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Artificial Intelligence Is Not as Smart as You (or Elon Musk) Think

Ron Miller | Tech Crunch | July 25, 2017

In March 2016, DeepMind’s AlphaGo beat Lee Sedol, who at the time was the best human Go player in the world. It represented one of those defining technological moments like IBM’s Deep Blue beating chess champion Garry Kasparov, or even IBM Watson beating the world’s greatest Jeopardy! champions in 2011. Yet these victories, as mind-blowing as they seemed to be, were more about training algorithms and using brute-force computational strength than any real intelligence...

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Exclusive: Giving Stephen Hawking A Voice

Joao Medeiros | WIRED UK | December 2, 2014

Stephen Hawking first met Gordon Moore, the cofounder of Intel, at a conference in 1997. Moore noticed that Hawking's computer, which he used to communicate, had an AMD processor and asked him if he preferred instead a "real computer" with an Intel micro-processor...

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Google's Release of TensorFlow Could be a Game-changer in the Future of AI

The development of smarter and more pervasive artificial intelligence (AI) is about to shift into overdrive with the announcement by Google this week that TensorFlow, its second-generation machine-learning system, will be made available free to anyone who wants to use it. Machine learning emulates the way the human brain learns about the world, recognising patterns and relationships, understanding language and coping with ambiguity. This is the technology that already provides the smarts for Google’s image and speech recognition, foreign language translation and various other applications. This is valuable technology, and it is now open source; the source code is freely available and can be modified, developed in new directions and redistributed in the same way that the Linux operating system is open.

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New Study: 'Cloud Of Things' Could Make Customer Service Better, Humanity Worse

Adrienne Lafrance | The Atlantic | May 14, 2014

Experts predict technology will improve daily transactions by 2025, but there are major caveats...

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Stephen Hawking's New Speech System Is Free And Open-Source

Katie Collins | WIRED | December 2, 2014

Intel has today unveiled a new open-source communication system created especially for Professor Stephen Hawking, which can be adapted for the three million people worldwide who suffer from quadriplegia and motor neurone disease...

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The Open-Source Software Stephen Hawking Says Changed His Life

Nick Heath | TechRepublic | December 2, 2014

The famous physicist [Stephen Hawking] talks about how he spent three years working with Intel to devise new software that makes it simpler for him to communicate with the world...

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Why Intel Made Stephen Hawking's Speech System Open Source

Intel has announced the release Stephen Hawking's speech system as open source, encouraging innovation and improvements that could open up the technology to people with physical disabilities throughout the world. Stephen Hawking, who is probably one of the best scientific minds of our time, was diagnosed with ALS at the age of 21. This slowly paralyzed him and eventually took his ability to talk, but with the help of a unique speech system, he found his voice again...