Wednesday, July 31, 2019
The Tools for Covering Tech Are the Same as in 2009
July 31, 2019 at 04:00PM
John Herrman, who writes about the internet, is using many of the same tech tools as a decade ago — but the conversation around how we use them has changed.
Cisco to Pay $8.6 Million to Settle Government Claims of Flawed Tech
August 01, 2019 at 01:11AM
The Silicon Valley company, a major government contractor, was accused of selling video surveillance software that it knew had a security issue.
Newsroom: US: Travel Industry Surpasses CPG in Digital Ad Spending; Auto Falls Below Financial Services
July 30, 2019 at 07:01AM
Retail leads digital, video, and mobile spending July 31, 2019 (New York, NY) – eMarketer expects a shift in US digital ad spending next year, as economic factors weigh on […]
LightSail-2 Mission Shows Solar Sailing’s Potential for Spaceflight
July 31, 2019 at 11:40PM
The spacecraft’s controllers on Earth succeeded in steering the spacecraft, demonstrating that mylar sails used for propulsion.
London Lab Advances Use of A.I. in Health Care, but Raises Privacy Concerns
July 31, 2019 at 09:25PM
DeepMind is at the forefront of bringing artificial intelligence to health care. That its parent company is Alphabet raises issues of patient privacy.
And Now, a Bicycle Built for None
July 31, 2019 at 08:02PM
It’s not the first self-driving bike. But equipped with an A.I. chip, it may be the nearest to thinking for itself.
Newsroom: US: Travel Industry Surpasses CPG in Digital Ad Spending; Auto Falls Below Financial Services
July 30, 2019 at 07:01AM
Retail leads digital, video, and mobile spending July 31, 2019 (New York, NY) – eMarketer expects a shift in US digital ad spending next year, as economic factors weigh on […]
How Phones Made the World Your Office, Like It or Not
July 31, 2019 at 01:53PM
From desk to car to pocket.
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
For Big Banks, It’s an Endless Fight With Hackers
July 31, 2019 at 02:43AM
An engineer in Seattle was charged with stealing the information of millions of customers from Capital One. The incident was surprisingly common.
Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth, Again
July 30, 2019 at 11:30PM
The Silicon Valley behemoth said that its revenue rose slightly in the most recent quarter, but profits still fell as iPhone sales continued to decline.
A New Way to Fight Crop Diseases, With a Smartphone
July 30, 2019 at 07:06PM
A hand-held device could help farmers identify blighted plants, and perhaps reduce agricultural losses. It’s like a strep test for tomatoes and tubers.
Huawei’s Sales Jump Despite Trump’s Blacklisting
July 30, 2019 at 01:05PM
Executives at the Chinese tech giant sounded exuberant about the firm’s ability to thrive, even if it ends up fully cut off from American technology.
Fortnite Is Here to Stay. Just Ask Its Competitors.
July 30, 2019 at 12:00PM
Battle royale, a “fight for survival” genre popularized by Fortnite, has inspired imitators hoping to cash in. But there are signs that the market has reached a plateau.
When Online Procrastination Is Your Job
July 25, 2019 at 12:18PM
There’s a reason that logging off is very important to Amanda Hess, a critic at large who covers the internet and the culture it creates.
Huawei’s Sales Jump Despite Trump’s Blacklisting
July 30, 2019 at 10:27AM
Executives at the Chinese tech giant sounded exuberant about the firm’s ability to thrive, even if it ends up fully cut off from American technology.
Your Next iPhone Might Be Made in Vietnam. Thank the Trade War.
July 30, 2019 at 10:00AM
Samsung already assembles half of its handsets in the country, which got a big lift from U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods. Now Apple is homing in.
Toby Walsh, A.I. Expert, Is Racing to Stop the Killer Robots
July 30, 2019 at 09:30AM
Autonomous weapons, capable of acting without human oversight, are closer than we think, Dr. Walsh believes, and must be banned.
Would You Want a Computer to Judge Your Risk of H.I.V. Infection?
July 30, 2019 at 09:30AM
A new software algorithm decides which patients are most likely to become infected with the virus. But this is not like other risk calculators, some experts say.
Monday, July 29, 2019
Cuba Expands Internet Access to Private Homes and Businesses
July 30, 2019 at 01:51AM
While Cuba went online in the 1990s, it has lagged behind much of the world in the race toward greater connectivity. For years, access remained prohibitively expensive and tightly controlled.
Uber Lays Off 400 as Profitability Doubts Linger After I.P.O.
July 29, 2019 at 11:41PM
The ride-hailing company’s cuts follow an internal reorganization and questions about whether it can make money.
How Has Fortnite Affected Your Family?
July 29, 2019 at 11:32PM
We want to hear how parents and young players perceive the video game’s positive and negative impacts.
