AI and Communication

• Will Siri Ever Outsmart Us? "Decrypted" audio podcast (30 min.) by Bloomberg posted on Soundcloud.

AI News

• Google, Facebook, and Microsoft Are Remaking Themselves Around AI by Cade Metz for Wired Magazine (Nov. 21, 2016). FEI-FEI LI IS a big deal in the world of AI. As the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision labs at Stanford University, she oversaw the creation of ImageNet, a vast database of images designed to accelerate the development of AI that can “see.” And, well, it worked, helping to drive the creation of deep learning systems that can recognize objects, animals, people, and even entire scenes in photos—technology that has become commonplace on the world’s biggest photo-sharing sites. Now, Fei-Fei will help run a brand new AI group inside Google, a move that reflects just how aggressively the world’s biggest tech companies are remaking themselves around this breed of artificial intelligence...

Companies Developing AI

• ABC Inc. / Google
• Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
• Apple
• Intel
• Microsoft
• Nvidia

AI and Health & Wellness

• Physical Health & Wellness
  • ‘My God, it’s better’: Emma can write again thanks to a prototype watch, raising hope for Parkinson’s disease by Bill Briggs for Microsoft (10 May, 2017). Use of AI to help people with Parkinson's disease.

Elements of AI

• Machine Learning

The Singularity

• The Singularity, Virtual Immortality and the Trouble with Consciousness (Op-Ed) By Robert Lawrence Kuhn for LiveScience.com (October 16, 2015) Addresses questions such as whether the singularity would have consciousness and whether our minds can be transferred into a computer for immortal consciousness.
  • Some of these concepts relate to episodes of Black Mirror, a series available on Netflix.