a variety of content related to keyword queries, bringing up a list of facts, photos, and landmarks, as well as quick links to other popular uses for the search term. Rob Garner, vice president of strategy at agency iCrossing, said Google's knowledge graph takes another step in the company's long transition to develop an artificial intelligence engine -- semantic search. The change represents an effort by search engines to move away from text-based links in search results and serve up knowledge in fewer clicks." (info)
- May 15, 2012: Your data has a secret, but you yes, you can make it talk. GigaOM via Google News. "One startup trying to do just that is DataPop, which just closed a $7 million Series B round for its service that tries to present the most-relevant search ads to each individual consumer. DataPop relies on semantic search and natural-language processing to infer connections between what consumers enter into the search window and what they really want, and then on machine learning to help with everything from determining common spelling mistakes to search construction to the sequence of events that leads to a purchase. When we can understand the structure of these [ad] campaigns, DataPop Co-Founder and COO John Zimmerman told me, that provides us with the data to actually do the math and understand whats happening where. That type of insight can be invaluable to a small, niche company selling designer handbags, for example, but the company doesnt have to do anything but feed its inventory data to DataPop." (info)
 MachineLearning Please rate the relevance of this story:
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- May 16, 2012: Paralyzed woman controls robot arm with mind. New York Daily News via Google News. "Paralyzed woman uses mind to control robot arm Cathy Hutchinson directed arm to pick up bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips: researchers THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 2:56 PM braingate2.org/AP Cathy Hutchinson of East Taunton, Mass. A report by researchers published in the Thursday, May 17, 2012 issue of the journal Nature describes how two people, paralyzed years before by strokes, were able to control free-standing robotic arms with the help of a tiny sensor planted in their brains. It describes how two people who lost use of their arms and legs because of strokes years before were able to control free-standing robotic arms with the help of a tiny sensor implanted in their brains. The computer was taught how to interpret the brain patterns through practice as the paralyzed participants watched the robot arms move and then imagined that they were moving their own arms the same way." (info)
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- May 16, 2012: Computer science and IT. Guardian. "Some universities are encouraging students to develop and market their own ideas, and, through this, a number of students manage to do some freelance work while they study, which will look good on the CV and will also bring in some extra cash. What job can I get?More than half of computing and IT graduates get jobs in the industry in technical fields, such as computer operations, computer systems sales and service, programming, software development, software engineering, or find work as analysts and programme writers. This could mean working in specific IT firms or in companies outside the industry that use computers as a core part of the job, perhaps managing the computing needs of an advertising firm's employees. If you graduate bursting with ideas, or with some freelance work under your belt, then perhaps you could consider setting up your business or developing your existing work." (info)
AIOverview Please rate the relevance of this story:
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- May 18, 2012: Cognitive software captures experts performance on flight simulators. Kurzweilai. "Navy pilots and other flight specialists soon will have a new smart machine installed in training simulators that learns from expert instructors to more efficiently train their students. AEMASE is a cognitive software application that updates its knowledge of experts performance on training simulators in real time to prevent training sessions from becoming obsolete and automatically evaluates student performance, both of which reduce overall training costs, Abbott said. Melissa Walwanis, a senior research psychologist at the Naval Air Warfare Centers Training System Division in Orlando, Fla., said AEMASE will give Navy trainees specific ways to improve performance through machine learning, automated performance measurement, and recordings of trainees voices during the training sessions. Just as search engines find certain words across the Internet, AEMASE scans hundreds of training sessions to find specific actions or scenarios and makes comparisons, Abbott said." (info)
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- May 17, 2012: AI uprising: humans will be outsourced, not obliterated (Wired UK). www.wired.co.uk (User submitted). "Forget about The Terminator, the real problem with AI (artificial intelligence) is what to do when it meets your boss or even your friends. He believes that humanity faces the risk of a more 9-to-5 style apocalypse, whereby a superhuman AI could (whether through its own logic or on the orders of other humans) out-compete the rest of us economically and even socially, rendering human beings obsolete and disposable. "AI would be able to use its superpowers to accumulate vast fortunes on the stock exchange, or even 'be Google', as AI would be cheaper and more productive than the human workers currently employed. Any AI regime, Armstrong maintains, is likely to be a very uncomfortable place for us "meatbags", as this Alpha AI on steroids is likely to be totalitarian or extremist in outlook, committed to "utility maximising, as it's hard to code for reduced impact, and if it doesn't use all the resources then someone else can", and ultimately supplanting our human values with its "alien ones"......" (info)
Ethics, AIOverview Please rate the relevance of this story:
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- May 19, 2012: New software aids visually impaired. Pacific Daily News via Google News. "Written by Katrina Palanca For Pacific Sunday News Apple device's voice-over and text-to-speech recognition software makes hands-free use a cinch, but the capabilities extend even further. The New Vision Guam organization took one step in this direction by holding a seminar yesterday to demonstrate the latest in Apple's computer touch technology. If the user double tapped a news app, for example, the Apple device's voice-over technology will initiate text-to-speech recognition and read aloud the latest news to the user. The demonstration, held at the Guam System for Assistive Technology, had a variety of Apple products available on-site for a hands-on experience." (info)
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