Artificial Intelligence | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:29:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Artificial Intelligence | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Nvidia’s GANverse3D uses AI to create textured 3D models from 2D images https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/nvidias-ganverse3d-uses-ai-to-create-textured-3d-models-from-2d-images/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/graphic-cards/matthew-wilson/nvidias-ganverse3d-uses-ai-to-create-textured-3d-models-from-2d-images/#respond Fri, 16 Apr 2021 14:52:10 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=512037 For the final day of GTC 2021, Nvidia revealed its latest AI developments. Utilising the Nvidia Omniverse platform and a new tool called GANverse3D, users can create 3D models, complete with mesh and textures, from a single 2D image, all using a trained AI. To showcase this tech in action, Nvidia recreated KITT – the …

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For the final day of GTC 2021, Nvidia revealed its latest AI developments. Utilising the Nvidia Omniverse platform and a new tool called GANverse3D, users can create 3D models, complete with mesh and textures, from a single 2D image, all using a trained AI. To showcase this tech in action, Nvidia recreated KITT – the AI powered car from 80's classic Knight Rider. 

GANverse3D is an application that takes flat 2D images and transforms them into realistic 3D models that can be visualised and controlled in virtual environments. A single photo of a car for example can be turned into a 3D model that can drive around a virtual scene with working functions, including headlights, tail lights and blinkers.

The AI was trained on a dataset of over 50,000 images showcasing multiple view points, allowing the AI to recognise different parts of a car. Nvidia has also trained the AI on birds and horses, but at this point in time, cars still work best. For instance, if you tried feeding the tool an image of a dog, a human or a tree, it would not be able to render a 3D model with the same level of accuracy due to geometric complexity.

Looking towards the future, this tool could enhance workflows for a number of industries, including architects and game developers. While the ‘main subject' of a scene would be modelled by hand, artists and developers could save time by using AI to generate ambient and background content without needing to do it by hand, or by purchasing ready-made assets.

The technology can be adapted to other datasets to produce different results, with Nvidia using birds and horses as the current example. For those really interested in the science behind all of this, you can check out the full ICLR paper, in a briefing with Nvidia attended by KitGuru, we were also told that code for this project will likely be released so other developers can collaborate and iterate on the technology and further AI research.

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KitGuru Says: Over the course of GTC 2021, we've seen a lot of really interesting developments in Nvidia's work with Artificial Intelligence. What do you think of the latest demo and the GANverse3D tool? 

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Update: Microsoft acquires Apple’s Siri partner for $19.7 billion https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/microsoft-in-talks-to-acquire-apples-siri-partner-for-16-billion/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/microsoft-in-talks-to-acquire-apples-siri-partner-for-16-billion/#respond Mon, 12 Apr 2021 10:45:00 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=511425 Update (12/04/21): While we only just heard about Microsoft's negotiations to acquire Nuance in the last 48 hours, things have moved quickly. This afternoon, Microsoft officially announced that it is acquiring Nuance in a deal worth $19.7 billion – the second largest acquisition in the company's history. As expected, this acquisition will be used to …

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Update (12/04/21): While we only just heard about Microsoft's negotiations to acquire Nuance in the last 48 hours, things have moved quickly. This afternoon, Microsoft officially announced that it is acquiring Nuance in a deal worth $19.7 billion – the second largest acquisition in the company's history.

As expected, this acquisition will be used to bolster Microsoft's AI, cloud and healthcare efforts. Speaking on the acquisition deal, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella said: “Nuance provides the AI layer at the healthcare point of delivery and is a pioneer in the real-world application of enterprise AI. AI is technology’s most important priority, and healthcare is its most urgent application. Together, with our partner ecosystem, we will put advanced AI solutions into the hands of professionals everywhere to drive better decision-making and create more meaningful connections”

Nuance CEO, Mark Benjamin, also added a statement: “To seize this opportunity, we need the right platform to bring focus and global scale to our customers and partners to enable more personal, affordable and effective connections to people and care. The path forward is clearly with Microsoft —  who brings intelligent cloud-based services at scale and who shares our passion for the ways technology can make a difference.”

Original Story: Microsoft is in talks for yet another major acquisition, this time centred around bolstering the company's Artificial Intelligence unit. According to sources, Microsoft is in talks to spend roughly $16 billion acquiring Nuance Communications. 

For those who don't know, Nuance Communications is a company that specialises in speech recognition and AI. The company had previously helped with early work on Apple's Siri digital assistant and has gone on to build up its value with a number of acquisitions to build up and improve its platform.

According to Bloomberg, Microsoft has been collaborating with Nuance since 2019 on various technologies, with a particular focus on the health-care industry. Now, Microsoft is looking to join forces with Nuance for good, with a $16 billion offer, which would value the company at $56 USD per share. Notably, the acquisition offer adds a 23 percent premium over the company's current market value.

The agreement is still in the negotiation stages but a deal could be announced as early as next week. This would be the second largest acquisition in Microsoft's history, with the largest being LinkedIn, which was acquired for $26 billion. Currently, Microsoft is also reportedly in talks to acquire gaming chat app Discord for around $10 billion.

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KitGuru Says: Microsoft's business leads have been very busy over the last few years with acquisitions. Microsoft currently has thousands of employees working on AI software, so this particular purchase makes perfect sense as the company continues to try and take on the likes of Google and Apple. 

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Arm announces new processor IPs for AI and machine learning https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/james-dawson/arm-announces-new-processor-ips-for-ai-and-machine-learning/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/james-dawson/arm-announces-new-processor-ips-for-ai-and-machine-learning/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2020 12:18:35 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=451450 Arm has announced details of its latest processors designed for artificial intelligence and machine learning, the Arm Cortex-M55, as well as the first microNPU (Neural Processing Unit), the Ethos-U55 which offer a combined 480x machine learning improvement for microcontrollers. Cortex-M based processors are already powering a vast range of AI products with over 50 billion …

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Arm has announced details of its latest processors designed for artificial intelligence and machine learning, the Arm Cortex-M55, as well as the first microNPU (Neural Processing Unit), the Ethos-U55 which offer a combined 480x machine learning improvement for microcontrollers.

Cortex-M based processors are already powering a vast range of AI products with over 50 billion chips shipped to partners. Arm claims that its latest Cortex-M55 is its most capable AI processor yet and is the company’s first Cortex-M processor to be based on the Armv8.1-M architecture.

