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Israeli debate champs beat computer, just barely - The Jerusalem Post

Thu, 06/21/2018 - 16:53

The Jerusalem Post

Israeli debate champs beat computer, just barely
The Jerusalem Post
Project Debater is the latest AI innovation from IBM; its “Deep Blue” system took on chess world champion Garry Kasparov in 1997 and its “Watson” beat human champions on Jeopardy in 2011. However, debating takes on a different form of competition, one ...

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Bridge tournament to raise money on Longest Day - Post-Bulletin

Thu, 06/21/2018 - 08:05

Post-Bulletin

Bridge tournament to raise money on Longest Day
Post-Bulletin
Many celebrate the Alzheimer's Association's Longest Day, an annual event where teams raise money for research by doing things they love. ... “We also know that playing strategy games like chess and bridge … keeps brains working,” Greenberg said.

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Meet the AI that IBM Research is teaching to debate human beings - Fast Company

Wed, 06/20/2018 - 09:16

Fast Company

Meet the AI that IBM Research is teaching to debate human beings
Fast Company
Since 2012, IBM Research has been teaching it to debate humans on a vast array of subjects—making it a successor to Deep Blue (which beat Garry Kasparov in a six-game chess match in 1997) and Watson (which won a Jeopardy tournament against Ken ...
Israeli-led IBM system debates with humans, but who wins?ISRAEL21c
Future of robots now debatableArkansas Online
IBM's debating AI is here to convince you that you're wrongThe Star Online
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Israeli-led IBM system debates with humans, but who wins? - ISRAEL21c

Wed, 06/20/2018 - 02:37

ISRAEL21c

Israeli-led IBM system debates with humans, but who wins?
ISRAEL21c
... should be increased. Preparation for Project Debater began six years ago at the IBM's Haifa research lab, but IBM Research principal investigator and creator of Project Debater Noam Slonim said the AI system only gained the ability to participate ...
IBM's robot debater is ready to convince you that you're wrongSeattle Times
IBM AI Enabled Project Debater Jokes, Argues and Makes Mistakes Just Like HumansTechnowize
IBM's machine argues, pretty convincingly, with humansBusinessGhana

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So Just How Many Are There? - GenomeWeb

Wed, 06/20/2018 - 02:00
So Just How Many Are There?  GenomeWeb

Johns Hopkins University's Steven Salzberg and his colleagues have come up with a new estimate for the number of human genes, Nature News reports.

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Meet the AI that IBM Research is teaching to debate human beings - Fast Company

Wed, 06/20/2018 - 02:00
Meet the AI that IBM Research is teaching to debate human beings  Fast Company

Beating flesh-and-blood chess and Jeopardy champs was one thing. Training Project Debater to sway opinion is a brand new challenge.

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Report: Broader remit sees CMOs struggling to meet expectations - CMO

Tue, 06/19/2018 - 20:00

CMO

Report: Broader remit sees CMOs struggling to meet expectations
CMO
Almost two in three marketers have expanded their responsibilities beyond marketing to include managing CX, but the same proportion still struggle to meet basic brand governance expectations, new research from Simple and the Australian Marketing ...

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IBM's robot debater is ready to convince you that you're wrong - Seattle Times

Tue, 06/19/2018 - 19:19

Seattle Times

IBM's robot debater is ready to convince you that you're wrong
Seattle Times
Artificial intelligence has proved itself adept at some of humanity's favorite games, from chess to the much more complex board game Go. Now, a machine developed by IBM is challenging humans to debates about the future of medicine and the ... Project ...

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New IBM robot holds its own in a debate with a human - NBCNews.com

Tue, 06/19/2018 - 16:12

NBCNews.com

New IBM robot holds its own in a debate with a human
NBCNews.com
... stands about five and a half feet tall, putting it around the same height as a human opponent. “Project Debater could be the ultimate fact-based sounding board without the bias that often comes from humans,” said Arvind Krishna, director of IBM ...
IBM shows off an artificial intelligence that can debate a human – and do pretty wellUSA TODAY
IBM debuts Project Debater, experimental AI that argues with humansVentureBeat
IBM's new AI supercomputer can argue, rebut and debate humansBusiness Insider
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Self-Taught AI Masters Rubik's Cube In Just 44 Hours - Gizmodo Australia

Tue, 06/19/2018 - 03:21

Gizmodo Australia

Self-Taught AI Masters Rubik's Cube In Just 44 Hours
Gizmodo Australia
Unlike chess and Go - games in which it's relatively easy for a system to determine if a move was "good" or "bad" - it isn't immediately clear to an AI that's trying to solve the Rubik's Cube if a particular move has improved the overall state of the ...

