Jan 3,2016

Jan 3, 2016

Hey everyone! I am looking forward to getting to know you all, as we work on this artificial intelligence blog. Here are some interesting links I found talking about the future of artificial intelligence. In addition I am posting a video about movies that revolve around artificial intelligence. I hope you enjoys these and find them interesting.

http://stayontheblack.com/2016/01/google-plots-whatsapp-rival-with-artificial-intelligence/

http://www.graciouscolumn.com/digital-gift-your-new-year-will-be-filled-with-artificial-intelligence/25763/

http://www.southbendtribune.com/news/business/facebook-works-to-improve-social-media-for-the-blind/article_4f7ce690-45cb-5504-a48e-82bd4bf68553.html

Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C23Z3ANGk-U 

What is the Future of Artificial Intelligence? (DRAFT)

As a kid, I was (and still am, for that matter) a huge fan of the Star Wars series. After watching the most recent installment in the series, Episode VII: The Force Awakens, the thought happened to cross my mind: what future does AI possess? Will AI develop into droids, like the infamous C-3PO, R2-D2, or BB-8, and transform our world into their "galaxy far, far away?"

Of course, for die-hard fans of the series, this would be a dream come true.

Humans have successfully developed AI systems that are capable of performing  *continue research here*

However, despite the advances that AI has made during the last few decades, humans are far from replicating the technology of the Star Wars universe. We are a ways away from creating "robot sentience", so AI just might not be the droids that you are looking for.

Artificial Intelligence in the field of knowledge representation and reasoning

Artificial Intelligence in the field of knowledge representation and reasoning: 

Knowledge representation and reasoning (KR) is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to representing information about the world in a form that a computer system can utilize to solve complex tasks such as diagnosing a medical condition or having a dialog in a natural language. Knowledge representation incorporates findings from psychology about how humans solve problems and represent knowledge in order to design formalisms that will make complex systems easier to design and build. Knowledge representation and reasoning also incorporates findings from logic to automate various kinds of reasoning, such as the application of rules or the relations of sets and subsets.

Examples of knowledge representation formalisms include semantic nets, systems architecture, Frames, Rules, and ontologies. Examples of automated reasoning engines include inference engines, theorem provers, and classifiers.

you can also read following links to know the details of knowledge representation and reasoning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute-value_systembute-value_system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonsense_knowledge_(artificial_intelligence)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valuation-based_system

Hello everyone !
These are some really cool links to understand the current trend in AI Research.

https://www.csail.mit.edu/research
http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/ai/intelligent_interaction/
http://www.jair.org
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/dvm/papers/conscioushb.pdf
http://www.sciedupress.com/journal/index.php/air

I see in each subtopic, we are discussing the 'future of AI' in one way or another. Well this pondering over the future has made us ignorant over the present. A phenomenon we don't realise, at this very moment the world is half dependent on AI. From millions of smartphone users, currently giving voice commands to their intelligent assistants on their phones to hundreds of thousands of people currently in the atmosphere, travelling comfortably in airplanes controlled by the Auto pilot in cockpit, we all depend on the AI. The primary reason for this unconsciousness of the importance of AI in our existing every day life is because we usually relate AI with what we see in our favourite sci-fi blockbusters. Robots killing humans, vehicles for intergalactic travel, etc. 

My personal interpretation of AI tech is that the whole concept of AI is just a modern modification of basic computational machines of the I age. AI is just a byproduct of Free-radical addition of  hyper complex computational algorithms with large memory storage drives to store millions of results (memorise the mistakes) and compute and interpret in a better way next time.(learning from mistakes)

While billions of dollars are being spent on AI R&D by almost every industry in the world (obviously, except the Dairy and animal husbandry sector ), all of it is harmless.

The only place where  AI may prove out to be a real harm to the humanity and our life sustaining planet, when the scenes of the Sci-fi movies may turn out to be true, when there would be red warm blood on semiconductors and metal.....is WARFARE!!