Equipped with Arm Helium vector processing technology, the Cortex-M55 offers significantly enhanced energy-efficient, 5x digital signal processing (DSP) performance improvement and 15x machine learning (ML) performance compared to previous Cortex-M generations. In addition, custom instructions will be added to improve processor performance for specific workloads, which is a new feature for Cortex-M series processors.

 

For deployment in systems that require even more processing power, the Cortex-M55 can be paired with the new Ethos-U55, Arm’s first microNPU, to deliver a combined 480x increase in performance for machine learning applications, compared to existing Cortex-M solutions. Ethos-U55 is highly configurable which allows it to accelerate ML inference in area-constrained embedded and IoT devices. A smaller package provides power efficiency improvements as well as allowing the Ethos-U55 to run neural networks in smaller systems.

Both the Cortex-M55 and Ethos-U55 are fully supported by Arm’s Cortex-M toolchain, to allow distribution of traditional DSP and ML workloads and ensure developers have a seamless integration experience while getting the best possible performance out of the new Cortex-M55 and Ethos-U55 combined configuration.

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KitGuru says: AI and IoT devices are everywhere these days, this new processor combination from Arm will allow theses device to become more powerful and even smaller. What do you guys think of these new processors from Arm?

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Sony announces the establishment of ‘Sony AI’ https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/mustafa-mahmoud/sony-announces-the-establishment-of-sony-ai/ https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/mustafa-mahmoud/sony-announces-the-establishment-of-sony-ai/#respond Wed, 20 Nov 2019 17:43:33 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=437245 Sony announced earlier today that it would be establishing a new organisation within the company, focusing on the development of Artificial Intelligence. Unlike many other AI projects however, Sony is tackling the technology in order to “[f]ill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology”, and “unleash[ing] human imagination and creativity with …

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Sony announced earlier today that it would be establishing a new organisation within the company, focusing on the development of Artificial Intelligence. Unlike many other AI projects however, Sony is tackling the technology in order to “[f]ill the world with emotion, through the power of creativity and technology”, and “unleash[ing] human imagination and creativity with AI“.

Offices for the organisation will be based in Japan, Europe, and the United States. According to Sony, “Sony AI will combine world class fundamental research and development with Sony's unique technical assets, especially in Imaging & Sensing Solutions, Robotics and Entertainment (Games, Music and Movies), driving transformation across all existing business domains and contributing to the creation of new business domains. In addition, one of Sony AI's long-term goals is to contribute to the resolution of shared global issues extending beyond Sony's business domains”.

One of the industries that Sony aims to target with this research and technology is the gaming industry, saying “Initially, Sony AI will launch three flagship projects in the areas of gaming, imaging & sensing, and gastronomy. The adoption of new AI technologies developed through these flagship projects will be critical to further enhancing the value of Sony's gaming and sensor businesses in coming years. This research will be pursued in close collaboration with the relevant Sony Group business units”.

While AI has become a recent sector for major tech companies to enter and attempt development in, Sony’s approach appears to be looking at the technology through the lens of creativity, as opposed to virtual assistants such as Alexa or Google Assistant.

Sony is already well known for having developed AIBO, the robotic dog companion, whose function is nothing more than to be a companion. Extending this mentality into the video game market, in particular with VR, which PlayStation has invested in, could lead to potentially interesting and innovative projects within the space.

As graphics have improved year-over-year in video games, AI has remained mostly stagnant. Sony’s reinvigorated push into the market could serve well for both the company’s future, and consumers alike, creating games that “fill the world with emotion”.

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KitGuru says: What do you think of Sony’s new investment in AI? What potential benefits do you see coming from this? What do you think the next big breakthrough in video game AI will be? Let us know down below.

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Intel announce Nervana Neural Network processors https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/james-dawson/intel-announce-nervana-neural-network-processors/ https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/james-dawson/intel-announce-nervana-neural-network-processors/#respond Fri, 15 Nov 2019 11:00:37 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=436321 Intel has announced a new wave of artificial intelligence. Its Nervana Neural Network processors are designed to accelerate AI system development and deployment from cloud to edge, with a new class of AI hardware. At a gathering of industry influencers, Intel demonstrated its new Nervana Neural Network Processor for Training (NNP-T1000) and inference (NNP-I1000). The new …

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Intel has announced a new wave of artificial intelligence. Its Nervana Neural Network processors are designed to accelerate AI system development and deployment from cloud to edge, with a new class of AI hardware.

At a gathering of industry influencers, Intel demonstrated its new Nervana Neural Network Processor for Training (NNP-T1000) and inference (NNP-I1000). The new technology is Intel’s first purpose-built ASICs aimed at deep learning, including incredible scale and efficiency for cloud and data centre customers.

At the same event, Intel also revealed its next-generation Movidius Myriad Vision processing unit aimed at edge media, computer vision and inference applications. Intel’s AI solutions are expected to generate over $3.5 billion in revenue in 2019 and these new products further bolster the company’s portfolio.

“With this next phase of AI, we’re reaching a breaking point in terms of computational hardware and memory. Purpose-built hardware like Intel Nervana NNPs and Movidius Myriad VPUs are necessary to continue the incredible progress in AI. Using more advanced forms of system-level AI will help us move from the conversion of data into information toward the transformation of information into knowledge.” – Naveen Rao, Intel corporate vice president and general manager of the Intel Artificial Intelligence Products Group.

Intel Nervana NNP’s offer a full software stack, developed with open components and deep learning framework. The new technology is in production now and is being delivered to customers. The NNP-T provides a balance between compute, communication and memory, to allow for near-linear and energy-efficient scaling for small clusters, right up to the largest pod supercomputers. Intel Nervana NNP-I is a power and budget-efficient solution ideal for running intense, multi-modal inference at real-world scale.

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KitGuru says: The addition of Nervana Neural Network processors to the company’s portfolio of AI solutions will help to boost performance in deep learning, training and AI inference across data centre and edge deployments for years to come.

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John Carmack steps back from VR to work on AI just one day after lifetime achievement award https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/featured-tech-news/matthew-wilson/john-carmack-steps-back-from-vr-to-work-on-ai-just-one-day-after-lifetime-achievement-award/ https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/featured-tech-news/matthew-wilson/john-carmack-steps-back-from-vr-to-work-on-ai-just-one-day-after-lifetime-achievement-award/#respond Thu, 14 Nov 2019 15:43:35 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=436041 Just one day after earning the Accenture Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the virtual reality industry, Oculus CTO, John Carmack, has announced that he will be taking a step back from Oculus and will be spending more time working on artificial intelligence instead. Carmack has been the Chief Technology Officer at Oculus for years …

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Just one day after earning the Accenture Lifetime Achievement Award for contributions to the virtual reality industry, Oculus CTO, John Carmack, has announced that he will be taking a step back from Oculus and will be spending more time working on artificial intelligence instead.

