Welcome to the Momenta Learning News on Artificial Intelligence. This is issue 63, please feel free to share this post.
Earlier this month, Bill Gates took the stage at the Recode conference to talk about philanthropy with his wife, Melinda. They discussed mobile payments, contraception, and billionaires giving away their fortunes. Then the conversation turned to artificial intelligence, and Gates grinned and swiveled in his giant red leather chair.
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BOSTON: In a breakthrough, scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system – using videos from YouTube and popular TV shows – that can predict whether two people will hug, kiss or shake hands.
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There are some very good questions being asked about artificial intelligence, and some very good answers on both sides from some very intelligent people. But which do you find more convincing? The Drum presents the case for and against as part of a recently published issue of the magazine, guest edited using AI.
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As artificial intelligence emerges from science fiction to everyday life, the power to shape and direct this world-changing technology remains within society’s reach. That overarching theme animated a crowd of more than 300 people at a Stanford event Thursday evening. The discussion was titled, “The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Emerging Topics and Societal Benefit.”
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​Registration has just opened up for an all new XPrize, focusing on getting humans collaborating better with AI tech to solve major global issues. Unlike previous competitions, the IBM Watson AI XPrize doesn’t feature a set of pre-determined goals, but challenges teams to come up with their own.
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With the help of artificial intelligence, doctors can potentially improve their accuracy in diagnosing cancer and other diseases, researchers from the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical School (HMS) have shown.
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The Stanford campus has been buzzing this week over the 2016 Global Entrepreneurship Summit, which kicked off here yesterday. This three-day event unites an estimated 1,500 entrepreneurs, academics and investors from around the world in a series of talks and panels designed to spark new ideas and partnerships.
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Speaking with Claudia Hammond on Radio 4’s ‘All in the Mind’ programme, Professor Rose Luckin argues that artificial intelligence (AI) could remove the anxiety around school exams. New research being undertaken by the Knowledge Lab suggests that AI could be used to carry out much more nuanced assessments than the current approach, which only gives a snapshot of a student’s ability.
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When most people think of artificial intelligence (AI) they think of HAL 9000 from “2001: A Space Odyssey,” Data from “Star Trek,” or more recently, the android Ava from “Ex Machina.” But to a computer scientist that isn’t what AI necessarily is, and the question “what is AI?”
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Scientists, including one of Indian-origin, have developed a new artificial intelligence software that can turn any smartphone into an eye-tracking device. Eye-tracking technology – which can determine where in a visual scene people are directing their gaze – has been widely used in psychological experiments and marketing research, but the required pricey hardware has kept it from finding consumer applications.
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