The Singularity Approaches!

Wait... they could be in power NOW!

 

Illuminati Singularity

 

http://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/...ence-is-learning-how-to-develop-games-w502882

 

Machine learning is breaking down language barriers, fuelling – and fighting – cybercrime, and can even recognise emotions, but the complex processes behind these breakthroughs are often a mystery.

Startup Graphcore wants to change this. The Bristol-based firm has created a series of 'AI brain scans', using its development chip and software, to produce Petri dish-style images that reveal what happens as processes run.

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/ai-machine-learning-brain-scan

 

The Artificial Intelligence Gap Is Getting Narrower

The following feature is excerpted from [/I]TIME Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Humankind, available at retailers and at the Time Shop and Amazon

One of the most widely known practitioners of artificial intelligence never used a computer or built what we’d think of as a robot. Mary Shelley’s Dr. Victor Frankenstein, the creator of a “modern Prometheus” capable of thinking and acting on his own, captivated readers from the moment the novel Frankensteinfirst appeared on shelves. But that success belies the fact that Shelley was still ahead of her time. What once seemed like a bizarre fantasy—the notion that man could create a being who could think as we do—is, today, a fascination. It helps that we’ve grown closer, in our world, to making Dr. Frankenstein’s Promethean dream a reality. But the stories have also built upon themselves intriguingly, adding wrinkles to Shelley’s crisply told moral parable about how stealing the fire of the gods was a bad idea. Today’s A.I. stories thrive on ambiguity. They test an audience’s sympathies, challenge our preconceptions, and require very real intelligence.

http://time.com/4967348/hollywood-artificial-intelligence-movies-tv/

 

Why should you care about the AI chips in Apple and Huawei’s new phones?

Earlier this year, both Apple and Huawei made a lot of noise about the new processors in their latest phones, touting the inclusion of a game-changing neural engine or neural processing unit specifically designed to handle artificial intelligence computation. But why should you care, and do you really need an AI-capable phone?

What neither manufacturer managed to do was include game-changing apps to go with these powerful new chips. Apple’s A11 Bionic enables its Face ID tech and Animoji, while Huawei’s NPU-equipped Kirin 970 allows for automatic camera settings for good pictures, and offline support for Bing’s Translator on the new Mate 10 series. But these features are just nice-to-haves, and hardly what you’d call revolutionary.

https://thenextweb.com/mobile/2017/...the-ai-chips-in-apple-and-huaweis-new-phones/

 

Alpha Go Zero beats Alpha Go. Heh.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...-to-play-go-and-beat-the-reigning-ai-champion

 

This Researcher Wants to Open the 'Black Box' of Financial AI

Many neural networks, including those used by the financial industry, are so complex even their own creators can't say exactly how they work.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...r-wants-to-open-the-black-box-of-financial-ai

 

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...aking-ai-conquered-and-was-exiled-from-tinder

 

https://www.wired.com/story/what-my...is-teaching-me-about-artificial-intelligence/

 

Idiocracy is almost here. Heh.

 

It's got electrolytes!