Analyzing Reactions to Music

Sophie Bushwick and Lucy Tu report how AI with simultaneous access to biometric and audio data can predict hit songs by analyzing heart rates when music is playing.

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The Danger of Inaccurate Bots

In a report to The Daily [Podcast], Kevin Roose provides initial information on the capabilities and limitations of an experimental implementation of AI in Microsoft Bing .
Roose notes that the AI bot presents its information as a judgement. He did not indicate that there is a permanent URL available to cite the bot's response, which would be a barrier for students attempting to cite results.
Unstated is the possiblity that the AI bot might be programmed with a dangerous bias to a radical partisan world view.

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Traits of Human Decisions

Herbert Roitblat writes about cognitive errors humans and default decision patterns to which humans are prone. YouTube has a video of the author discussing his recent book, Algorithms Are Not Enough Creating General Artificial Intelligence.

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Interviews and Artificial Intelligence

Sheridan Wall and Hilke Schellmann note that some interview evaluation tools have faulty artificial intelligence .

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Artificial Intelligence and Judgement

Daniel Goleman and Yuhyun Park explore the ethical boundaries of artificial intelligence .

The authors suggest that judgement requires five steps, and artificial intelligence is only competent to deal with the first two. These five steps are:

1. gathering the data we have (information gathering and synthesis);
2. developing information that we do not have (prediction);
3. judging based on prediction (judgement);
4. making decisions based on judgement calls (decision); and,
5. acting based on the chosen decision (action).

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Artifical Intelligence and Governance in China

Christina Larson documents China's use of artifical intelligence to direct the actions of Chinese citizens .

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Artificial Intelligence

Mike Elgan suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) will be the next game-changer in computing, and the first consumer application of this is coming in the form of the latest Apple iPhones.

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Cognative Computing Explained

Bob Violino explains the basics of cognative computing , and how the concept compares with artifical intelligence.

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Andy Rubin and Artificial Intelligence

Jason Tanz interviews Andy Rubin about his work with artificial intelligence.

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Google Tensor Flow Offers Artificial Intelligence to Apps

Sharon Gaudin highlights a new Google artificial intelligence learning system for apps.

I suspect that at least some of the data it learns about users may be shared with Google for its own purposes.

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Machine Learning

Mary Branscombe shares that Microsoft has become a leader in machine learning . Microsoft is putting its artificial intelligence algorithms into many of its offerings, from Skype language translation to Azure Machine Learning.

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