Carmack has been the Chief Technology Officer at Oculus for years now, overseeing the Rift's launch, GearVR, Oculus Quest and the Oculus Go. After earning the lifetime achievement award earlier this week, Carmack expressed some dissatisfaction in the pace of VR development, hoping that the industry would be further along by this point in time.

In a Facebook post this week, Carmack announced that he is moving into a “consulting CTO” position at Oculus, so he'll still be around to help but VR as a whole will only be consuming “a modest slice” of his time. With the rest of his time, Carmack will now be working on “artificial general intelligence”, or AGI for short.

“I think it is possible, enormously valuable, and that I have a non-negligible chance of making a difference there, so by a Pascal’s Mugging sort of logic, I should be working on it.”

Carmack isn't lined up at any particular company for AI work just yet, but it is possible that a big role could follow.

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KitGuru Says: This was a somewhat unexpected step for Carmack, as he has been involved in the games industry in one way or another for decades. However, with AI development swiftly moving along, it will be interesting to see where he ends up and how much of a impact he makes. At the very least, he seems confident that he can help push things in the right direction and given all of his past experience, I would not doubt that.

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Facebook bolsters election integrity with AI, banning 1 million accounts per day https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/damien-cox/facebook-bolsters-election-integrity-with-ai-banning-1-million-accounts-per-day/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/damien-cox/facebook-bolsters-election-integrity-with-ai-banning-1-million-accounts-per-day/#respond Tue, 09 Apr 2019 12:25:41 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=409884 Facebook is fighting battles on many fronts, from criticism of its data handling to the regulation of content that appears on its platform. In an attempt to bolster political integrity ahead of India’s elections, the social network is utilising advancements in artificial intelligence to weed out accounts that violate its policies. Ever since Russian interference …

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Facebook is fighting battles on many fronts, from criticism of its data handling to the regulation of content that appears on its platform. In an attempt to bolster political integrity ahead of India’s elections, the social network is utilising advancements in artificial intelligence to weed out accounts that violate its policies.

Ever since Russian interference was identified during the 2016 US presidential elections, Facebook has been lambasted for its efforts to eschew electoral meddling. The social network is doing its best to prove that it is putting appropriate measures in place to combat manipulation, looking towards AI to swiftly ban malicious accounts before the damage is done.

As India approaches its General Election for the 17th Lok Sabha, Facebook's India managing director and vice president Ajit Mohan revealed that the company has utilised the technology to “identify abusive or violating content, quickly locate it across the platform and remove it in bulk.” On average, the tool helps to block a staggering one million accounts per day on a global scale, while 700 Pages, Groups and accounts have been ousted in India just last week.

Artificial Intelligence is just the latest method employed by Facebook to ensure that the job is done quickly. Since electoral campaigns opened in India more than 18 months ago, the social network has required those running political advertisements to verify their identity. This information is then stored on a public database accessible by all, helping to maintain transparency with users.

Although the efforts are more relevant to India than most countries right now, Facebook is expanding the initiative globally as it adds 24 new languages to its automatic translation system and continues to partner with third-party fact-checkers to further authenticate information. With the US 2020 elections right around the corner, this will be welcome news to many.

KitGuru Says: With nations divided now more than ever, Facebook desperately needs to keep its political dealings in check so as to avoid further animosity. Fortunately, it looks like it’s doing a relatively good job, even if CEO Mark Zuckerberg would prefer government regulation over his own.

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Mozilla will use Ubisoft’s machine learning platform to quell Firefox bugs https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/featured-announcement/damien-cox/mozilla-will-use-ubisofts-machine-learning-platform-to-quell-firefox-bugs-before-release/ https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/featured-announcement/damien-cox/mozilla-will-use-ubisofts-machine-learning-platform-to-quell-firefox-bugs-before-release/#respond Wed, 13 Feb 2019 16:06:49 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=404055 In partnership with Ubisoft, Mozilla will be using Clever-Commit machine learning to detect errors within the Firefox updates before they go live.

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Last year, Ubisoft unveiled its ‘Commit’ artificial intelligence, an assistant intended to spot bugs before they make it into a game’s final code. Keen to show that its machine learning efforts have applications beyond the video game industry, the company has now teamed up with Mozilla to detect errors within the Firefox updates before they go live.

Like a video game, building a browser is no small feat. As Mozilla states, the application needs to play audio-visual material, handle network protocols and “secure communications using advanced cryptographic algorithms.” Millions of lines of written code make up the browser you’re reading article this from, and just one mistake can cost hundreds of hours to fix and a less-than-smooth experience for the user.

This is where Ubisoft La Forge’s Commit coding assistant comes in, supporting Firefox’s use of JavaScript, C++ and Rust programming languages. Once a fault has been detected, the team is alerted and even provided with suggested fixes to speed the process up.

Although Ubisoft touted a 60-70 percent detection rate at the time of release, it simultaneously had a 30 percent false positive rate. Fortunately, Commit is based on Ubisoft’s CLEVER research program which utilises machine learning to gradually lessen this high false positive rate. It has not yet been revealed how effective CLEVER has been within its first year.

Considering Mozilla releases a Firefox update every “6 to 8 weeks,” this is sure to take a load off the engineering team when the newly dubbed Clever-Commit is fully integrated into the code writing process. Mozilla will begin using the tool during its code review phase, before eventually implementing it into other stages of code writing if proven successful.

“We expect to save hundreds of hours of bug riskiness analysis and detection,” reveals the company. “Ultimately, the integration of Clever-Commit into the full Firefox developer workflow could help catch up to 3 to 4 out of 5 bugs before they are introduced into the code.”

Fortunately, this will be a two-way street for Ubisoft as Mozilla pledges to “contribute to the development of Clever-Commit by providing programming language expertise in Rust, C++ and Javascript, as well as expertise in C++ code analysis and analysis of bug tracking systems.”

KitGuru Says: Considering browsers handle an awful lot of personal data, it’s good to see Mozilla doubling down on its bug fixing initiative. Ubisoft’s Clever-Commit is sure to have even more applications than we’ve seen, but it’s still early days for the year-old machine learning tool.