Bending It Like Bamboo
July 29, 2019 at 05:00PM
Weaver and artist Alison Grace Martin uses non-Euclidean geometry to explore a flexible plant’s architectural potential.
A Guide to Picking the Right Phone Plan
July 25, 2019 at 08:08AM
When you prepare to buy a new phone, you should also assess whether it’s time for a new wireless plan. Here are some steps to make that process easy.
Sunday, July 28, 2019
Facebook Connected Her to a Tattooed Soldier in Iraq. Or So She Thought.
July 29, 2019 at 07:14AM
Renee Holland sent her Facebook friend thousands of dollars. She became entwined in a global fraud that the social network and the United States military appear helpless to stop.
5 Things to Know About Military Romance Scams on Facebook
July 29, 2019 at 06:32AM
Here’s how victims are hooked, and what Facebook and the United States military say they can (and cannot) do about it.
Why Whole Foods Hasn’t Satisfied Amazon’s Grocery Appetite
July 28, 2019 at 09:58PM
Instead of Whole Foods being the answer to the tech behemoth’s grocery ambitions, it seems to have encouraged executives to pursue other ideas, too.
Everybody Hates the Key Card. Will Your Phone Replace It?
July 28, 2019 at 02:57PM
Technology that allows hotel guests to use their phones as room keys is expanding, taking aim at those environmentally unfriendly plastic cards.
Friday, July 26, 2019
Sprint and T-Mobile Loved to Attack Each Other. Then They Decided to Merge.
July 26, 2019 at 08:16PM
After years of public spats that took the form of attack ads and needling tweets, two longtime foes join forces at last.
Privacy Group Files Legal Challenge to Facebook’s $5 Billion F.T.C. Settlement
July 26, 2019 at 07:26PM
The Electronic Privacy Information Center says the deal would unfairly dismiss thousands of complaints against the tech giant.
Facebook Love Scams: Who’s Really Behind That Friend Request?
July 26, 2019 at 06:42PM
A New TV Show from The New York Times on FX and Hulu
T-Mobile-Sprint Merger Is Approved by Justice Dept., Clearing Major Hurdle
July 26, 2019 at 06:30PM
The deal would reshape the wireless industry and create a formidable rival to AT&T and Verizon.
The Week in Tech: Huge Fines Can’t Hide America’s Lack of a Data Privacy Law
July 26, 2019 at 04:00PM
Rules protecting user data could encourage companies to behave better, but there’s little agreement in Washington about what they should look like.
In Hong Kong Protests, Faces Become Weapons
July 26, 2019 at 12:00PM
A technology-driven quest to identify protesters and police officers has people in both groups desperate to protect their anonymity. Some fear a turn toward China-style surveillance.
Voices in AI – Episode 92: A Conversation with Chris Duffery
July 25, 2019 at 03:00PM
[voices_in_ai_byline]
About this Episode
Episode 92 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with Chris Duffey about the nature of creativity and how machine intelligence can interact with creative concepts.
Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com
Transcript Excerpt
Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm and I’m Byron Reese. Today my guest is Chris Duffey. He spearheads Adobe’s Creative Cloud strategic development partnerships across the creative enterprise space. His keynotes have received over 50 million impressions. His work has been featured in a hundred or more global media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Inc, Adweek and on and on and on. He’s also the author of Superhuman Innovation: Transforming Businesses with Artificial Intelligence. Welcome to the show, Chris.
Chris Duffey: Thanks for having me. Great to be here.
I’d like to start off with: what is intelligence? How would you answer that and why is artificial intelligence ‘artificial’?
Great question. Love that question. You know specific to artificial intelligence, I always default to the definition that AI is the study and design of intelligent agents that are able to not only perceive their environment but also act on it. Maybe a higher level definition of just human intelligence.
And it’s interesting that there’s some theories that it can be defined in nine categories or nine different aspects of intelligence: that of intrapersonal, that of spatial, that of naturalist, musical, logical or mathematical, existential, interpersonal, bodily and then linguistic. So those are kind of the two definitions that I refer to for both AI, as well as human intelligence. Even maybe a third aspect of that is—like the old quote “the true sign of intelligence is imagination” and that’s where I have a personal fascination of this intersection of artificial intelligence to help amplify human intelligence.
So you said “perceive their environment and act on it.” Would that go all the way down to say, a cat food dish that can tell when it’s empty and then refills itself?
I think that would be a very mechanical example of a tool that is being used to enhance…
Is ‘perceive’ really the right word? Does a computer perceive anything or does it just measure things?
Yeah, I think that’s an accurate word exchange.
Because it seems like we use all these words like the computer ‘sees’ this, the computer ‘knows’ this, the computer ‘figures out’ that. I think we use those words because we don’t have equivalent mechanistic… we’re not used to machines doing what computers do, so we have to use these human words.
But do you think one runs the risk that somehow gives people a heightened sense that the computer really is a thing that has a ‘self’ and all the rest?
