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Jun 20, 2016
New chip design makes parallel programs run many times faster and requires one-tenth the code
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: computing, robotics/AI
Computer chips have stopped getting faster. For the past 10 years, chips’ performance improvements have come from the addition of processing units known as cores.
In theory, a program on a 64-core machine would be 64 times as fast as it would be on a single-core machine. But it rarely works out that way. Most computer programs are sequential, and splitting them up so that chunks of them can run in parallel causes all kinds of complications.
In the May/June issue of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ journal Micro, researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) will present a new chip design they call Swarm, which should make parallel programs not only much more efficient but easier to write, too.
Jun 20, 2016
OpenAI technical goals
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: governance, neuroscience, robotics/AI
OpenAI’s mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI’s benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible. We’re trying to build AI as part of a larger community, and we want to share our plans and capabilities along the way. We’re also working to solidify our organization’s governance structure and will share our thoughts on that later this year.
Our metric
Defining a metric for intelligence is tricky, but we need one to measure our progress and focus our research. We’re thus building a living metric which measures how well an agent can achieve its user’s intended goal in a wide range of environments.
Jun 20, 2016
This Robot Is A Security Guard
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, security
Jun 20, 2016
Musk: Half of Cars Made in 7 or 8 Years Will Be Driverless
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Jun 19, 2016
Machine Intelligence Will Let Us All Work Like CEOs
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: robotics/AI
Working like a CEO; hmmm. Do they realize how hard many CEOs work? I am not talking about the Jamie Diamons or the Bezos of the world; but the majority CEOs in the world.
Get ready for a team of automated assistants.
Jun 19, 2016
Dark bots: The cat-and-mouse game begins
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: internet, robotics/AI, security
Will the good bots finish last in the war of bots? Dark bots are definitely not that easily stopped by AI in companies.
The bot era is here, and the world has already begun to see its transformative potential. But like any technology, there will be bad bots as predictably as good ones. With every advancement, there are people looking to exploit it. Anticipating what they might do is key so that builders, developers, and users can prevent, preempt, and prepare.
Here are the “dark bots” we’re likely to see:
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Jun 19, 2016
DARPA Begins Development of More Complex A.I
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: robotics/AI
Jun 19, 2016
DARPA Takes Giant Stride in Creating Weapons that Vaporize and Self-destruct
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: military, robotics/AI
The more that DARPA works on NextGen Military equipment and machines; it feels like 1970s Star Wars is coming to life. Autonomous Jets with Death Lasers, dissovable weapons after usage, etc. Actually, this is good and bad.
DARPA’s transient technology was initially developed under an aptly named DARPA program called VAPR for “Vanishing Programmable Resources.” This program seeks electronic systems capable of physically disappearing in a controlled, triggerable manner.
“These transient electronics should have performance comparable to commercial-off-the-shelf electronics, but with limited device persistence that can be programmed, adjusted in real-time, triggered, and/or be sensitive to the deployment environment,” said DARPA.
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Jun 19, 2016
Self-driving tractors and data science: A visit to a modern farm
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: food, robotics/AI, science, sustainability, transportation
Self driving tractors are a big benefit for farmers and thier families.
Farming isn’t the low-tech endeavour some might think.