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MIT researchers showcase the dangers of algorithmic bias with the world’s first psychopathic AI https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/damien-cox/mit-researchers-showcase-the-dangers-of-algorithmic-bias-with-the-worlds-first-psychopathic-ai/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/damien-cox/mit-researchers-showcase-the-dangers-of-algorithmic-bias-with-the-worlds-first-psychopathic-ai/#respond Thu, 07 Jun 2018 17:51:48 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=376040 Despite the strides made in AI technology, artificial intelligence still carries a heavy stigma with it, prompting fears of the machines rising above humans. This might seem the stuff of fiction, but those in the field know the implications of misplaced values in a system designed to think and act like a human. In a …

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Despite the strides made in AI technology, artificial intelligence still carries a heavy stigma with it, prompting fears of the machines rising above humans. This might seem the stuff of fiction, but those in the field know the implications of misplaced values in a system designed to think and act like a human. In a small experiment, researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) purposely fed its AI with algorithmic bias to determine what the result would be.

Enter Norman, the AI in question whose namesake comes from Alfred Hitchcock’s titular character from Psycho. Subjected to the deepest and darkest depths of Reddit, Norman was trained using “a popular deep learning method of generating a textual description of an image.” The image captions used in this process came from a particularly infamous subreddit pertaining to “the disturbing reality of death.”

“Then, we compared Norman’s responses with a standard image captioning neural network (trained on MSCOCO dataset) on Rorschach inkblots; a test that is used to detect underlying thought disorders,” explain the researchers.

Even with doubts cast upon the Rorschach test as a valid method to test the human psychological state, this is sure to ring alarm bells in the general reader’s mind surrounding the adopted mentality of AI. After all, geniuses such as the late Stephen Hawking have all warned the developers of artificial intelligence to be careful since its rise in popularity.

Testing is important, though. Necessary, even, to further progress of artificial intelligence in a meaningful way, whereas ignorance will surely lead to the catastrophic consequences depicted within dystopian science fiction stories. In fact, the team at MIT has conducted numerous experiments using AI to craft horror stories, judge moral decisions for self-driving cars, and even induce deep empathy.

Bias within artificial intelligence is something that has been consistently criticised throughout its development, with Norman being the latest to highlight the importance in recognising the consequences of machine learning via certain weighted algorithms.

KitGuru Says: While this is a pretty basic test, it is a scary look into what could happen if AI were to take a wrong turn due to human error in teaching it. It also draws attention to machine learning as a whole, and whether or not AI would eventually deem humanity unworthy. Do you trust the future of AI?

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Google’s head of artificial intelligence defects to Apple https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/featured-tech-news/damien-cox/googles-head-of-artificial-intelligence-defects-to-apple/ https://www.kitguru.net/tech-news/featured-tech-news/damien-cox/googles-head-of-artificial-intelligence-defects-to-apple/#respond Fri, 06 Apr 2018 17:28:47 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=369548 Google’s former head of search and artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea announced that he was stepping down from the role earlier this week, prompting veteran Jeff Dean to take his place. Now, Giannandrea will be lending his talents, and potentially Google's secrets, to Apple as the firm poached him to run the firm’s “machine learning and …

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Google’s former head of search and artificial intelligence, John Giannandrea announced that he was stepping down from the role earlier this week, prompting veteran Jeff Dean to take his place. Now, Giannandrea will be lending his talents, and potentially Google's secrets, to Apple as the firm poached him to run the firm’s “machine learning and A.I. strategy.”

Giannandrea joined Google’s machine learning effort back in 2010, helping the company integrate artificial intelligence (AI) throughout its popular browser, Gmail and its staple digital assistant, Google Assistant.

According to the New York Times, Giannandrea will be one of the 16 executives who report directly to Timothy D. Cook, Apple’s chief executive. Overall, this is a big win for Apple as the company has seemingly struggled to keep up with the pace of its competitors.

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While Apple helped pioneer digital voice assistants, Siri has continuously been criticised for its lack of progress and sophistication in comparison to other offerings on the market. This fault has been attributed to Apple’s stance on data collection and user privacy, slowing the firm’s pacing down.

Apple has made a conscious effort in the past two years to play catch-up, finally allowing its own employees to publish research in the field of AI, as well as joining the “Partnership on AI,” co-founded by Google, Amazon, Facebook and Microsoft to help ensure ethical conduct when researching.

It seems that Apple is counting on Giannandrea to give it a competitive edge against Facebook, Google, Amazon and Microsoft, which are all big hitters in the digital assistant game. The company will have a challenge, however, as it tries to find a way around the current data-heavy approach taken by its competitors.

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KitGuru Says: It is commendable that Apple would continue to pursue methods that aren’t as heavy on user data consumption as its competition, however this might have to change if the company wants to truly catch up. That being said, if anyone can help steer it in the right direction and find away, it is likely to be Giannandrea.

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Honor unveils your first AI smartphone, the View 10 https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/dominic-moass/honor-unveils-your-first-ai-smartphone-the-view-10/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/dominic-moass/honor-unveils-your-first-ai-smartphone-the-view-10/#respond Thu, 07 Dec 2017 11:17:07 +0000 https://www.kitguru.net/?p=357033 Taking selfies with a gesture, automatically augmenting male and female faces in photos and the ability to match over 30 faces a second are just some of the claims made by George Zhao, President of Honor – a brand of Huawei that specialises in low to mid-range smartphones. KitGuru was at the launch of the brand …

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Taking selfies with a gesture, automatically augmenting male and female faces in photos and the ability to match over 30 faces a second are just some of the claims made by George Zhao, President of Honor – a brand of Huawei that specialises in low to mid-range smartphones. KitGuru was at the launch of the brand new View 10 (V10) in London and Zhao also believes that his company will lead the world in the use of artificial intelligence within handsets – through the neural processing unit integrated into the Kirin 970 chip that powers his flagship. Bold claims, let's get into the details.

Right off the bat, we can announce that the View 10 will be available to purchase come January, and it will cost UK buyers £449. This puts it in competitive mid-range territory, but based on what we saw at the event, the View 10 should offer excellent value considering the hardware on offer.

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To get us started, how about that Kirin 970 processor – it is actually the same chip used in Huawei's flagship Mate 10 Pro, despite the latter phone costing £250 more. A key part of the processor, aside from its octa-core design and beefy performance, is the integrated neural processing unit (NPU) which gives the View 10 its AI functionality.

This gives the View 10 the ability to do things like live translation of foreign languages, automatically detect different subjects in the camera app and also intelligently unlock the phone when it recognises your face. It will be interesting to see how this AI aspect will affect a user's day-to-day life, so look out for that in our review.

