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Peter Stone Leads the Way at the University of Texas

FRANKLY, IT DOESN’T look like much. Eight robots you might have once found on Toys ‘R’ Us shelves occupy a small field. They collectively move with the grace of a toddler, just at the pace of someone much, much older. (If one bot goes down, it might be a…

The Future’s So Bright: AI In the Classroom

AFTER SPENDING A full day working with students one-on-one, most teachers have to grade tests and prepare lesson plans at home on nights and weekends. Is it any surprise that the 2018 Teaching and Learning International Survey by the National Center for Education Statistics found that educators in the…

How Artist João Beira Uses AI to Create Masterpieces

“I think that our generation still differentiates the physical world and the digital world,” says artist João Beira. “I think that the next generations will stop doing that.” If that’s the case, it won’t solely be because of new technologies and the scientists and engineers who create them, but…

The Hitmakers: AI in Hollywood to Determine Next Big Movie

StoryFit and Slated are using data and technology to help producers determine what movies will be a big hit at the box office. Let’s dive in to find out more about how AI in Hollywood is making a big difference in the movie scene. “NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING.” Those three…

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…

2020 Vision: Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity

IN MANY WAYS, cybersecurity has never been more mainstream. Acronyms like “2FA” no longer befuddle people, and even the least tech savvy among us now regularly leverage techniques like biometric authentication. In the public limelight, the subject of artificial intelligence and cybersecurity has come up again and again. Governments…

Global HITSS and La Revolución Digital

Midway up an office tower in Plaza Carso—the sprawling retail, office, and residential space in Mexico City—Oscar Márquez is planning how to usher the Slim family empire (and, if possible, much of Latin America) safely through the Fourth Industrial Revolution. Márquez is chief technology officer for Global HITSS, a…

Product Management 2.0: Lessons from Google in Building AI Products in the Software 2.0 World

In November 2017, the Director of Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Tesla wrote a post on Medium stating that neural networks “represent the beginning of a fundamental shift in how we write software.” Rather than coding rules line by line for each module, neural networks are trained on labeled data…

The Future of Protein: Crickets and Microlivestock

The first time Mohammed Ashour ate a cricket was on live TV. He was on air that morning in 2013 to represent his company, Aspire Food Group, whose model for farming bugs — or euphemistically, “microlivestock” — had landed in the finals for a million dollar social entrepreneurship prize.…

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,…