Yeah, I think we do run a tendency to almost anthropomorphize artificial intelligence, whereas you know at the end of the day it’s a machine. We are biological humans. So you know maybe there is some ‘self projection’ for lack of better words, or better categories to apply to them. But I agree they are machines, mechanical entities that sometimes we apply human qualities to because of a lack of other reference points.
Well if we’re gonna use the term ‘machine’ to mean like a device that is completely governed by the laws of physics(because you know it’s deterministic, you crank it up and it runs), do you believe that people are machines? Are our brains just machines?
Without a doubt we are biological creatures. So by no means are we machines. I think we’re completely two different entities. We create the machines and we are biological, so I think there is a very distinct difference in my mind.
But you know the old argument that if you figure out what a neuron does and then you reproduce that and then we figure out what every one of your neurons is and we build that, I mean at what point could we not build something that when you turned it on, is you, or identical to you?
You know I think with the course and history of artificial intelligence, there’s been this tendency to recreate the human mind. Whereas I’m of the mind where AI should be purpose driven and task driven, so more of a narrow AI viewpoint on things rather than a general AI aspect to things.
But back to your reference [to] the neurons. I think that there again we’re talking about biology, and biology can be somewhat cloned or duplicated in a biological environment, but we’re almost playing with different ingredients. If someone is trying to create an AGI using computational sources, again I think they are different distinct entities.
Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com
[voices_in_ai_link_back]
Byron explores issues around artificial intelligence and conscious computers in his new book The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity.
SoftBank Unveils New Tech Fund to Expand Its Sprawling Portfolio
July 26, 2019 at 07:33AM
The Japanese conglomerate behind investments in Uber, WeWork and Bytedance has attracted $108 billion for the new Vision Fund 2.
Thursday, July 25, 2019
Alphabet Earnings: Profits Triple and Slump Worries Ease
July 26, 2019 at 01:49AM
Wall Street was concerned that ad sales were slowing for Google’s parent company. But analysts are still looking for growth in other business lines.
Apple Pays $1 Billion for Part of Intel’s Modem Business
July 26, 2019 at 01:22AM
The iPhone maker is adding patents and 2,200 Intel employees as it tries to reduce dependency on another chip maker, Qualcomm.
Chris Hughers, a Facebook Founder, Is Working With the Government to Break It Up
July 25, 2019 at 10:34PM
Mr. Hughes has joined two leading academics to argue to government officials that Facebook has engaged in anticompetitive behavior for almost a decade.
Amazon Earnings: Just How Impatient Are Shoppers?
July 25, 2019 at 10:32PM
Amazon has expanded one-day shipping options in hopes of increasing sales.
Calls Mount to Ease Big Tech’s Grip on Your Data
July 25, 2019 at 10:00AM
The wealth of some tech giants is built on harvesting and commercializing personal data. Advocates for a new deal on data are gaining momentum.
Tulsi Gabbard, Democratic Presidential Candidate, Sues Google
July 25, 2019 at 08:27PM
The candidate claims Google shut down her ad account after the first debate in June, preventing her from capitalizing on new interest.
Instagram Is Great for Models. It’s Also Good for Predators.
July 25, 2019 at 07:40PM
The platform can create a path to success for many young women. Scammers and abusers know it.
Voices in AI – Episode 92: A Conversation with Chris Duffery
July 25, 2019 at 03:00PM
[voices_in_ai_byline]
About this Episode
Episode 92 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with Chris Duffey about the nature of creativity and how machine intelligence can interact with creative concepts.
Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com
Transcript Excerpt
Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm and I’m Byron Reese. Today my guest is Chris Duffey. He spearheads Adobe’s Creative Cloud strategic development partnerships across the creative enterprise space. His keynotes have received over 50 million impressions. His work has been featured in a hundred or more global media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Inc, Adweek and on and on and on. He’s also the author of Superhuman Innovation: Transforming Businesses with Artificial Intelligence. Welcome to the show, Chris.
Chris Duffey: Thanks for having me. Great to be here.
I’d like to start off with: what is intelligence? How would you answer that and why is artificial intelligence ‘artificial’?
Great question. Love that question. You know specific to artificial intelligence, I always default to the definition that AI is the study and design of intelligent agents that are able to not only perceive their environment but also act on it. Maybe a higher level definition of just human intelligence.
And it’s interesting that there’s some theories that it can be defined in nine categories or nine different aspects of intelligence: that of intrapersonal, that of spatial, that of naturalist, musical, logical or mathematical, existential, interpersonal, bodily and then linguistic. So those are kind of the two definitions that I refer to for both AI, as well as human intelligence. Even maybe a third aspect of that is—like the old quote “the true sign of intelligence is imagination” and that’s where I have a personal fascination of this intersection of artificial intelligence to help amplify human intelligence.