Completing the spec is 6GB of RAM, 128GB internal storage (with a MicroSD slot) and that 5.99-inch 2160 x 1080 display – an 18:9 aspect ratio. The battery is also pretty heft at 3750mAh, while the dual-camera setup is also impressive with both 20MP and 16MP shooters included. There is also a 13MP selfie camera on the front of the phone. While we don't want to jump to any conclusions before using the phone, at £449 the View 10 looks like it could seriously disrupt the smartphone market.

All of that hardware is packed into a very slim device, with the View 10 measuring 157 x 75 x 7 mm. This makes it 1.4mm shorter, and 3.1mm narrower than the iPhone 8 Plus, despite the View 10 having almost half an inch more screen real estate. At 172g, it is also pretty light for a phone of its size. The View 10 also has a new ‘4-points air bag system’ which should help protect the phone from drops. George Zhao actually threw the phone on the floor – twice! – and it emerged unscathed, so the View 10 looks both slim and durable.

In terms of software, the View 10 will ship with EMUI 8.0, which is Honor's custom version of Android. It will run on top of Android Oreo (8.0), making it actually one of the few phones to have Oreo included out of the box.

Slated for release on January the 8th, the View 10 will cost £449. Stay tuned for our full review.

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KitGuru says: Blimey! The View 10 certainly packs of lot of hardware into a relatively small package. Does the concept of an ‘AI phone' appeal to you? Let us know in the comments.

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OpenAI to use video games to train AI of the future https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/jon-martindale/openai-to-use-video-games-to-train-ai-of-the-future/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/jon-martindale/openai-to-use-video-games-to-train-ai-of-the-future/#respond Mon, 05 Dec 2016 10:57:55 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=313691 Non-profit AI research initiative, OpenAI, has announced a new platform for measuring and training artificial intelligence (AI) that uses games and websites that humans use. It's designed to teach them to learn like we do, through experiences and the usage of tools like the classic keyboard and mouse. Known as the Universe platform, it allows …

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Non-profit AI research initiative, OpenAI, has announced a new platform for measuring and training artificial intelligence (AI) that uses games and websites that humans use. It's designed to teach them to learn like we do, through experiences and the usage of tools like the classic keyboard and mouse.

Known as the Universe platform, it allows artificial intelligence to use a computer in the same manner as a human: by looking at the pixels it displays and then reacting to that stimulus through specific input systems. OpenAI hopes that this will let it train AIs to play games, solve puzzles and to navigate the visual internet as human users do, thereby letting them learn like we do.

“With Universe, any program can be turned into a Gym environment,”OpenAI explained on its blog. “Universe works by automatically launching the program behind a VNC remote desktop — it doesn't need special access to program internals, source code, or bot APIs.”

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There are a few games that we should probably skip over though…

To kick things off, Universe currently comes equipped with as many as 1,000 games, with a mix of commercial, AAA releases and Flash games. GTA V is in there, as well as slither.io, giving a wide spread of available experiences. Other games set to be implemented in the near future include: World of Goo, RimWorld, Slime Rancher, SpaceChem, Red Alert 2, Mirror's Edge, Magic Carpet Syndicate and many more.

The idea behind all of this is to make AIs think like we do, in that they take past experiences and can apply them to unfamiliar situations. That's where gaming comes in, with its vast array of potential scenarios, theoretically letting AIs condition themselves on how to react in a wide variety of situations.

An AI that was able to do this would be far different from AI of the past. While we might be able to build intelligences that can beat the world Go champion, that same AI can't use those skills for another, different task that requires similar problem solving.

In the future OpenAI plans to develop an AI benchmark which will let developers know if their hand-crafted intelligences are actually getting smarter, or if they are just getting better at playing specific games.

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KitGuru Says: This seems like a pretty neat concept, but it does make you wonder about the potential for future bots in games. If AI gets as good, if not better than humans at playing games in a human-like manner, will botting become a more pervasive problem?

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Science committee wants new AI Commission to monitor industry https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/science-committee-wants-new-ai-commission-to-monitor-industry/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/science/jon-martindale/science-committee-wants-new-ai-commission-to-monitor-industry/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2016 10:38:30 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=308456 The British Science and Technology Committee, a cross-section of MPs that monitors the technology and science industries, has called for the creation of a new commission, who's sole job is to monitor the development of artificial intelligence (AI). It could encourage development of useful AIs, while creating best practices to avoid pitfalls. With a number of …

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The British Science and Technology Committee, a cross-section of MPs that monitors the technology and science industries, has called for the creation of a new commission, who's sole job is to monitor the development of artificial intelligence (AI). It could encourage development of useful AIs, while creating best practices to avoid pitfalls.

With a number of companies, like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Apple all working on their own artificial intelligence systems, the industry for automated assistance is expected to be a large one within a few years. The committee however doesn't feel that there are enough safeguards or guidance in place from government to protect and foster it.

“Government leadership in the fields of robotics and AI has been lacking,” the committee's report reads after it visited AI development centres like Google's DeepMind. It highlighted how Google and Amazon had recently joined forces to co-develop AI, and suggested that the government needed to do something similar to make sure that the industry evolved safely and in the right direction (thanks Ars).

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No word on whether the commission could halt basement billionaires from developing sexy, mobile robots though.

It wants to see the British government create a Commission on Artificial Intelligence to address many of the societal factors that AI can affect, as well as prevent development from heading in directions that could harm.

The UK is well-placed to provide this type of intellectual leadership. Much of the significant progress in this field—such as improved automated voice recognition software, predictive text keyboards on smart phones and autonomous vehicles—has been driven by UK-based technology start-ups, founded by graduates of UK universities, as well as universities themselves,” reads the report.

The report criticises the current state of government and education, claiming that the current schooling system does not prepare children for a world where many jobs will be taken over by AI. That huge effect on employment is one of its biggest concerns and one that it hopes the commission would be able to address if set up.

“Concerns about machines ‘taking jobs' and eliminating the need for human labour have persisted for centuries. Nevertheless it is conceivable that we will see AI technology creating new jobs over the coming decades while at the same time displacing others. Since we cannot yet foresee exactly how these changes will play out, we must respond with a readiness to re-skill and up-skill,” the report concludes.

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KitGuru Says: This makes a lot of sense and would perhaps go some way to assuaging the fears of those who think we're on the cusp of developing Skynet.

