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Q&A: Douglas Hofstadter on why AI is far from intelligent - Quartz

Tue, 10/10/2017 - 06:01

Quartz

Q&A: Douglas Hofstadter on why AI is far from intelligent
Quartz
The field of artificial intelligence may finally be coming back around to Douglas Hofstadter. Since winning a Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction for his 1979 book Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Hofstadter, 72, has been quietly thinking about ...

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Emphasis on 'Transformative' Research Might Do More Harm Than ... - Inside Higher Ed

Tue, 10/10/2017 - 02:23

Emphasis on 'Transformative' Research Might Do More Harm Than ...
Inside Higher Ed
Researchers studying research have found that some research proposals can be ineffective for research at large, according to new research. Funding proposals ...

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Pipelines next target in energy crisis blame game - The Sydney Morning Herald

Tue, 10/10/2017 - 01:52

The Sydney Morning Herald

Pipelines next target in energy crisis blame game
The Sydney Morning Herald
Rob Koh, Utilities and Infrastructure Research Analyst, Morgan Stanley, Saul Kavonic, Head of oil, gas, energy and renewables – Australasia, Wood Mackenzie, John Hirjee, Managing Director – Senior Research Analyst – Energy & Utilities, Deutsche Bank ...

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Nobel economist Richard Thaler focuses on the irrational - The Australian

Mon, 10/09/2017 - 23:56

The Australian

Nobel economist Richard Thaler focuses on the irrational
The Australian
The strain of research came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s and challenged the popular view in economics that individual decision-making was rational, predictable and easily modelled. Mr Thaler didn't see that in everyday life. The Royal Swedish ...

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Chess prodigy moves to play hijab-free - The Australian - The Australian

Mon, 10/09/2017 - 22:14

The Australian

Chess prodigy moves to play hijab-free - The Australian
The Australian
As a child chess prodigy in Iran, Dorsa Derakhshani first attracted attention by wearing a princess dress and tiara at a national tournament where all her ...

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'Chess in an impenetrable black box': Who really holds the power in China? - CNN

Mon, 10/09/2017 - 16:08

CNN

'Chess in an impenetrable black box': Who really holds the power in China?
CNN
"Even more striking is his determination to leverage Alibaba's massive earnings to spearhead research in high-tech, particularly AI, cloud computing, "deep learning" and related know-how." But in China no one is untouchable. Just recently billionaire ...

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Technicals Focus on Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP) - Nelson Research

Mon, 10/09/2017 - 12:16

Technicals Focus on Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP)
Nelson Research
Technical analysis is a trading tool that used to scrutinize securities as well as an attempt to forecast their future movements by analyzing trading activity statistics such as volume and price fluctuations. Where fundamental analysts attempt to ...

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Technicals Focus on Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP) - Nelson Research

Mon, 10/09/2017 - 12:16

Technicals Focus on Chess Supersite Corp (CHZP)
Nelson Research
Technical analysis is a trading tool that used to scrutinize securities as well as an attempt to forecast their future movements by analyzing trading activity statistics such as volume and price fluctuations. Where fundamental analysts attempt to ...

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Facebook Quietly Enters StarCraft War for AI Bots, and Loses - WIRED

Mon, 10/09/2017 - 06:00

WIRED

Facebook Quietly Enters StarCraft War for AI Bots, and Loses
WIRED
Facebook's AI research group, which lists 80 researchers on its website and is led by NYU professor Yann LeCun, has produced many research papers but not notched up an achievement as striking as Google's with Go. Facebook has released three ...

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Richard Thaler of US wins Nobel Economics Prize - The Australian

Mon, 10/09/2017 - 05:47

The Australian

Richard Thaler of US wins Nobel Economics Prize
The Australian
“His empirical findings and theoretical insights have been instrumental in creating the new and rapidly expanding field of behavioural economics, which has had a profound impact on many areas of economic research and policy,” the Nobel jury said in a ...

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UC Berkeley researchers to develop new ultra-high-resolution MRI brain scanner - News-Medical.net

Sun, 10/08/2017 - 12:51

UC Berkeley researchers to develop new ultra-high-resolution MRI brain scanner
News-Medical.net
Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, has transformed our view of the brain, allowing researchers to pinpoint areas associated with everything from depression and dementia to playing chess and engaging in sex. Its key limitation, however, ...

