Artificial Intelligence
The Technology Behind Travel Bots
Today, chatbots are helping us with many tasks that used to require human input. Many of us have experienced the use of automated answering services when calling support at a large company. Even more recently, tech companies such as Facebook and Slack have been using chatbots to answer many of the most common questions their […]
Down the Rabbit Hole: The Origins of Artificial Intelligence
The term “artificial intelligence” is being thrown around a lot lately. But what is artificial intelligence, really? With A.I.’s like Siri, Cortana, and more, the world is approaching what is known as The Singularity, the era of the machine. Though these A.I. are nothing like James Cameron’s Skynet in the 1984 sci-fi smash hit The […]
Dusk or Dawn? The impact of A.I. on the human workforce
In California, a Stanford student creates a robot that answers legal questions, and in China, a TV channel starts featuring a robot that delivers the daily weather forecast live on camera. What seem like fun experiments at first will most likely have a profound impact on what our workforce of the future will look like. […]
AI in Review: Amazon Machine Learning Service
Self-driving cars, web search, retail recommendations. Evolving technological advancements in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning affect our daily lives in many ways. Machine learning is an evolutionary step forward in computer science, with roots in pattern recognition and computational learning theory. In essence, it examines how computers act without being directly programmed. […]
Intelligent Transportation Systems
In our everyday lives as we commute to and from various places, we often overlook the staggering complexity of integrated transportation systems in our cities. We take for granted the technology and thought processes that go into designing, developing, and implementing the transportation systems we use. Because we often take these things for granted, it […]
Hallucinations courtesy of Google
Do machines really dream? Have you heard about Google’s machines that dream? In 2014, a team of researchers at Google stumbled into an extraordinary outcome of their project that has since taken the internet by storm. The world is calling it ‘DeepDream’. With an artificial neural network, DeepDream was built for pattern and image recognition. […]