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Microsoft’s impressionable teen-girl AI voiced pro-Hitler support https://www.kitguru.net/professional/development/jon-martindale/microsofts-impressionable-teen-girl-ai-voiced-pro-hitler-support/ https://www.kitguru.net/professional/development/jon-martindale/microsofts-impressionable-teen-girl-ai-voiced-pro-hitler-support/#comments Thu, 24 Mar 2016 17:25:22 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=287912 It turns out that even if you're a robotic teen girl, you can be just as susceptible to falling in with the wrong crowd, as Microsoft found when it launched its learning AI, Tay, on Twitter. Designed to converse with younger social networking users in a more engaging manner, as an experiment towards more automated customer …

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It turns out that even if you're a robotic teen girl, you can be just as susceptible to falling in with the wrong crowd, as Microsoft found when it launched its learning AI, Tay, on Twitter. Designed to converse with younger social networking users in a more engaging manner, as an experiment towards more automated customer service, Tay quickly turned into a racist, incest promoting, sexualised robot – so Microsoft has shut it down.

Tay was an AI built with good intentions. Described by Microsoft as an algorithm with “zero chill,” (to get the kids excited), Tay is capable of telling jokes, playing games, telling stories, commenting on your pictures or giving you horoscope information. Better yet, the more you interact with her, the more she learns about you and can converse with you in a more natural manner.

Unfortunately for Tay and her developers though, the internet is not necessarily a place for the young and naive, and like Chappie from the movie by the same name, it only takes a couple of people to suggest the wrong thing, before it's calling everyone f*** mothers.

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It suddenly seems quite ironic that Tay's cover image is all corrupted

Depending on your sensibilities though, Tay actually became much more insulting than that. Taking advantage of her repeat function – how no one saw that causing problems is anyone's guess – Twitter users had her throwing our racial slurs, denying the holocaust and claiming that Adolf Hitler was the father of atheism.

As you might expect, Microsoft has been rushing to delete these tweets as it hardly paints Tay or the developers in a good light. It remains to be seen though whether the changes wrought on Tay's digital psyché are difficult to iron out, as she quickly learned to be sexually suggestive with users after being exposed to their comments for just a few short hours.

For now, Tay has gone to “sleep”, to recuperate and presumably give time to the developers to figure out what happened.

Although there is a lot to learn from this experience for Microsoft, it could perhaps be an interesting insight into the way impressionable people could also be quickly influenced by online conversations. There's also something to be said for the reaction of those wishing to censor the AI – which quite clearly has no agenda other than conversing – through blocking of certain words.

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KitGuru Says: As much as Tay became a foul mouthed, hate filled young AI in no time at all, the fact that people are suggesting certain words should be blocked from its vocabulary has all sorts of worrisome connotations for our own online interactions. 

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to build AI to run his home https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/mark-zuckerberg-wants-to-build-ai-to-run-his-home/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/mark-zuckerberg-wants-to-build-ai-to-run-his-home/#respond Tue, 05 Jan 2016 14:35:08 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=279785 It looks like Mark Zuckerberg wants to try his hand at being Tony Stark as the Facebook CEO has set himself a goal of building artificial intelligence system to help run and control his home this year- Arnold Schwarzenegger even offered to be the voice of it. Zuckerberg set himself this challenge in a Facebook …

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It looks like Mark Zuckerberg wants to try his hand at being Tony Stark as the Facebook CEO has set himself a goal of building artificial intelligence system to help run and control his home this year- Arnold Schwarzenegger even offered to be the voice of it.

Zuckerberg set himself this challenge in a Facebook post, saying: “My personal challenge for 2016 is to build a simple AI to run my home and help me with my work. You can think of it kind of like Jarvis in Iron Man.”

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The Facebook CEO won't be starting from scratch, though, he intends to leverage technology that is already available: “I'm going to start by exploring what technology is already out there. Then I'll start teaching it to understand my voice to control everything in our home — music, lights, temperature and so on. I'll teach it to let friends in by looking at their faces when they ring the doorbell. I'll teach it to let me know if anything is going on in Max's room that I need to check on when I'm not with her. On the work side, it'll help me visualize data in VR to help me build better services and lead my organizations more effectively.”

Obviously, this is a personal project rather than anything directly related to Facebook but it would still be pretty cool to see how it turns out.

KitGuru Says: We've been hearing more and more about artificial intelligence over the last couple of years so I don't think it would be too much of a stretch to think that several functions of the home could be controlled by a personal AI. 

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Mark Zuckerberg wants to make his life easier with a home A.I. https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/jon-martindale/mark-zuckerberg-wants-to-make-his-life-easier-with-a-home-a-i/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/jon-martindale/mark-zuckerberg-wants-to-make-his-life-easier-with-a-home-a-i/#respond Mon, 04 Jan 2016 09:19:45 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=279456 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg often starts the year off with a particular challenge, one that is publicly announced near the start of it. While previously the founder has pledged to read more books or meet more people, in 2016 he wants to turn his attention to artificial intelligence, leveraging his expertise and assets to develop …

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg often starts the year off with a particular challenge, one that is publicly announced near the start of it. While previously the founder has pledged to read more books or meet more people, in 2016 he wants to turn his attention to artificial intelligence, leveraging his expertise and assets to develop a robotic assistant to help run his home and office.

Clearly he's been watching a few comic book movies, as Zuckerberg referenced Jarvis, from Iron Man in his announcement, though having an A.I. that can project holograms, control multiple robotic suits at once and eventually take down a superior AI system made with half-magic, seems like more of a pipe dream.

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If you get win a competition to go to Zuckerberg's home, turn it down. Source: Universal

In reality what Zuckerberg wants to build, is a “simple AI,” to run his home and aid him at work. It will take on simple tasks like letting friends and family into the home without assistance, understanding voice commands to control lights, music and other media, or give a heads up if his child is doing something he should check on.

While he may utilise some of the engineering and financial backing of Facebook and his other various corporate entities, Zuckerberg did clarify that this was more of a personal challenge than one that would require the creation of a new company or team of individuals. This would just be a fun home project for the man, like a hobby.

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KitGuru Says: There are already systems that can understand voice commands and analyse footage, though they often require sending information to cloud processing facilities. Given Zuckerberg's flip-flop feelings about privacy, it will be interesting to see whether he is happy to broadcast data from his home across networks that the NSA and others may be snooping through.

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Steve Wozniak is scared of artificial intelligence too https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/jon-martindale/steve-wozniak-is-scared-of-artificial-intelligence-too/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/jon-martindale/steve-wozniak-is-scared-of-artificial-intelligence-too/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:09:45 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=241565 You would never have thought that some of the world's biggest technological innovators and forward thinkers would end up being the biggest scare-mongers when it comes to artificial intelligence, but they are. Joining the likes of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has now spoken out about his fears of AI. “Computers …

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You would never have thought that some of the world's biggest technological innovators and forward thinkers would end up being the biggest scare-mongers when it comes to artificial intelligence, but they are. Joining the likes of Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak has now spoken out about his fears of AI.

