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Marla Rosner

Gotta Model ‘Em All? Teaching AI to Be a Pokémon® Master

Fans of the long-running Pokémon® game series know that the in-game Pokémon battles are optimized to be a thrilling challenge… for seven-year-olds. Climbing your way through the Pokémon League to be the very best, like no one ever was, is advertised as a test of strategy, skill, and your…

Turing Talk: An Interview with Virtual Assistant Alexa

We have a few questions for the world’s chatbots, virtual assistants, and other artificial users of natural language. Specifically, we have the questionnaire created by French TV host Bernard Pivot and popularized by James Lipton on Inside the Actors Studio. This issue’s guest is the virtual assistant Alexa, created…

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s AI

The only sounds drifting from Hagrid’s hut were the disdainful shrieks of his own furniture. Magic: It was something that Harry Potter thought was very good. Uh, what? Readers who spend considerable time on nerdier corners of the internet probably already know what’s going on. To everyone else: No,…

Tech Explainer: The New Face of Cyberthreats

CYBERCRIME IS A multibillion-dollar international industry. Each year sees an exponential increase in risk, as these bad actors threaten to bankrupt organizations, shut down critical infrastructure, and even conduct espionage or sabotage missions against other nations. Traditional systems of cybersecurity can’t possibly hold back the tide of cyberattacks, and…

The Democratization of Data: Modern AI and Automated Machine Learning

Recognition of emotions is one of the great white whales of modern AI. It’s innate for humans. We can look at someone’s face and understand how they’re feeling. Transferring that skill to machines has proven far trickier. Companies and academics worldwide are laboring to refine their data science techniques and produce more accurate…

New Adventures in AI: A Time Machine Recap

Questions both as grandly philosophical as the nature of self, and as nuts-and-bolts pragmatic as how automation will transform the energy industry, were considered by leading minds from across a host of industries gathered in Austin for two days last November. There, they discussed the myriad ways artificial intelligence…

Jobs, Morality and Getting a Seat: The Biggest AI Questions at SXSW

Since its inception in 1986 as a regional music festival, Austin’s South by Southwest — better known as SXSW — has ballooned into one of the country’s most celebrated events for technology, music and film. Just last year, its speakers included Christiane Amanpour, Elon Musk and Steven Spielberg. The…

Why Does This Robot Face Creep Me Out?

In a 1970 issue of a little-known Japanese magazine called Energy, roboticist Masahiro Mori first coined the term “bukimi no tani”—literally, “the uncanny valley.” He explained that objects, such as robots or toys, become more endearing as they become more human-like. However, at a certain threshold of human likeness,…

Why Hacks Still Happen: The Future of Cybersecurity

A new era of cybersecurity is dawning. AI and machine learning technologies are changing the way enterprises protect their systems and data. With hyper-intelligent machines on our side, one could easily imagine that organizations must feel invincible. Yet fears of devastating cyber attacks seem to be higher than ever,…

Top 5 Hackable Habits You Need to Break

An outdated anti-virus isn’t the only reason hacks still happen. Everyday habits leave us vulnerable in ways we might never have imagined. Here are a few tips on how to keep yourself safe from hackers. 1. KEEP YOUR BOARDING PASS PRIVATE Hackers can gather sensitive information from your boarding…