*Using Automated Untelligence to fight Artificial Intelligence.

Ignorance Is Futile: The genius behind the Google machine is that when we use the Internet we help make it’s A.I. smarter and more powerful, and on the other hand the growing trend is to make the entire Internet “semantic“. By merely using the Internet, we’re all in effect helping to build ‘Skynet’, so something [...]

Hedge funds using artificial intelligence to beat the human competition.

Wall Street Journal: Wall Street is notorious for not learning from its mistakes. Maybe machines can do better. That is the hope of an increasing number of investors who are turning to the science of artificial intelligence to make investment decisions. With artificial intelligence, programmers don’t just set up computers to make decisions in response [...]

*Apple buys DARPA’s Skynet precursor “Siri”. Where’s our tax refund?

Ignorance Is Futile: Just one of DARPA’s many AI programs cost taxpayers $150M. Now basically considered a success, SRI who built “Siri” has now sold it to Apple for up to $250M. In effect, we’ve all paid $1 to help build a Skynet prototype. Since I don’t agree with this type of research, for many [...]

*Give your Business Trade Secrets to your Google Android phone.

Ignorance Is Futile: It wasn’t until I saw my employer pull out a new Android phone recently did I realized the next level in privacy matters: business trade secrets. You’d be hard pressed to find a much stauncher critic of cute & cuddly Google than yours truly, yet somehow I hadn’t pondered this realm. Of [...]

-Forbes covers Artificial Intelligence.

Forbes: You’ve heard of Smart Cars. Believe us, they get smarter. No, we’re not talking about Kit, the wryly soft-spoken roadster from the ’80s TV show Knight Rider. Fully sentient robots like Kit are still a ways off, but computer programmers are starting to make serious progress in the horrendously complex art of artificial intelligence. [...]