So you said “perceive their environment and act on it.” Would that go all the way down to say, a cat food dish that can tell when it’s empty and then refills itself?
I think that would be a very mechanical example of a tool that is being used to enhance…
Is ‘perceive’ really the right word? Does a computer perceive anything or does it just measure things?
Yeah, I think that’s an accurate word exchange.
Because it seems like we use all these words like the computer ‘sees’ this, the computer ‘knows’ this, the computer ‘figures out’ that. I think we use those words because we don’t have equivalent mechanistic… we’re not used to machines doing what computers do, so we have to use these human words.
But do you think one runs the risk that somehow gives people a heightened sense that the computer really is a thing that has a ‘self’ and all the rest?
Yeah, I think we do run a tendency to almost anthropomorphize artificial intelligence, whereas you know at the end of the day it’s a machine. We are biological humans. So you know maybe there is some ‘self projection’ for lack of better words, or better categories to apply to them. But I agree they are machines, mechanical entities that sometimes we apply human qualities to because of a lack of other reference points.
Well if we’re gonna use the term ‘machine’ to mean like a device that is completely governed by the laws of physics(because you know it’s deterministic, you crank it up and it runs), do you believe that people are machines? Are our brains just machines?
Without a doubt we are biological creatures. So by no means are we machines. I think we’re completely two different entities. We create the machines and we are biological, so I think there is a very distinct difference in my mind.
But you know the old argument that if you figure out what a neuron does and then you reproduce that and then we figure out what every one of your neurons is and we build that, I mean at what point could we not build something that when you turned it on, is you, or identical to you?
You know I think with the course and history of artificial intelligence, there’s been this tendency to recreate the human mind. Whereas I’m of the mind where AI should be purpose driven and task driven, so more of a narrow AI viewpoint on things rather than a general AI aspect to things.
But back to your reference [to] the neurons. I think that there again we’re talking about biology, and biology can be somewhat cloned or duplicated in a biological environment, but we’re almost playing with different ingredients. If someone is trying to create an AGI using computational sources, again I think they are different distinct entities.
Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com
[voices_in_ai_link_back]
Byron explores issues around artificial intelligence and conscious computers in his new book The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity.
Ad Tool Facebook Built to Fight Disinformation Doesn’t Work as Advertised
July 25, 2019 at 12:00PM
The social network’s new ad library is so flawed, researchers say, that it is effectively useless as a way to track political messaging.
Wednesday, July 24, 2019
Facebook Says F.T.C. Has Opened Formal Antitrust Investigation
July 25, 2019 at 12:42AM
The announcement of the investigation dovetails with a separate privacy settlement between the F.T.C. and Facebook announced Wednesday.
Tesla Earnings: Analysts Expect a Loss Despite Sales Surge
July 24, 2019 at 09:59PM
The carmaker delivered a record number of cars in the second quarter but is expected to have lost money because sales of higher-priced models lagged.
A Guide to Picking the Right Phone Plan
July 24, 2019 at 06:54PM
When you prepare to buy a new phone, you should also assess whether it’s time for a new wireless plan. Here are some steps to make that process easy.
When Online Procrastination Is Your Job
July 24, 2019 at 12:00PM
There’s a reason that logging off is very important to Amanda Hess, a critic-at-large who covers the internet and the culture it creates.
Bird Is Said to Raise New Funding at $2.5 Billion Valuation
July 23, 2019 at 02:41AM
The new valuation is only slightly above the $2.3 billion that Bird was pegged at last year.
With $1 Billion From Microsoft, an A.I. Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain
July 22, 2019 at 04:00PM
OpenAI, now managed by start-up guru Sam Altman, wants to create a machine that can do anything the human brain can do. Skeptics wonder if it is possible.
DoorDash Changes Tipping Model After Uproar
July 24, 2019 at 05:11PM
Following a New York Times article, the company dropped a policy that effectively meant tips were going to it rather than delivery workers.
Facebook Fined $5 Billion and Ordered to Add Oversight of Data Practices
July 24, 2019 at 04:40PM
The F.T.C. placed new conditions on Facebook for privacy violations, but did not restrict the social network’s ability to gather and use people’s personal information.
Facebook Fined $5 Billion and Ordered to Add Oversight of Data Practices
July 24, 2019 at 04:40PM
The F.T.C. placed new conditions on Facebook for privacy violations, but did not restrict the social network’s ability to gather and use people’s personal information.
YouTube Is a Big Business. Just How Big Is Anyone’s Guess.
July 24, 2019 at 10:00AM
As Alphabet prepares to report quarterly earnings, investors will largely remain in the dark about one of its most important businesses.
Tuesday, July 23, 2019
Justice Department Opens Antitrust Review of Big Tech Companies
July 24, 2019 at 02:28AM
The agency said it would look into concerns about anticompetitive behavior by some of the industry’s biggest companies.
