Interesting look from Bloomberg on how the insurance industry is tackling the threat from driverless cars. (Noah Buhayar, Peter Robinson). Here’s one interesting little paragraph that jumped out at me: Allstate already offers a device that tracks driving behavior so … Continue reading Intelligent Machine Links Roundup for August 4, 2015
A case for evolutionary algorithms as A.I.’s next big thing A new study on robot surgery says it’s unclear how many complications — and deaths — it contributes to, says Keith Wagstaff. (Link to the full study). A new startup … Continue reading Roundup of intelligent machine links for July 22, 2015
What happens when you teach a drone to tail a submarine? Really interesting article on the strategic implications of drone tech for the Navy from David Blagden Those whacky kids over at DARPA are also hoping that A.I. can replace … Continue reading Roundup for July 10, 2015
Belated roundup today — but I seem to have found my theme: The End. The Economist on big data and the end of insurance as we know it. Don Draper is Dead, or Michael Wolff on the end of advertizing … Continue reading Roundup for July 3, 2015
Artificial intelligence research is crossing the Rubicon of getting computers to read and understand novels, essays, and other written-by-human-for-humans natural language text, writes Cade Metz in WIRED, with Facebook coming up with an app its says can answer reading comprehension … Continue reading Roundup for June 25, 2015
IBM’s Watson not only wants to help companies stop hurricanes, (per Chris Ciaccia), it will also read your palm…well, your posts, anyway, with a new web app that generates an instant personality profile based on an excerpt of your writing. Amazon is using … Continue reading Roundup for June 22, 2015
It definitely says something about the zeitgeist when even the glossies are getting all existentialist on you, but such is the case with Vanity Fair UK, who are co-sponsoring a Digital Summit today with pundit-mongers Intelligence Squared. The main panel topic … Continue reading Roundup For June 11, 2015
One of the things I’m most interested in in creating this blog is the the opportunity to look at all the different ways that advanced computing/A.I. are affecting the economy — mostly when people think robots they think “factory”, whether … Continue reading Science Bots: Stanford’s Fruit Fly Vacuum