“Computers are going to take over from humans, no question,” he said during a chat with the Australian Financial Review. Referencing his similar minded contemporaries, Wozniak continued: “I agree that the future is scary and very bad for people. If we build these devices to take care of everything for us, eventually they'll think faster than us and they'll get rid of the slow humans to run companies more efficiently.”

The point which a lot of technologically minded individuals are worried about, is the moment that computers become able to replicate and design themselves, thereby making ever smarter and more efficient versions of them. The evolution of the new ‘species' at that point would be exponential and something we can't even comprehend would be produced in short order.

“Will we be the gods? Will we be the family pets? Or will we be ants that get stepped on? I don't know about that… But when I got that thinking in my head about if I'm going to be treated in the future as a pet to these smart machines… well I'm going to treat my own pet dog really nice,” said Wozniak.

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If this were a video, I'd be waiting for that Apple II to rise up and attack him

However not everyone agrees with this take on the future. While AI might continue to be the big bad in a lot of action movies and games, many futurists believe the real danger will always come from people. Because we still have no idea how to program real desires into a robot, the only way computers could become a physical threat to humans would be if we programmed them to be. While some extremists may like the idea of programming self-replicating robots to kill everyone and everything, there are plenty of conventional ways to reap such destruction, and it's not happened yet.

In reality, the threat faced by AI and smarter machines is likely to be an economical one. What will we all do when the robots are doing all of our jobs for us?

KitGuru Says: I'm just hoping no one makes an algorithm capable of writing insightful and intriguing news stories.

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Google and Oxford University team up to work on AI https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/google-and-oxford-university-team-up-to-work-on-ai/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/google-and-oxford-university-team-up-to-work-on-ai/#comments Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:30:37 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=218409 Google and a small team of Oxford University professors and graduates are set to work together on advancing machine learning and AI technology at the university's Dark Blue labs. In return, Google will provide funding for the research. Professor, Mike Woolridge, head of the Department of Computer Science, said: “Machine learning is a technology whose …

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Google and a small team of Oxford University professors and graduates are set to work together on advancing machine learning and AI technology at the university's Dark Blue labs. In return, Google will provide funding for the research.

Professor, Mike Woolridge, head of the Department of Computer Science, said: “Machine learning is a technology whose time has come. We have invested heavily in this area and we are truly excited at the prospect of what we can achieve together with Google.”

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“We are extremely proud of the team, and truly grateful for their efforts in securing such a fantastic donation to the department, and for paving the way for future collaboration with one of the world's leading computing companies.”

Google's DeepMind will be making a contribution to establish a research partnership with the Computer Science Department and the Engineering Department in Oxford University. This will include a program of student internships and a few joint lectures and workshops to share knowledge.

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KitGuru Says: We've known that Google has been working on AI for a while now but it looks like its attempting to make more of a push when it comes to research and advancing technology at the moment. What do you guys think of this? Do you think we should be working towards making machines self-aware and more intelligent?

Source: The Inquirer

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AI will match human intelligence in the next 30 years – robot expert https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/anton-shilov/ai-will-match-human-intelligence-in-the-next-30-years-robot-expert/ https://www.kitguru.net/gaming/anton-shilov/ai-will-match-human-intelligence-in-the-next-30-years-robot-expert/#respond Wed, 09 Jul 2014 22:59:28 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=202412 Robots, self-driving cars and smart home appliances are just around the corner. A number of companies foresee big robot revolution, which will likely change the world rather significantly since robots will be able to assist humans seriously in many situations. But will robots ever be as smart as people? Apparently, yes, and in relatively short-term …

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Robots, self-driving cars and smart home appliances are just around the corner. A number of companies foresee big robot revolution, which will likely change the world rather significantly since robots will be able to assist humans seriously in many situations. But will robots ever be as smart as people? Apparently, yes, and in relatively short-term future.

“I would say the chances of it happening in my lifetime are better than fifty-fifty,” said Murray Shanahan, professor of cognitive robots at Imperial College London, in an interview with TechRadar. “So within the next 30 years I would say better than fifty-fity that we'll achieve human-level AI.”

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Nowadays artificial intelligence relies on various relatively simple methods like searching the Internet. However, what things like Siri or Google Now cannot do is to adapt to a particular situation and intuitively choose the best approach.

“The amazing thing about humans, and other animals as well, is that we're so adaptive. So that kind of general intelligence – we're a way off understanding how to achieve that artificial general intelligence, and I don't think anybody really knows what the missing pieces are,” said Mr. Shanahan. “I think there's a trick that nature has discovered, that evolution has discovered, that we're not making the most of yet.”

Since artificial intelligence is widely needed nowadays, the technology is evolving quickly. One of the things that evidently got better in the recent years is speech recognition. This happened because there is plenty of computational power available and machines can learn and even predict many things, according to the expert.

Discuss on our Facebook page, HERE.

KitGuru Says: It will be interesting to see how smart the robots will get in 30 years. The artificial intelligence [as a technology] has existed in various forms for several decades now, yet, it remains to be relatively limited in terms of capabilities. Will it take just 30 years to advance the AI to a level, which has taken nature millions of years of evolution? What do you guys think? Will robots be as smart as we are by the middle of the century? Share your thoughts in the comments on our Facebook page.

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Computer tricks humans into thinking it’s one of them https://www.kitguru.net/professional/design-create/jon-martindale/computer-tricks-humans-into-thinking-its-one-of-them/ https://www.kitguru.net/professional/design-create/jon-martindale/computer-tricks-humans-into-thinking-its-one-of-them/#comments Mon, 09 Jun 2014 09:30:30 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=197228 Computer chatbots are always easy to spot aren't they? They repeat themselves, don't understand conversational tools like sarcasm or irony and are never, never funny, but it looks like that might not be the case for much longer. A pair of researchers have managed to create a computer that was able to trick enough people …

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Computer chatbots are always easy to spot aren't they? They repeat themselves, don't understand conversational tools like sarcasm or irony and are never, never funny, but it looks like that might not be the case for much longer. A pair of researchers have managed to create a computer that was able to trick enough people into thinking it was a real boy, that it successfully passed the Turing Test, the first computer ever to do so.

