AI in Video Games: Toward a More Intelligent Game

by Harbing Lou figures by Shannon McArdel AI, the foundation of all video games If you have ever played a video game, you have interacted with artificial intelligence (AI). Regardless of whether you prefer race-car games like Need for Speed, strategy games like Civilization, or shooting games like Counter Strike, you will always find elements controlled by AI. AIs are often behind the characters you … Continue reading AI in Video Games: Toward a More Intelligent Game

How Artificial Intelligence Will Revolutionize the Energy Industry

by Franklin Wolfe figures by Franklin Wolfe and Kimia Mavon Earlier this year, Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft and the richest man on Earth, wrote an essay online at “The blog of Bill Gates,” to college students graduating worldwide in 2017. He stated, “If I were starting out today… I would consider three fields. One is artificial intelligence (AI). We have only begun to tap … Continue reading How Artificial Intelligence Will Revolutionize the Energy Industry

Software Complementing Hardware: Artificial intelligence in the clinic

by Sherif Gerges figures by Olivia Foster Most of a physician’s working hours involve pattern recognition and high-level problem solving. Throughout his or her professional tenure, a dermatologist will analyze over two hundred thousand skin lesions, while a radiologist will look at millions of medical images. Yet becoming sufficiently proficient at diagnosing these images is no cakewalk: physicians spend decades building a mental reference database … Continue reading Software Complementing Hardware: Artificial intelligence in the clinic

The History of Artificial Intelligence

by Rockwell Anyoha Can Machines Think? In the first half of the 20th century, science fiction familiarized the world with the concept of artificially intelligent robots. It began with the “heartless” Tin man from the Wizard of Oz and continued with the humanoid robot that impersonated Maria in Metropolis. By the 1950s, we had a generation of scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers with the concept of … Continue reading The History of Artificial Intelligence

Psychosis, Dreams, and Memory in AI

by Henry Wilkin figures by Rebecca Clements The original dream of research in artificial intelligence was to understand what it is that makes us who we are. Because of this, artificial intelligence has always been close to cognitive science, even if the two have been somewhat far apart in practice. Functional AIs have tended to do best at quickly finding ‘good-enough’ approaches to problems that … Continue reading Psychosis, Dreams, and Memory in AI

Building a Better Human: How scientists plan to merge man and machine to transcend human limitations

by Julia Nguyen figures by Alexandra Was What would you give for a brain chip that seamlessly translates any language into your native tongue? Or a retinal implant that lets you see in the dark? Or an implant that lets you record every single memory and experience in your life and replay it at any moment? This is all science fiction, but it may not … Continue reading Building a Better Human: How scientists plan to merge man and machine to transcend human limitations

Self-driving Cars: The technology, risks and possibilities

by Tim Menke figures by Neal Akatsuka Imagine getting into your car in the morning, sipping your coffee and sitting back to relax while your car drives you to work. Then you remember to call a friend who you have not spoken to in a while, or you have a look at the amazing photos from your latest vacation. It is, of course, not a … Continue reading Self-driving Cars: The technology, risks and possibilities

Recommended For You: How machine learning helps you choose what to consume next

by Jennifer Wei figures by Jeep Veerasak Srisuknimit Ever wonder how music-streaming services such as Spotify and Pandora find songs that you like? Or how Facebook and Google find stories that are interesting to you? Many technology companies use machine learning algorithms to give personalized product suggestions; these algorithms can be found everywhere on the internet. One such algorithm may have even led you to … Continue reading Recommended For You: How machine learning helps you choose what to consume next

How Tay “Machine Learned” Her Way to Become a Twitter Troll

In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion phonetics professor Henry Higgins bets that he can teach Eliza Doolittle, a Cockney flower girl, enough proper English to pass for a duchess. A little over 100 years after Pygmalion’s publication, Microsoft launched a Twitter bot named Tay with the goal of understanding how millennials communicate and in doing so created a bot that can pass for a millennial. Much … Continue reading How Tay “Machine Learned” Her Way to Become a Twitter Troll

Man < Machine Round 2: Money siphoning no longer restricted to sleazy Wall Street bankers

Not content with stealing our jobs and beating our top Go players, artificial intelligence (AI) has now turned to cleaning out our bank accounts. DELIA (Deep Learning Interface for Accounting), developed by Stanford and Google, was created to allow distracted humans to shrug off some of the busy work of transferring money between bank accounts. Unfortunately for the clients of Sandhill Community Credit Union who … Continue reading Man < Machine Round 2: Money siphoning no longer restricted to sleazy Wall Street bankers