MACHINE LEARNING
Did You Hear That? Robots Are Learning the Subtle Sounds of Mechanical Breakdown
Steven Melendez | Fast Company
"'We’re developing an expert mechanic’s brain that identifies...
Never before have businesses been able to build billion-dollar valuations in so little time. Never before have incumbent enterprises been able to go out...
Smart-television maker Vizio agreed to pay a penalty this month for spying on 11 million customers. According to the Federal Trade Commission, the company captured second-by-second information...
The era of "Quantified Self" (a term coined in 2007 by US WIRED founding executive editor Kevin Kelly) is relatively new. The first Fitbit digital step...
When Jan Scheuermann volunteered for an experimental brain implant, she had no idea she was making neuroscience history.
Scheuermann, 54 at the time of surgery,...
From digital currency to machine learning, the financial industry is being rocked by exponential technologies. Blockchain, artificial intelligence, big data, robotics, quantum computing, crowdfunding,...
Living life on the edge isn’t just a motto for extreme athletes.
Our planet is literally crawling with organisms that have somehow adapted to living...
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
—Arthur C Clarke
Medical diagnostics often feels like magic to me. With just a few drops of blood,...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Can Artificial Intelligence Predict Earthquakes?
Annie Sneed | Scientific American
"Along with more sophisticated computing, he and his team are trying something in the...
Today, most of us carry the world in our pockets. Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS)—what most people typically just call GPS—aren’t simply about sending...
Go to any airport and you’ll see wearied travelers huddled around outlets leeching out precious electricity to feed their devices. They aren’t alone in...
Organ donation has saved countless lives, but could donating our personal data have an even more transformative impact on healthcare?
The potential impact of Big...
Wendy was barely 20 years old when she received a devastating diagnosis: juvenile amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), an aggressive neurodegenerative disorder that destroys motor...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Understanding Agent Cooperation
Joel Leibo, Vinicius Zambaldi, Marc Lanctot, Janusz Marecki, Thore Graepel | Google DeepMind Blog
"Recent progress in artificial intelligence and specifically deep reinforcement learning provides...
Accelerating technology has been creating a lot of worry over job loss to automation, especially as machines become capable of doing things they never...
I’m putting out a call for brilliant entrepreneurs who want to enroll in Singularity University’s Global Solutions Program (GSP).
The GSP is where you’ll learn...
Quantum computers promise to crack some of the world’s most intractable problems by super-charging processing power. But the technical challenges involved in building these...
Warren Berger believes questions are more important than answers. A best-selling author and self-proclaimed “questionologist,” Warren is on a mission to help all leaders...
Technology has long been considered a resource-liberating mechanism, granting us better access to resources like information, food and energy. Yet what is often overlooked...
Machine learning, automated vehicles, additive manufacturing and robotics—all popular news headlines, and all technologies that are changing the way the US and the world...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk Backed 23 Principles to Ensure Humanity Benefits From AI
Sam Shead | Business Intelligence
"The principles were developed off the...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
AI Could Transform the Science of Counting Crowds
Jeremy Hsu | IEEE Spectrum
"Crowd counts for politically-charged events such as protests or presidential inaugurations can sometimes spark...
In the quest for ever more powerful computers, researchers are beginning to build quantum computers—machines that exploit the strange properties of physics on the...
Silicon Valley fancies itself the global leader in innovation. Its leaders hype technologies such as bitcoin and blockchain, which some claim are the greatest inventions since...
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Microsoft Thinks Machines Can Learn to Converse by Making Chat a Game
Cade Metz | WIRED
"For Microsoft, winning the game of conversation means winning...