Your Data Were ‘Anonymized’? These Scientists Can Still Identify You
July 23, 2019 at 10:33PM
Computer scientists have developed an algorithm that can pick out almost any American in databases supposedly stripped of personal information.
Five Women Who Made the Moon Landing Possible
July 23, 2019 at 09:29PM
That “giant leap for mankind” happened thanks to plenty of women.
Sailing Through Space on Solar Wind? LightSail 2 Will Try
July 23, 2019 at 08:15PM
The Planetary Society will attempt to deploy LightSail 2 and further demonstrate the potential for solar sailing for space travel.
How to Get a $5,000 Amazon Credit: Buy a House Through Realogy
July 23, 2019 at 02:15PM
The online retailer is teaming with an owner of real estate brokerage firms to offer home buyers free Alexa speakers and services like furniture assembly.
Monday, July 22, 2019
Two Police Officers Are Fired Over Facebook Post Saying Ocasio-Cortez ‘Needs a Round’
July 23, 2019 at 05:30AM
One police officer from Gretna, La., referred to the congresswoman as a “vile idiot” and suggested she should be shot. Another officer liked the post.
Bird Is Said to Raise New Funding at $2.5 Billion Valuation
July 23, 2019 at 02:41AM
The new valuation is only slightly above the $2.3 billion that Bird was pegged at last year.
With $1 Billion From Microsoft, an A.I. Lab Wants to Mimic the Brain
July 22, 2019 at 04:00PM
OpenAI, now managed by start-up guru Sam Altman, wants to create a machine that can do anything the human brain can do. Skeptics wonder if it is possible.
Sunday, July 21, 2019
Start-Up Says It’s Changing Eye Care for the Better. Others See It Differently.
July 22, 2019 at 01:25AM
Hubble offers customers contact lens subscriptions at low monthly prices. Critics say it bypasses eye care professionals, doesn’t properly vet prescriptions and takes advantage of federal regulations to the detriment of consumers.
Saturday, July 20, 2019
The Week in Business: A Suddenly Vulnerable Netflix
July 20, 2019 at 08:48PM
Plus, the fight for a $15 minimum wage and a Russian viral app that may be dangerous. (It’s not. It just makes you look older.)
Just Before the Eagle Landed, an Alien Arrived in Our Living Room
July 20, 2019 at 12:45PM
Until the Apollo 11 mission, my family didn’t have a television. Then, for one weekend, we joined the rest of Planet Earth.
Friday, July 19, 2019
Most Wikipedia Profiles Are of Men. This Scientist Is Changing That.
July 19, 2019 at 04:55PM
Jessica Wade has added nearly 700 Wikipedia biographies for important female and minority scientists in less than two years.
How We Augmented Our Original Reporting for the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing
July 19, 2019 at 04:27PM
The Times’s Graphics, Science and Immersive Storytelling teams shine a new light on the iconic photography from the first moonwalk.
The Week in Tech: Some Workers Hate Robots. Retraining May Change That.
July 19, 2019 at 04:00PM
Striking Amazon employees complained about how robots changed their jobs, but the company may help them think differently.
Thursday, July 18, 2019
Will Hiding Like Counts Be Good for Instagram Users? Test Is Expanded to 6 More Countries
July 19, 2019 at 06:10AM
The social media platform theorizes that the move may reduce pressure on users.
Sorry, You Won’t Be Hovering Over Paris Anytime Soon
July 18, 2019 at 11:06PM
Though the sky is ripe for disruption with jetpacks and flying cars, we are stuck on the ground partly because we want to be.
Why Are These Mice Hallucinating? Scientists Are in Their Heads
July 18, 2019 at 10:07PM
New laser technology appeared to trigger particular images in the brains of lab mice.
Microsoft Earnings: Tech’s Quiet Giant Keeps Its Focus on the Cloud
July 18, 2019 at 09:28PM
Can the largest publicly traded company continue to get more out of its cloud-computing business?
This New Liquid is Magnetic, and Mesmerizing
July 18, 2019 at 09:00PM
Scientists have created “soft” magnets that can flow and change shape, and that could be a boon to medicine and robotics.
8 Podcasts for the Tech Curious
July 18, 2019 at 06:07PM
Following the latest innovations in science and technology may seem daunting, but these podcasts can help.
Is Huawei a Security Threat? Vietnam Isn’t Taking Any Chances
July 18, 2019 at 05:56PM
As the world splits along U.S.-China fault lines, telecom companies in Vietnam appear to be quietly avoiding the Chinese tech giant in their 5G plans.
Qualcomm Is Fined Again by European Regulators for Antitrust Behavior
July 18, 2019 at 03:24PM
The $272 million fine is for blocking a rival chip maker from the market. It is the second time in two years that E.U. authorities have penalized Qualcomm.