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Premier League clubs reveal parents' fears over heading the ball after Roy Keane sparks furore with chess jibe - Daily Mail

Sat, 10/07/2017 - 16:27

Daily Mail

Premier League clubs reveal parents' fears over heading the ball after Roy Keane sparks furore with chess jibe
Daily Mail
His retirement reflects the worries of parents of young players and highlights the urgent need for research into whether there are links between heading the ball and concussion or the degenerative disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE ...
Concerns on dementiaBusiness Mirror

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UCR physicist is proud of his father for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics - Press-Enterprise

Sat, 10/07/2017 - 08:01

Press-Enterprise

UCR physicist is proud of his father for winning the Nobel Prize in Physics
Press-Enterprise
“I had things in common with my father. We played tennis and basketball, and especially chess.” In his research at UC Riverside, Kenneth Barish is working to understand the spin structure of the proton. “The proton is the fundamental building block of ...

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Physicists, engineers to build next-generation MRI brain scanner - Phys.Org

Fri, 10/06/2017 - 15:01

Phys.Org

Physicists, engineers to build next-generation MRI brain scanner
Phys.Org
Functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, has transformed our view of the brain, allowing researchers to pinpoint areas associated with everything from depression and dementia to playing chess and engaging in sex. Its key limitation, however, ...

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Doina Precup to head DeepMind's new AI lab - McGill Reporter

Fri, 10/06/2017 - 13:38

McGill Reporter

Doina Precup to head DeepMind's new AI lab
McGill Reporter
A former child chess prodigy and a giant in the video-game industry, Hassabis has a PhD in neuroscience and is known for his research on memory and imagination. “DeepMind has huge admiration and respect for the Canadian AI research community, and ...

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Checking the Levels For Chess Supersite Corporation (CHZP) - Rives Journal

Fri, 10/06/2017 - 12:13

Checking the Levels For Chess Supersite Corporation (CHZP)
Rives Journal
Investors have the ability to use technical indicators when completing stock research. At the time of writing, Chess Supersite Corporation (CHZP) has a 14-day Commodity Channel Index (CCI) of -35.90. Developed by Donald Lambert, the CCI is a versatile ...

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Play chess if you don't want to get hurt, says Keane - SAMAA TV News Pakistan

Fri, 10/06/2017 - 05:57

SAMAA TV News Pakistan

Play chess if you don't want to get hurt, says Keane
SAMAA TV News Pakistan
NEWS DESK: Manchester United legend Roy Keane has responded to growing fears about the damage done by concussions in sport by telling stars to 'play chess' if they are worried about getting hurt, reported AFP. Keane now serves as assistant to Republic ...

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Arita ware firms aim to conquer chess market and Olympics - Asahi Shimbun

Thu, 10/05/2017 - 17:10

Asahi Shimbun

Arita ware firms aim to conquer chess market and Olympics
Asahi Shimbun
Takashi Haraguchi, president of pottery sales company Toraku, and others developed chess pieces made of porcelain and began selling them by subscription, targeting the estimated 700 million people who play the board game across the world. Haraguchi, 66 ...

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Roy Keane's concussion comments point to a man and a sport still out of touch with the times - The Independent

Thu, 10/05/2017 - 10:21

The Independent

Roy Keane's concussion comments point to a man and a sport still out of touch with the times
The Independent
But his latest remarks, urging footballers concerned by concussion to "play chess" instead, point to a man desperately out of touch with the times and one who has forgotten his responsibilities as a United icon. Brain injuries in football are no ...

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Google AI Boasts Much Higher IQ Than Microsoft Bing And Apple Siri In New Study - Hot Hardware

Wed, 10/04/2017 - 10:01

Hot Hardware

Google AI Boasts Much Higher IQ Than Microsoft Bing And Apple Siri In New Study
Hot Hardware
Researchers Feng Liu, Yong Shi, and Ying Liu set out to test and rank the intelligence quotient (IQ) of various natural and artificial intelligent systems, including humans, Google, Bing, Baidu, and Siri. ... humans did not provide help to the program ...

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