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Queen awards CBE to Cypriot AI expert - Cyprus Mail

Thu, 01/04/2018 - 02:19

Queen awards CBE to Cypriot AI expert
Cyprus Mail
British artificial intelligence (AI) researcher of Cypriot descent Demis Hassabis has been included in the 2018 New Year Honours' list. The 41-year-old researcher, who was born in London to a father from Famagusta and a mother from Singapore, has been ...

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Chess's New Best Player Is A Fearless, Swashbuckling Algorithm - FiveThirtyEight

Wed, 01/03/2018 - 11:52

FiveThirtyEight

Chess's New Best Player Is A Fearless, Swashbuckling Algorithm
FiveThirtyEight
After just four hours of this tabula rasa training, it clobbered the top chess program, an engine called Stockfish, winning 28 games, drawing 72 and losing zero. These results were described last month in a paper posted on arXiv, a repository of ...

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Can AI Systems Learn How to Learn? - GovernmentCIO Magazine

Wed, 01/03/2018 - 10:16

GovernmentCIO Magazine

Can AI Systems Learn How to Learn?
GovernmentCIO Magazine
A supercomputer toppling a grandmaster at chess is old hat, with IBM's Deep Blue beating Garry Kasparov at the end of the last millennium. DeepMind's artificial intelligence system AlphaGo beat the world champion in 2016 at the even more complex Go ...

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Can AI Systems Learn How to Learn? - GovernmentCIO Magazine

Wed, 01/03/2018 - 10:16

GovernmentCIO Magazine

Can AI Systems Learn How to Learn?
GovernmentCIO Magazine
A supercomputer toppling a grandmaster at chess is old hat, with IBM's Deep Blue beating Garry Kasperov at the end of the last millennium. DeepMind's artificial intelligence system AlphaGo beat the world champion in 2016 at the even more complex Go ...

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Loretta on her way to obtaining her PhD - Witbank News

Wed, 01/03/2018 - 03:12

Witbank News

Loretta on her way to obtaining her PhD
Witbank News
Loretta Magagula (29) is pursuing a PhD in Medical Biochemistry at the University of Cape Town within the Biomedical Translational Research Initiative (BTRI). Loretta received a financial leg-up to pursue her doctorate by ZEISS South Africa. This year ...

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Learning music and playing chess might not make you any smarter, according to 3 decades of research - Business Insider

Tue, 01/02/2018 - 17:25

Learning music and playing chess might not make you any smarter, according to 3 decades of research
Business Insider
Researchers reviewed 35 years of studies and found training your brain with activities like chess, music, or puzzles might not actually impact your intelligence. Music experts have strong memories for notes, but practicing music hasn't shown a direct ...

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10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Make Your Brain Sharper - Big Think (blog)

Mon, 01/01/2018 - 10:09

Big Think (blog)

10 Things You Can Do Right Now to Make Your Brain Sharper
Big Think (blog)
A Canadian study showed that people who spoke two languages processed information more economically, using up less brain circuitry. Plus, being multilingual will likely make you more open to other cultures, making travel more fun. 6. Play chess ...

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What can Qualcomm do to fend off Broadcom? - Los Angeles Times

Mon, 01/01/2018 - 06:01

Los Angeles Times

What can Qualcomm do to fend off Broadcom?
Los Angeles Times
The two tech giants are supposedly wary of Apple's influence over the deal and worried about Broadcom's reputation for cutting costs rather than investing in new technologies, which could interfere with Qualcomm's 5G research. In a research note ...

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Artificial Intelligence's "Holy Grail" Victory - Montana Standard

Sun, 12/31/2017 - 13:25

Montana Standard

Artificial Intelligence's "Holy Grail" Victory
Montana Standard
As researchers began to ask computers to solve complex, real-world problems like diagnosing diseases or translating Russian, it turned out that many of these complex problems could only be solved in theory but not in practice. The time and memory ...