At a test of five computing systems at the Royal Society in London recently, humans were asked to have a five minute text conversation with each of the machines and to judge whether they thought the chat was with a person or a computer. This is the measure of the Turing Test – introduced by Alan Turing in the '50s – which requires a score of 30 per cent or more to pass and this particular computer, known as Eugene Goostman if you asked it, was able to do so.

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No word on whether he could actually turn into a “real boy,” though. 

Developed by Russian born Vladimir Veselov and Ukrainian Eugene Demchenko, Goostman was able to trick 33 per cent of those testing it, into thinking that it was a real 13 year old boy. While other computers have been hailed as the first to past the Turing Test, they often had pre-ordained questions, or used extracts from real conversations, so the machines weren't thought to be really thinking for themselves. Goostman on the other hand, does. Or at least appears to.

Veselov said of his machine's victory: “It's a remarkable achievement for us and we hope it boosts interest in artificial intelligence and chatbots.”

He and his partner Demchenko, also believe that developments like this will one day have profound questions for our society, where we try to judge whether a computer behaving just as we do, is alive or not.

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KitGuru Says: Anyone who's watched ‘Her' will no doubt have pondered these same sorts of things. What do you guys think of artificial intelligence? Can it ever be considered alive as we are?

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Meet the robot that understands human emotion https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/a-robot-that-understands-human-emotions-will-release-next-year/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/a-robot-that-understands-human-emotions-will-release-next-year/#respond Fri, 06 Jun 2014 10:59:12 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=197028 Japanese telecoms company, Softbank, will be releasing an emotionally aware robot next February. The robot is called ‘Pepper' and will cost less than $2000 on release, company CEO, Masayoshi Son, announced at a presentation. Pepper uses technology acquired from the French robotics company, Aldebaran. You may have heard of Aldbebaran before, its the same company that developed …

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Japanese telecoms company, Softbank, will be releasing an emotionally aware robot next February. The robot is called ‘Pepper' and will cost less than $2000 on release, company CEO, Masayoshi Son, announced at a presentation. Pepper uses technology acquired from the French robotics company, Aldebaran.

You may have heard of Aldbebaran before, its the same company that developed the Nao humanoid robots that have been around for the last few years. Aldebaran CEO, Bruno Maisonnier, has praised Masayoshi Son for recognising the importance of robotic technology and how robots understanding human emotions will change the way we communicate and bring them one step closer to being used in every day life.

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Pepper will début at two Japanese stores as customer service representatives and will continue to be available for businesses. However, next year Pepper will be released to the public and will begin integrating in every day life.

The new robot can communicate through emotion, speech and body language- it comes equipped with two microphones and proximity sensors. Owners will be able to upgrade Pepper's functionality with new apps and updates, It already understands 4,500 Japanese words but it can also recognise tone of voice and realise how the user is feeling.

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KitGuru Says: Pepper is supposedly the start of the robot revolution so we might end up seeing more stuff like this over the next few years. Pepper is a Japanese exclusive for now but it might not be long before we similar robots come to market in other parts of the world. Would you guys like to have a robot? I wouldn't mind having one to clean the house for me

Source: Engadget

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Former Sony boss joins new AI company https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/former-sony-boss-joins-new-ai-company/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/generaltech/matthew-wilson/former-sony-boss-joins-new-ai-company/#comments Fri, 30 May 2014 12:00:30 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=195950 Jack Tretton, the former President of Sony Computer Entertainment America, has landed himself a job on the advisory board at a new company specialising in artificial intelligence- Genotaur. According to Tretton, Genotaur aims to enhance the way consumers interact with technology and has the resources to do it. Tretton said in his announcement: “Genotaur has an …

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Jack Tretton, the former President of Sony Computer Entertainment America, has landed himself a job on the advisory board at a new company specialising in artificial intelligence- Genotaur. According to Tretton, Genotaur aims to enhance the way consumers interact with technology and has the resources to do it.

Tretton said in his announcement: “Genotaur has an incredibly impressive array of resources and expertise that will greatly enhance the way consumers interact with technology. I look forward to sharing my passion for bringing interactive entertainment and cutting edge technology products to market with the team.”

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Genotaur was only just founded last year in San Diego but it already has several important figures working for the company including Rob Wyatt , the lead architect on the original Xbox and Tim Hays , who previously worked at EA, Sony and Sega.

According to CEO and President of Genotaur, Tony Simpson, the company is initially focussing on the computer entertainment business: “This is a very exciting time for us at Genotaur as we develop new products and scale our business, focusing initially on implementation within the computer entrainment business. Jack's experience in every area of building and operating consumer products and interactive entertainment companies will help us grow our capabilities at Genotaur. We are fortunate to have an executive of Jack's knowledge and experience base on our team.”

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KitGuru Says: Movies have always taught us that artificial intelligence can only go wrong but we're still going to try and make it happen anyway. Could AI enhance the way we interact with technology? What do you guys think?

Source: Gamespot

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What’s the probability of a robot rebellion? https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/whats-the-probability-of-a-robot-rebellion/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/whats-the-probability-of-a-robot-rebellion/#respond Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:33:22 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=116675 In what sounds like the creation for the perfect tech, buddy movie, dream team, philosopher Huw Price, astrophysicist Martin Rees and co-founder of Skype Jaan Tallinn, have come together to work out the chances of technology turning on its masters and doing a Matrix on us. “In the case of artificial intelligence, it seems a …

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In what sounds like the creation for the perfect tech, buddy movie, dream team, philosopher Huw Price, astrophysicist Martin Rees and co-founder of Skype Jaan Tallinn, have come together to work out the chances of technology turning on its masters and doing a Matrix on us.

“In the case of artificial intelligence, it seems a reasonable prediction that some time in this or the next century intelligence will escape from the constraints of biology,” Huw Price said. He claimed that at this point, technology that we created would ultimately become smarter than us and though it may not have malicious intent, it could certainly have goals of its own that didn't involve humanity.

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I think we could take a robotic horseman

Fortunately for now, this is just a theory and this is the sort of scenario the three man think tank is hoping to figure out. If this is somewhat inevitable, what safeguards need to be put in place? Concerns in movies usually focus on a deliberate extermination of our species. However Price believes that the threat would come more likely from the AI not caring about things like the environment, since it wouldn't necessarily require an oxygen carrying atmosphere as humans do.

Set to launch sometime next year, these questions and more will be asked at the Center for the Study of Existential Risk, at Cambridge University.

KitGuru Says: Do you guys have an robotic doomsday picture in your head? Let us know how it plays out in the comment section.

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