ROBOT COGNITION REQUIRES MACHINES THAT BOTH THINK AND FEEL
In the quest to create intelligent robots, designers tend to focus on purely rational, cognitive capacities. It’s tempting to disregard emotion entirely, or include only as much as necessary. But without emotion to help determine the personal significance of objects and actions, I doubt that true intelligence can exist – not the kind that beats human opponents at chess or the game of Go, but the sort of smarts that we humans recognise as such.
Read moreSAMSUNG SECURITIES’ $105 BILLION FAT-FINGER SHARE ERROR TRIGGERS URGENT REGULATOR INQUIRY
Last week, an employee of Samsung Securities Co., Samsung Group’s stock-trading entity and one of the largest trading companies in South Korea, accidentally issued shares worth some $105 billion to 2,018 of its employees who are members of its stock-owner program. The employees in the program were supposed to receive a dividend totaling 2 billion won (or about $0.93 per share they owned), but were mistakenly issued 2 billion shares instead.
Read moreTODAY’S OCEANS AND A 94M-YEAR-OLD CATASTROPHE
The ocean is losing its oxygen. Last week, in a sweeping analysis in the journal Science, scientists put it starkly: Over the past 50 years, the volume of the ocean with no oxygen at all has quadrupled, while oxygen-deprived swaths of the open seas have expanded by the size of the European Union. The culprits are familiar: global warming and pollution. Warmer seawater both holds less oxygen and turbocharges the worldwide consumption of oxygen by microorganisms.
Read moreGOOGLE WORKS OUT A FASCINATING, SLIGHTLY SCARY WAY FOR AI TO ISOLATE VOICES IN A CROWD
Google researchers have developed a deep-learning system designed to help computers better identify and isolate individual voices within a noisy environment. Source: arstechnica.com
THE MAGIC LEAP ONE EXPERIENCE
I have modeled the ML1 as closely as possible with respect to the view through it based on the available evidence. I’m providing the model I used so others can verify or challenge my results and cut through the debates about whether it will look different based on how the human visual system works, which is, of course, different than a camera. Source: kguttag.com
15 TYPES OF REGRESSION YOU SHOULD KNOW
Regression techniques are one of the most popular statistical techniques used for predictive modeling and data mining tasks. On average, analytics professionals know only 2-3 types of regression which are commonly used in real world. They are linear and logistic regression. But the fact is there are more than 10 types of regression algorithms designed for various types of analysis. Each type has its own significance. Every analyst must know which form of regression to use depending on type of data and distribution.
Read moreA PHYSICAL CONSTANT’S VALUE SHOULDN’T DEPEND ON HOW YOU MEASURE IT
Measurements in physics are funny things. You’d hope that attempts to quantify some of the fundamental properties of the Universe would follow a simple pattern: they’d start with large error bars, but, over time, measuring technology improves and the error bars shrink. Ideally, the value would then remain nicely within the previous error. Source: arstechnica.com
NOBODY KNOWS HOW THIS PART OF MARS EXPLODED
On the scarred terrain of Arabia Terra, a region on Mars that serves as the setting for The Martian, lies a mysterious pockmark known as Ismenia Patera. New imagery released by the European Space Agency (ESA) on Thursday reveals dimensions of this feature that help contextualize its geological evolution (though its origins remain unresolved). Source: vice.com
THE ART OF SOLDERING
The story of solder, the unsung hero of the digital revolution that benefits from a low melting point. It’s what keeps the circuits attached to the silicon. Source: vice.com
SOMEONE HAS ENTERED AN AI IN A JAPANESE MAYORAL RACE
With the upcoming mayoral elections for various regions of Tokyo just around the corner, there’s one particular AI candidate that’s caught our eye. Source: otaquest.com