Robots that look after grandma in The Economist 16 February 2019
Demand for multi-purpose robots is rising, unlike supply. Two recent research studies have...
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Category: AI
Algorithms are just too easy a bogeyman for volatile markets by David Siegel in FT 22 January 2019
Algorithmic thinking has its place. Whilst the article was written for a financial audience, it...
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The Future of AI Will Be About Less Data, Not More by J Wilson, P Daugherty & C Davenport in Harvard Business Review 14 January 2019
Introducing the next big chapter in AI development. It is easy to be carried away with today’s...
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Quora answer to Is reinforcement learning a dead end? by Sridhar Mahadevan
Trenchant critique of reinforcement learning. Mahadevan, a fellow of the AAAI, sets out his...
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Uber has cracked two classic ’80s video games by Will Knight in MIT Technology Review 26 November 2018
New algorithm makes up for intermittent reinforcement. In most games, a machine learning algorithm...
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Lecture on Creativity and AI by Demis Hassabis to The Royal Academy of Arts 17 September 2018
AI is still only at the quite creative stage of development. Hassabis breaks creativity down into...
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Westworld (s1) and Humans (s3)
Fancy coding generates consciousness. It is interesting watching Westworld and Humans...
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Will robots kill us by Stephen Hawking in Sunday Times 14 October 2018
The existential risk lies in AI drivers and goals. Hawking rightly points out the distinct...
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FT Big Read Artificial Intelligence by Richard Waters in Financial Times 10 October 2018
Mid-term report on AI paints a cooperative picture. The story here is that AI will work most...
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Thoughts laid bare by Timothy Revell in NewScientist 29 September 2018
Could AI help us discover where consciousness lies in the brain? Some of the world’s big...
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Machine Learning Confronts the Elephant in the Room by Kevin Hartnett in Quanta Magazine 20 September 2018
Machine learning has yet to grow up. Machine learning is like a primary school child. It has...
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I want to make a chemical brain by Roman Hooper in NewScientist 15 September 2018
Consciousness in silico will not work. So says the chemist, Lee Cronin. He believes that the...
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Head full of brains, shoes full of feet in The Economist 1 September 2018
As AI becomes more human, it grows stronger. Supervised machine learning has made great strides in...
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Robot laws by Douglas Heaven in NewScientist 4 August 2018
Asimov’s three laws of robotics get overhauled. Asimov was clearly on the right track when he...
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Start-ups gain edge in new era of computing by Richard Waters in Financial Times 070618
It’s not all going the way of the cloud. The move towards the cloud has centralised more and more...
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From A&E to AI in The Economist 9 June 2018
AI continues to transform medical diagnostics. This is a useful article updating the reader on the...
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Machine theory of mind by NC Rabinowitz et al at DeepMind 21 February 2018
How a machine might infer others’ behaviour by observation. There are some interesting...
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Building Machines that Learn and Think for Themselves by M Botvinick et al in Behavioural and Brain Sciences 2017
Homing in on the conceptual design of a thinking machine. There is growing agreement all round on...
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Imagination-augmented agents for deep reinforcement learning by T Weber, S Racaniere, DP Reichert et al 19 July 2017
Planning strategies in the real world takes imagination. A team at DeepMind has developed an...
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Equilibrium Propagation: Bridging the Gap between Energy-Based Models and Backpropagation by B Scellier and Y Bengio in Front. Comput. Neurosci. 4 May 2017
Could equilibrium propagation be nature’s way of doing backpropagation? This paper is absolutely...
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