How The Times Analyzed the Migrant Center Airstrike
July 18, 2019 at 12:00AM
It seemed too outrageous that such a place would be bombed, but if it were true it might be a war crime. It was the middle of the night in Libya. How could we verify the claim?
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
FaceApp Lets You ‘Age’ a Photo by Decades. Does It Also Violate Your Privacy?
July 18, 2019 at 02:36AM
Some security concerns raised about the app at the center of a popular social media trend are exaggerated, but experts say the developer should be more transparent.
Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Faces Second Day of Critical Hearings
July 17, 2019 at 11:26PM
Skeptical House committee members said Facebook’s Libra plans could be a threat to central banks and aid tax evaders and drug dealers.
When ‘Good Stories’ Happen for Bad Reasons
July 17, 2019 at 08:15PM
We take comfort in news about viral acts of kindness toward the sick, the poor and others in need, experts say, but there’s a catch.
Amazon Faces E.U. Inquiry Over Data From Independent Sellers
July 17, 2019 at 05:29PM
European antitrust regulators have opened an investigation into the data that Amazon uses from third-party sellers who rely on the tech company’s site
Covering Protests Where There Is a Distrust of Social Media
July 17, 2019 at 04:00PM
Daniel Victor, a reporter in Hong Kong, on why protesters there chose not to go after the Instagram moments while marching.
The Sad Truth About Sleep-Tracking Devices and Apps
July 17, 2019 at 04:00PM
Our personal tech columnist tracked his sleep for two weeks with an Apple Watch and some software. Here’s why he concluded it was a pointless exercise.
One Small Step for Experimental Space Gear. Many Giant Leaps of Imagination.
July 17, 2019 at 12:00PM
A gallery of scenes from when the space age was young and extraterrestrial travel looked fun.
Despite High Hopes, Self-Driving Cars Are ‘Way in the Future’
July 17, 2019 at 12:00PM
Ford and other companies say the industry overestimated the arrival of autonomous vehicles, which still struggle to anticipate what other drivers and pedestrians will do.
Google Glass Has an Afterlife as a Device to Teach Autistic Children
July 17, 2019 at 12:00PM
Privacy concerns caused the computerized eyewear to fail with the general public. But researchers believe it could help autistic children learn to recognize emotion and make eye contact.
Tuesday, July 16, 2019
Elon Musk’s Company Takes Baby Steps to Wiring Brains to the Internet
July 17, 2019 at 06:00AM
Neuralink, a San Francisco company funded by Mr. Musk, says it has created a device that could one day wire data links directly to the brain.
‘I Don’t Trust You Guys’: Lawmakers Unite to Take Aim at Big Tech
July 17, 2019 at 02:58AM
A series of hearings on Capitol Hill showed the rising force of the political backlash against the country’s tech giants.
Europe Billed Its Answer to GPS as More Robust. It’s Been Mostly Down for Days.
July 16, 2019 at 08:51PM
The European Union sees the service as a way to end the bloc’s reliance on GPS, which the American military controls.
Senators Grill Facebook Executive on Company’s Cryptocurrency Plans
July 16, 2019 at 06:58PM
Members of the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday raised broad concerns about its Libra effort, which the company introduced last month.
As New Space Race Beckons, Astronauts Face Identity Crisis
July 16, 2019 at 01:37PM
With the private sector moving aggressively into space, NASA is no longer the only game in town for would-be space travelers.
Don’t Scoff at Influencers. They’re Taking Over the World.
July 16, 2019 at 12:59PM
As social media expands its cultural dominance, the people who can steer the online conversation will have an upper hand.
Voices in AI – Episode 91: A Conversation with Mazin Gilbert
July 11, 2019 at 03:00PM
[voices_in_ai_byline]
About this Episode
Episode 91 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with Mazin Gilbert from AT&T Labs about the nature of intelligence and why we have so much trouble defining it.
Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com
Transcript Excerpt
Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm. I’m Byron Reese. Today my guest is Mazin Gilbert. He’s a VP of AT&T Labs and their advanced technologies. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Liverpool John Moores University, and if that weren’t enough, an MBA from Wharton as well. Welcome to the show, Mazin.
Mazin Gilbert: Thank you for the invitation, Byron.
I always just like to kind of start out talking about what intelligence is and maybe little different [question], like, why do we have such a hard time defining what intelligence is? Yeah, that’s where I’ll start.
We always think of intelligence, certainly machine intelligence… we always compare machine intelligence to human intelligence, and we sometimes have a challenge in equating machines to humans. The intelligence of machines are radically different than humans. The intelligence is basically the ability to perform functions that may, one, be superior to any basic system to do; or two, require some form of context, some form of interpretation, some form of prediction that is not straightforward to do.
In machine intelligence, we really use that for anywhere from its basic form that could be as simple as moving data from one place to the other, all the way to its most advanced form: to be able to process petabytes of data to tell us how to best optimize traffic in our network. Both of those forms of intelligence, the most basic form and the most intelligent form, [are] absolutely essential to running a communication network.