While resources on net may give you both mild and extreme stands on the topic, I think just like a small equation by Einstein and a little research project at US Army facilities ultimately led to the global production and possession of nuclear weapons at such a large extent that the sole nuclear capabilities of India can vanish the whole Earth!! , the mistake of introducing a new fatal genre of weapons is definitely not a good idea and would unarguably proliferate amongst the Army units of the world.

There were many heated debates and events surrounding the topic. The most historic/interesting of all being the Open Letter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_on_Artificial_Intelligence) . 

Here are some more links on the subject  covering MIT, Elon Musk and the Future Warfares:-

1)  http://www.academia.edu/11541234/Artificial_Intelligence_and_Future_Warfare

2) http://www.technologyreview.com/news/539876/military-robots-armed-but-how-dangerous/

3)http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/27/artificially-assured-destruction/#.bk3rmib:R63g

4)http://time.com/3973500/elon-musk-stephen-hawking-ai-weapons/

Some random video links:-

1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwEGEy1gXhs

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwrjAa1SgjQ

3) Ride in Mercedes’s F 015 Driverless Car | Molly Wood | The New York Times

I am looking forward to discussion on this and other topics.

Best of luck!!

Artificial Intelligence

First researched by John McCarthy in 1956, Artificial Intelligence is a sub-field and a hot topic in informatics. The goal of Artificial Intelligence is to develop technology that has the ability to complete tasks that are usually completed by humans.

If Artificial Intelligence were put on a spectrum, there would be weak AI, strong AI and everything in between. Weak AI, also known as narrow AI, is technology that can act like humans, but cannot reflect how humans think. In other words, a system that focuses on a specific task and tends to surpass the human’s ability in completing that task. A great example would be IBM’s Deep Blue, a computer who beat the world’s chess champion in 1997. Although it was a master at chess, if Deep Blue was told to play a different game, it would not know anything.

Strong AI or general AI is technology that aims to become fully ‘human’. In other words, it is an AI system that is designed to cover a more general scope of abilities. This means that it would do what a human can do, but also go through the same reasoning and thought processes to make this decision. Strong AI has not yet been fully discovered, as there are still differences in the answers given by an AI or a human during a Turing Test.

Everything in between on the spectrum is technology that is informed by human reasoning. This means that the technology collects information and builds up evidence, and using human reasoning as a guide, it is able to come to a conclusion. From IBM Watson to Google’s work in Deep Learning, as well as Siri in Apple Products and Facebook’s friend recommendations, these technologies are all able to recognize patterns (to a degree), add up the evidence and come to a desired conclusion.

Said to impact society at an exponential rate, Artificial Intelligence is researchers around the world are studying. However, the more scientists study, the more questions arise. What we know for sure is that step by step, Artificial Intelligence is being incorporated into our daily lives for our benefit and to make life more comfortable.   

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence

Hello fellow AI bloggers! I’m Catherine and I will be researching “What is Artificial Intelligence?” Living in an era that largely relies on technology, Artificial Intelligence is a hot topic that is being explored in both the informatics and technology sectors. The following are some links that give a brief introduction to Artificial Intelligence.

The general definition for Artificial Intelligence is:
The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages

The following two links briefly answer “What is Artificial Intelligence?” I found the examples given in these videos were very useful in grasping the general sense of what AI really is.
What is Artificial Intelligence?
Artificial Intelligence

Another important section of Artificial Intelligence is the Turing Test.
The general definition for Turing Test is:
A test for intelligence in a computer, requiring that a human being should be unable to distinguish the machine from another human being by using the replies to questions put to both

The following link explains the Turing Test. The Turing Test is one of the most widely used techniques to determine Artificial Intelligence.
Turing Test 

Looking forward to my collaboration with all of you! :)

Students from India

Here is the pic of students from India who will b working for project.

Starting from left SaiRama,Lohitaksh,Aditya ,Shivansh,Shivam ,Kushal.
There are 4 more members but due to their absentism we will share their picks later.

The group in Toronto

Here is a picture of all those who showed up at lunch today.  We are hoping more people will join as we go on.

From Left to right this is :
Catherine, Samantha, Demetra, Mrs. Bhalla,  Nicole, Sasha, Matthew

Welcome All

Welcome to the Blog 'Artificial Intelligence'