The £400m megamind (London Evening Standard (West End Final B), Fri, 31 Jan 2014, Page 20)

WHICH one piece of technology would Europe's most valuable artificial intelligence expert be likely to have with him at all times, I wonder? Demis Hassabis looks at me with a hint of embarrassment. "I tend to be the sort of person who waits to see how...

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Monarch migration to Mexico at risk (Toronto Star, Thu, 30 Jan 2014, Page A14)

MEXICO CITY— The stunning and littleunderstood annual winter migration of millions of monarch butterflies to Mexico is in danger of disappearing, experts said Wednesday, after numbers dropped to their lowest level since record-keeping began in 1993....

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Banks Scan Trader Talk for Signs (The Wall Street Journal Europe, Fri, 06 Dec 2013, Page 1)

LONDON— Banks have banned cellphones, barred electronic chat rooms and forced traders to go on vacation. But in the battle to avoid trading scandals, a new weapon is coming to the fore: algorithms that detect potentially troublesome patterns in...

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Facebook Building Major Artificial Intelligence System To Understand Who We Are

Finally, everyone seems to be jumping on board with Artificial Intelligence (besides Financial Engineers).

Major dollars are now being invested here, so we can assume a significant anticipated payoff in the near future. Or, it could be that the payoffs aren't clear yet, but corporate strategists don't want to take a chance on being left out of the game.

What is the catalyst? Who are the champions? Who are the new faces?

I'll be compiling items, investigating the stakes, stakeholders, and other questions in upcoming posts.

Cameron Scott, SingularityHub, "Facebook builds AI system"
Sean Coughlan, BBC News, "Existential Risk as a Global Priority"
Rip Empson, TechCrunch, "Autonomous Driving"
Ben Goertzel, IEET, "Artificial Wisdom"
Terry A. Ward, University of Iowa, "Artificial Intelligence Research: An Evangelical Perspective"
Russell C. Bjork, "Artificial Intelligence and the Soul"
Enrico Coiera, "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine: An Introduction"
Jim Hendler (Steven Cherry podcast), IEEE Spectrum, "IBM's Watson Tries to Learn...Everything"
David Selinger, IT BusinessEdge, "Hill Climbing: From Artificial Intelligence to Business Intelligence"
Randall C. O'Reilly, "Biologically Based Computational Models of High-Level Thinking"
James Barat, Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence and the End of the Human Era

Linear programming, applied math, axioms

How applied maths helps money grow on trees (The Irish Times, Oct 3 2013, Page12)

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How applied maths helps money grow on trees

The Irish Times
Oct 3 2013
ABerkeley graduate student, George Dantzig, was late for class. He scribbled down two problems from the blackboard and handed in solutions a few days later. But the problems on the board were not homework assignments; they were two famous unsolved......read more...

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Very interesting idea whose time may now be upon us (at last).

I imagine this will be extended to simultaneous voice translation.

Software to clarify speech dials up new audience (National Post - (Latest Edition), Oct 3 2013)

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Software to clarify speech dials up new audience

National Post - (Latest Edition)
Oct 3 2013
It began as a fascinating, made-in-Canada technology to render the voices of people with cerebral palsy and other speech-impeding conditions more intelligible. Now the developers of unique speech-transformation software are talking to companies with......read more...

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