But I mean, why do you think AI is so hard, because we have a lot of people working on it a whole lot of time, we’ve got a bunch of money in it, and yet it seems that we still don’t have machines able to do just the simplest, most rudimentary, common-sense things. I haven’t ever found an AI bot that can answer the question: ‘what’s bigger—a nickel or the sun?’ Why is that so hard?
I think we segregate AI into two classes. One class of AI are sort of rule based systems. So these are expert systems that we’ve been using as a society for decades. These are rudimentary bots. We actually have over 1500 of those deployed in AT&T. They do the rudimentary tasks, think of ‘if-then’ type of statements. They are very basic, but they do some amazing jobs in automating functions that otherwise humans would have to do at a scale, and there’s not enough humans to do those jobs in some cases.
Where it gets harder to understand is this sort of new wave of AI, of machine learning, deep learning based AI. Those are harder to understand because people equate those to some robot having the intelligence of a human, thinking like a human, making decisions like a human, and those don’t really exist today. And even what exists today are still in their rudimentary early forms. The machine learning type of AI that exists today, even in deployments (and we have a bunch of those already), the reason they’re hard is because they are very data driven. That’s the basic concept of an AI machine learning system today, data driven.
We deployed our first commercial AI system for customer care in about in 2000 called ‘How May I Help You,’ and then we had to go collect large amounts of data from our call centers to do the most basic thing. And as a result, there’s only a few of these systems you can build that if you have to go and collect large amount of data and have this data checked, evaluated, labeled by humans, which could take weeks, months, years, so the assistant can learn and do a function, that makes it really hard. So even when you think about for the most largest and commercial deployments today of AI, the Siri and Alexa and others, there are hundreds, if not probably thousands of people behind that…
But that just kind of kicks the can down the street a little, doesn’t it? I guess, then I would say, “Why is building an unsupervised learner so hard?” Why haven’t we been able to just make something that you could point at the internet, it can crawl around and it can sort it out? Why do you think that’s so hard?
So the concept of generalized artificial intelligence, which means that you build intelligence in a system and that system can do anything you want, it can classify internet traffic, it can recognize what you say, it can tell you what kind of an image – this is a cat or a dog, those systems do not exist, not in research, not in any commercial arena, they don’t exist.
What exists today are systems that have been developed, trained by humans to do one narrow function, and those systems are not easy to develop, because of the concept of: not only you need to collect large amounts of data, you need to teach the system what is the truth and what is the right action to take. I think of them as babies. You don’t train a baby in two hours or overnight. You don’t. It takes years to train a baby with a lot of feedback and it also provides feedback and sometimes supervised feedback on what is right, what is wrong, what is a picture, what is not a picture, what’s a word, what’s not a word, how to pronounce something.
That’s sort of what we need is that these systems require years of data collection with a lot of supervision and knowing the truth (just like any baby) for them to even get close to understanding and operating a simple function.
Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com
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Voices in AI – Episode 91: A Conversation with Mazin Gilbert
July 11, 2019 at 03:00PM
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About this Episode
Episode 91 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with Mazin Gilbert from AT&T Labs about the nature of intelligence and why we have so much trouble defining it.
Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com
Transcript Excerpt
Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by Gigaom. I’m Byron Reese. Today my guest is Mazin Gilbert. He’s a VP of AT&T Labs and their advanced technologies. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Liverpool John Moores University, and if that weren’t enough, an MBA from Wharton as well. Welcome to the show, Mazin.
Mazin Gilbert: Thank you for the invitation, Byron.
I always just like to kind of start out talking about what intelligence is and maybe little different [question], like, why do we have such a hard time defining what intelligence is? Yeah, that’s where I’ll start.
We always think of intelligence, certainly machine intelligence… we always compare machine intelligence to human intelligence, and we sometimes have a challenge in equating machines to humans. The intelligence of machines are radically different than humans. The intelligence is basically the ability to perform functions that may, one, be superior to any basic system to do; or two, require some form of context, some form of interpretation, some form of prediction that is not straightforward to do.
In machine intelligence, we really use that for anywhere from its basic form that could be as simple as moving data from one place to the other, all the way to its most advanced form: to be able to process petabytes of data to tell us how to best optimize traffic in our network. Both of those forms of intelligence, the most basic form and the most intelligent form, [are] absolutely essential to running a communication network.
But I mean, why do you think AI is so hard, because we have a lot of people working on it a whole lot of time, we’ve got a bunch of money in it, and yet it seems that we still don’t have machines able to do just the simplest, most rudimentary, common-sense things. I haven’t ever found an AI bot that can answer the question: ‘what’s bigger—a nickel or the sun?’ Why is that so hard?
