A-Eye Can See Millions of Colors for Better Automation

Researchers at Northeastern have built a device that can recognize “millions of colors” using new artificial intelligence techniques. “In the world of automation, shapes and colors are the most commonly used items by which a machine can recognize objects,” Kar says. The breakthrough is twofold. Researchers were able to engineer two-dimensional material whose special quantum …

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Tech Report Says to Get an Alibaba or EBay Business Before Your Old Jobs Are Destroyed

An Alibaba backed open research think tank (the Luohan Academy) has published a 22-page report which says that AI, mobile internet, e-commerce are not destroying more jobs than they create. Nextbigfuture summarizes the report as there are lots of jobs and businesses being created by the Alibaba, Ebay, Googles and Ubers of the world. People …

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Foresight discussion on Artificial General Intelligence and Corporations

The Foresight Institute is currently having its mini-conference on Artificial General Intelligence and Corporations. Peter Scheyer has a paper written with a grant given by Paul Christiano on the legal aspects of AGI as corporations. This is the central aspect which is referred by most of the other talks. Corporations as Artificial General Intelligences has …

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Xilinx adaptive and intelligent computing will give 20 times better performance for deep learning

Xilinx the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today announced a new breakthrough product category called adaptive compute acceleration platform (ACAP) that goes far beyond the capabilities of an FPGA. An ACAP is a highly integrated multi-core heterogeneous compute platform that can be changed at the hardware level to adapt to the needs of a …

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BCG predicts 23% of finance jobs could be lost to AI by 2027

A study by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) found that 23 percent of the total 9.93 million jobs in China’s banking, insurance and securities sectors will be affected by AI by 2027, with entry-level staff engaged in repetitious daily operations bearing the brunt of any cuts. “Many jobs, particularly those involving mechanical, repetitious operations, will gradually …

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Bain forecasts 10-15 year automation driven economic boom but many impacts from wages losses and job losses

Bain Consulting forecasts that the coming phase of automation could eventually eliminate up to 50% of all current jobs. The job activity analysis only suggests the potential of technology to replace humans with hardware and software. It does not take into account the actual market conditions that would lead businesses to automate all work that …

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China testing unmanned AI on old battle tanks

China is testing unmanned tanks that use artificial intelligence-based systems. An oldType-59 tank was fitted with new remote control technology and seemingly being driven by a soldier sitting at a nearby control deck. The Chinese military is trying network the tanks to aircraft and satellites to work in a quicker and more lethal way than …

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Google AutoML makes adding AI as simple as drag and drop

The goal of Google Cloud was to lower the barrier of entry and make AI available to the largest possible community of developers, researchers and businesses. Google is introducing Cloud AutoML to make AI accessible to every business. Cloud AutoML helps businesses with limited ML expertise start building their own high-quality custom models by using …

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Chessmasters praise AlphaZero AI games and says it has an aggressive playing style

Chess players have analyzed the games that AlphaZero played against the Stockfish program and found many innovative moves and tactics. Chessbase has an analysis that discusses the quality of its games and its playing style. AlphaZero uses Monte Carlo tree search but has a combined policy and value network for evaluating moves. Previously AlphaGo had …

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