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Wellington, Royal Palm Beach area events: June 20-30 - Sun Sentinel

Tue, 06/19/2018 - 02:02

Sun Sentinel

Wellington, Royal Palm Beach area events: June 20-30
Sun Sentinel
Sign up to get one-on-one assistance in a 30-minute session with a librarian to guide you through online genealogy research. Must preregister; free. Wellington ... Chess fans of all ages unite to practice strategy skills with other players. Basic game ...

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IBM shows off an artificial intelligence that can debate a human and change some minds - WGRZ.com

Mon, 06/18/2018 - 22:56

WGRZ.com

IBM shows off an artificial intelligence that can debate a human and change some minds
WGRZ.com
SAN FRANCISCO — IBM computers famously won at Jeopardy! and beat world class chess masters. Now, they're ... “We believe that mastering language is a fundamental frontier that AI has to cross,” says IBM Research director Arvind Krishna. “There's ...
An IBM computer debates humans -- and wins -- in a new, nuanced competitionCNET
IBM debuts Project Debater, experimental AI that argues with humansVentureBeat

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IBM shows off an artificial intelligence that can debate a human and change some minds - USA TODAY

Mon, 06/18/2018 - 22:41

USA TODAY

IBM shows off an artificial intelligence that can debate a human and change some minds
USA TODAY
IBM Research's experimental artificial intelligence system, Project Debater, with debater Dan Zafrir. (Photo: IBM/handout) ... SAN FRANCISCO — IBM computers famously won at Jeopardy! and beat world class chess masters. Now, they're taking on human ...

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An IBM computer debates humans -- and wins -- in a new, nuanced competition - CNET

Mon, 06/18/2018 - 21:03

CNET

An IBM computer debates humans -- and wins -- in a new, nuanced competition
CNET
We saw computers beat humans at chess in 1997, beat humans at Jeopardy in 2011 and vanquish the world's best human players of the ancient game of Go in 2017. On Monday, a ... IBM Project Debater researchers Noam Slonim and Ranit Aharonov.
IBM shows off an artificial intelligence that can debate a human and change some mindsWGRZ.com

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IBM unveils AI that can debate humans live in its next Jeopardy! moment - The Australian Financial Review

Mon, 06/18/2018 - 21:01

The Australian Financial Review

IBM unveils AI that can debate humans live in its next Jeopardy! moment
The Australian Financial Review
IBM Research vice president of AI technology, Aya Soffer, told The Australian Financial Review the Project Debater breakthrough was more meaningful than its Jeopardy! and Deep Blue wins (when IBM's Deep Blue computer beat the world class chess ...

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Self-Taught AI Masters Rubik's Cube in Just 44 Hours - Gizmodo

Mon, 06/18/2018 - 12:01

Gizmodo

Self-Taught AI Masters Rubik's Cube in Just 44 Hours
Gizmodo
Unlike chess and Go—games in which it's relatively easy for a system to determine if a move was “good” or “bad”—it's not immediately clear to an AI that's trying to solve the Rubik's Cube if a particular move has improved the overall state of the ...

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MLB turns to BGSU professor to help study home run phenomenon - Toledo Blade

Mon, 06/18/2018 - 08:33

Toledo Blade

MLB turns to BGSU professor to help study home run phenomenon
Toledo Blade
Longtime BGSU statistics professor Jim Albert, who has done extensive research into baseball during his career, was part a 10-person committee created by MLB commissioner Rob Manfred's office to answer one question. ... In such one 1999 paper that came ...

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After AlphaGo Zero's Fabulous Win, Why Hasn't DeepMind AI Come Up With Anything Spectacular? - Analytics India Magazine

Mon, 06/18/2018 - 06:43

Analytics India Magazine

After AlphaGo Zero's Fabulous Win, Why Hasn't DeepMind AI Come Up With Anything Spectacular?
Analytics India Magazine
DeepMind AI has explored chess and Go to develop its strongest programmes and sophisticated techniques, which is evident from the number of times it has beat human Go players. It improved a step further and developed AlphaGo ... With this research ...

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Malaysia among Asian emerging nations comfortable with Fed hikes - The Star Online

Sun, 06/17/2018 - 18:06

The Star Online

Malaysia among Asian emerging nations comfortable with Fed hikes
The Star Online
... forced by the Fed into action because some of them have such enormous surpluses that they would probably be happy to see weaker currencies and capital outflows, at the margin," said Frederic Neumann, co-head of Asian economic research at HSBC.

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