I think we segregate AI into two classes. One class of AI are sort of rule based systems. So these are expert systems that we’ve been using as a society for decades. These are rudimentary bots. We actually have over 1500 of those deployed in AT&T. They do the rudimentary tasks, think of ‘if-then’ type of statements. They are very basic, but they do some amazing jobs in automating functions that otherwise humans would have to do at a scale, and there’s not enough humans to do those jobs in some cases.
Where it gets harder to understand is this sort of new wave of AI, of machine learning, deep learning based AI. Those are harder to understand because people equate those to some robot having the intelligence of a human, thinking like a human, making decisions like a human, and those don’t really exist today. And even what exists today are still in their rudimentary early forms. The machine learning type of AI that exists today, even in deployments (and we have a bunch of those already), the reason they’re hard is because they are very data driven. That’s the basic concept of an AI machine learning system today, data driven.
We deployed our first commercial AI system for customer care in about in 2000 called ‘How May I Help You,’ and then we had to go collect large amounts of data from our call centers to do the most basic thing. And as a result, there’s only a few of these systems you can build that if you have to go and collect large amount of data and have this data checked, evaluated, labeled by humans, which could take weeks, months, years, so the assistant can learn and do a function, that makes it really hard. So even when you think about for the most largest and commercial deployments today of AI, the Siri and Alexa and others, there are hundreds, if not probably thousands of people behind that…
But that just kind of kicks the can down the street a little, doesn’t it? I guess, then I would say, “Why is building an unsupervised learner so hard?” Why haven’t we been able to just make something that you could point at the internet, it can crawl around and it can sort it out? Why do you think that’s so hard?
So the concept of generalized artificial intelligence, which means that you build intelligence in a system and that system can do anything you want, it can classify internet traffic, it can recognize what you say, it can tell you what kind of an image – this is a cat or a dog, those systems do not exist, not in research, not in any commercial arena, they don’t exist.
What exists today are systems that have been developed, trained by humans to do one narrow function, and those systems are not easy to develop, because of the concept of: not only you need to collect large amounts of data, you need to teach the system what is the truth and what is the right action to take. I think of them as babies. You don’t train a baby in two hours or overnight. You don’t. It takes years to train a baby with a lot of feedback and it also provides feedback and sometimes supervised feedback on what is right, what is wrong, what is a picture, what is not a picture, what’s a word, what’s not a word, how to pronounce something.
That’s sort of what we need is that these systems require years of data collection with a lot of supervision and knowing the truth (just like any baby) for them to even get close to understanding and operating a simple function.
Listen to this episode or read the full transcript at www.VoicesinAI.com
[voices_in_ai_link_back]
Byron explores issues around artificial intelligence and conscious computers in his new book The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity.
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Sheriff – Sheriff merupakan salah sat tim namun bola terbaik jatuh divisi nationa negaranya. Dimana jika di lihat dari hasla pertasi yang sudah di peroleh oleh tim sepak bola Sheriff pada beberapa pertandingan terakhir yang sudah dilangsungkannya. Maka pertandingan yang akan datang datang tim namun mengamuk Sheriff sebagai mendapat pertandingan yang cukup bagus melawan tim sepak bola yang memiliki kemampuan yang lebih baik.
Saburtalo – Saburtalo juga merupakan salah satu yang terbaik di erovnuli liga. Dimana jika dilihat dari hasil beberapa pertandingan terakhir yang sudah dilangsungkannya. Ada alasan terkait mengapa tim perlu diencerkan oleh tim, tetapi masih tidak mungkin bahwa mereka akan dapat melakukannya untuk mencapai tujuan. Namun tim masih terganggu oleh fakta bahwa telah dilaporkan bahwa memperole telah menderita serangan mengerikan.
Statistik Sheriff Vs Saburtalo
Pertemuan ke dua tim di 5 Pertandingan terakhir Sheriff Vs Saburtalo:
kedua tim sepak bola sebelumnya belum pernah bertemu di pertandingan sepak bola
5 Pertandingan Terakhir Bermain Sheriff:
15/06/19 Codru Lozova 0 – 2 Sheriff
22/06/19 Sheriff 2 – 0 Petrocub
25/06/19 Sheriff 12 – 0 Sireţi
30/06/19 Sheriff 3 – 0 Speranza Nisporeni
05/07/19 Sireţi 0 – 15 Sheriff
5 Pertandingan Terakhir Bermain Saburtalo:
15/06/19 Saburtalo 2 – 1 Sioni
18/06/19 Samtredia 1 – 2 Saburtalo
23/06/19 Saburtalo 0 – 0 Dinamo Batumi
25/06/19 Lokomotivi Tbilisi 1 – 0 Saburtalo
03/07/19 Saburtalo 2 – 2 Rustavi
Susunan Pemain Sheriff Vs Saburtalo:
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Handicap Bursa Asia: 1: 0
Atas / Bawah: –
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