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Artificial Intelligence's "Holy Grail" Victory - Motley Fool

Sun, 12/31/2017 - 12:23

Artificial Intelligence's "Holy Grail" Victory
Motley Fool
To understand why such a simple game has confounded AI research for decades, it's helpful to contrast Go with chess. For decades, it was said that computers would be intelligent if only they could play chess. Then, half a century after Alan Turing ...

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Why Are Trump's Troops Training ISIS Terrorists? - Center for Research on Globalization

Sun, 12/31/2017 - 08:18

Center for Research on Globalization

Why Are Trump's Troops Training ISIS Terrorists?
Center for Research on Globalization
The new national survey by the Pew Research Center, conducted Dec. 11-14 among 1,001 adults, finds that amid competing claims over the effectiveness of CIA interrogation methods, 56% believe they provided intelligence that helped prevent terrorist ...

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Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov Shares Thoughts on AI Developments - Christian Post

Sun, 12/31/2017 - 05:04

Christian Post

Chess Grandmaster Garry Kasparov Shares Thoughts on AI Developments
Christian Post
Google's AlphaGo, often cited as the foremost example of groundbreaking research into AI, has beaten World Number One Go Player Ke Jie in his own game earlier this May. Ke Jie, who was confident before the match that AlphaGo has no chance to defeat him ...

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'I instructed you so,' chess legend Garry Kasparov says on Russian interference within the US election - Kaplan Herald

Sat, 12/30/2017 - 00:38

'I instructed you so,' chess legend Garry Kasparov says on Russian interference within the US election
Kaplan Herald
Then they extended this practice to Russian speaking neighborhoods in the former Soviet Union. Then they tried it in Europe. Eventually they successfully tried it in the United States.” that about 80,000 posts backed by Russia got onto the social ...

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Space science work recognised in New Year Honours - BBC News

Fri, 12/29/2017 - 16:34

BBC News

Space science work recognised in New Year Honours
BBC News
Another to receive a CBE is Dr Demis Hassabis, the co-founder and chief executive officer of DeepMind, a world leading company in artificial intelligence research. The firm's computer programme defeated a human Go player in 2016, in what was seen as a ...

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2017 Data: Pew Research Shows People Fear Robots Taking Jobs - Breitbart News

Thu, 12/28/2017 - 17:38

Breitbart News

2017 Data: Pew Research Shows People Fear Robots Taking Jobs
Breitbart News
Neural-networked artificial intelligences are already dominating games of immense complexity like Chess and the ancient Chinese game of Go. Their next challenge is the exponential increase in action complexity of a live game like Blizzard's Starcraft ...

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It Was a Big Year for AI - Slate Magazine (blog)

Thu, 12/28/2017 - 08:15

Slate Magazine (blog)

It Was a Big Year for AI
Slate Magazine (blog)
“Agents will drift off understandable language and invent codewords for themselves,” said Dhruv Batra, visiting research scientist from Georgia Tech at Facebook A.I. Research, in an interview with FastCo Design. While this got a lot of blowback in the ...

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Vanity and some old habits - Manila Bulletin

Thu, 12/28/2017 - 08:01

Vanity and some old habits
Manila Bulletin
Eye Associates Research lab report: Based on their clinical findings, EAR released their newest product, Nuviante Eyelash Enhancer. EAR claims that its clinically tested formula contains enzymes, peptides, anti-oxidants and vitamins essential for lash ...

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Gravitational waves, gene editing and other top science stories of 2017 - The Hindu

Wed, 12/27/2017 - 08:28

The Hindu

Gravitational waves, gene editing and other top science stories of 2017
The Hindu
In January, Libratus, an artificial intelligence computer created by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University defeated four top class poker players. In March, “AlphaGo”, Google-run artificial intelligence (AI), defeated legendary Go player Lee Se-dol ...

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When Spock Met PLATO - WIRED

Wed, 12/27/2017 - 06:00

WIRED

When Spock Met PLATO
WIRED
And now here he was in the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory at the University of Illinois. The voice was the same. It was him. But it wasn't. Those tiny ears! Nimoy and his entourage made their way down the first-floor hallway, past ...

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