A New AI Can Write Music as Well as a Human Composer
https://futurism.com/a-new-ai-can-write-music-as-well-as-a-human-composer
AI experiments with google
https://deepmind.com/
"I would actually be very pessimistic about the world if something like AI wasn't coming down the road," he said.
"The reason I say that is that if you look at the challenges that confront society: climate change, sustainability, mass inequality — which is getting worse — diseases, and healthcare, we're not making progress anywhere near fast enough in any of these areas.
"Either we need an exponential improvement in human behavior — less selfishness, less short-termism, more collaboration, more generosity — or we need an exponential improvement in technology.
"If you look at current geopolitics, I don't think we're going to be getting an exponential improvement in human behavior any time soon.
"That's why we need a quantum leap in technology like AI."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/09/googles-ai-program-deepmind-learns-human-navigation-skills The scientists hoped that with training the AI program might develop its own grid cell-like activity, and that is precisely what they found. A quarter of the artificial neurons in one layer of the deep neural network had begun firing like biological grid cells. In other words, the AI hit on the same strategy to map out the world as the human brain did long ago. “We were surprised how well it worked,” said Caswell. “The degree of similarity is absolutely striking.”
Grid cells are fundamental for navigation in humans and other mammals. They behave as if an invisible mesh of hexagons has been laid over the land, firing rapidly when an animal crosses from one hexagon to the next. Inreality, some hexagons are big, others are small, and many overlap. Neuroscientists suspect that this imaginary mesh helps all mammals work out where they are and calculate the shortest path to their goal.
Deep Learning - With massive amounts of computational power, machines can now recognize objects and translate speech in real time. Artificial intelligence is finally getting smart.
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Science fiction has long anticipated the rise of machine intelligence. Today, a new generation of self-learning computers is reshaping every aspect of our lives. Will A.I. usher in an age of unprecedented potential, or prove to be our final invention?
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/05/14/how-frightened-should-we-be-of-ai
The Trump administration’s budget for 2018 aims to cut science and technology research funding across the government by 15 percent, according to a report from the American Association for the Advancement of Science. “They are headed in precisely the wrong direction,” said Thomas Kalil, who led O.S.T.P’s Technology and Innovation Division under President Obama. “That is particularly concerning given that China has identified this as a strategic priority.”
DeepMind: inside Google's super-brain
In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/lisa-randall-theoretical-physicist-filter-bubbles-interview
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/how-china-became-tech-superpower-took-over-the-west
The panel points out that public has turned “strongly against the tech giants” in light of the scandal involving Facebook and Cambridge Analytica.
It adds: “Against this background it is hardly surprising that the public should question the motivations of a company so closely linked to Google as Deepmind Health.”
Therefore, the report adds, it is “important for the public to have reassurance about Deepmind Health’s business model” with a focus on how patient data is used and how the company makes its money.
MIT Technology Review
Women in AI
Research from MIT, evaluated commercial facial recognition software, to see if it could correctly identify gender based on 1,200 photographs. It found that it was correct for 99.2% of the time for light skin males, but women with darker-skin tone were only correctly classified as female 65.3% of the time.
Racial bias in algorithms
How I'm fighting bias in algorithms | Joy Buolamwini
