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Robotics: Evolving Robots to be able to Improvise in the Real World

By Dick Weisinger

Robots nowadays can be trained to do seemingly anything.  But making general-purpose robots that can interact under many different scenarios and environments are a long ways off.  Robots today aren’t able to easily reuse in a different environment what they…

Artificial Intelligence: Step-wise Advances Enable Machine Learning to Evolve

By Dick Weisinger

AI that can be used to self-build more complex and more accurate AI is beginning to happen.  Google’s NASNet researchers say that they have developed AI that can do just that.  The computer-generated AI system is called NASNet, and it…

Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence: Algorithms Will Change How Health Care is Delivered

By Dick Weisinger

Machines are beginning to outperform humans at highly-specific tasks that often take humans years to master.  A Deep Learning algorithm at Stanford, for example, recently was trained to be able to detect pneumonia from x-rays of patients, and the accuracy…

Artificial Intelligence and Finance: FSB Warns that use of High-Speed Machine Trading Comes with Risk

By Dick Weisinger

The Financial Stability Board recently warned that a race among financial businesses to adopt AI may end up in a bad way. While AI has the potential for these businesses to cut their costs and also to allow them to…

Artificial Intelligence Databases: Speeding Training for Machine and Deep Learning

By Dick Weisinger

One of Artificial Intelligence’s biggest roadblocks is data preparation and training.  Collecting and cleaning data and then training software on data to recognize patterns and develop some amount of insight takes a lot of time. New techniques to speed up…