What is artificial intelligence?
What is artifical intelligence? And great answers to most of what we talked about, by a proper computer guy from Stanford University (Formal Reasoning Group)What is Skynet? (Wikia)What is computer chess? (Wikipedia)Google computer wins final game against South Korean Go master (Physics.org)Google has gotten very good at predicting traffic (Tech Insider)When will AI be created? (Machine Intelligence Research Institute)What is intelligence? (Machine Intelligence Research Institute)What is consciousness? (big think)What it will take for computers to be conscious (MIT Technology Review)Learning how little we know about the brain (The New York Times)Google traffic (Google)What is artifical consciousness? (Wikipedia)Kegan's 'orders of mind' (NZCR)Kegan's theory of the evolution of consciousness (Stanford University)Consciousness may be an 'emergent property' of the brain (Quora)A good discussion between Sam Harris and Neil deGrasse Tyson (Sam Harris' podcast)There are billions of connections in your brain (The Astronomist)The 'Go' game (Wikipedia)The number of possible Go games is reeeeally large...potentially more than the number of atoms in the universe (Sensei's Library)A comparison of chess & Go (British Go Association)Go & maths...the number of positions is scary (Wikipedia)There are also a lot of chess moves (Chess.com)What is a brute force attack? (Technopedia)How many moves ahead can hard core chess players see? (Quora)Deep learning in a nutshell – what it is, how it works, why care? (KDnuggets)Deep learning with massive amounts of computational power, machines can now recognize objects & translate speech in real time (MIT Technology Review)Google's 'DeepMind' deep learning start up (techworld)The Google Brain project (Wired)The Go computer was trained with 160,000 real-life games (Scientific American)Evolutionary computation & AI (Wikipedia)Genetic programming & AI (Wikipedia)So what's a robot then? (Galileo Educational Network)Professor reveals to students that his assistant was an AI all along (SMH)Hate Siri? Meet Viv - the future of chatbots and artificial intelligence (SMH)What is the connection between AI & robotics (wiseGEEK)Robotic limbs that plug into the brain (MIT Technology review)The Roomba vacuum robot (iRobot)The 'Robot or Not' podcast (The Incomparable)Expert predictions on when we'll see conscious machines: When will the machines wake up? (TechCrunch)Google AI: What if Google became self-aware? (wattpad)Will Google create the first conscious computer? (Daily Mail Australia)Google Consciousness...not affiliated with Google (Google Consciousness)Elon Musk does indeed have an AI company: Open AI (Wired)Evil genius with a fluffy cat (Regmedia)The Maltesers gift box (Mars)Will machines eventually take on every job? (BBC)When robots take all the work, what'll be left for us to do? (Wired)The travelling salesman maths problem (Wikipedia)A bunch of stuff about the travelling salesman maths problem (University of Waterloo)GPS became fully operational in 1995, but was proposed in 1973 (Wikipedia)How does GPS work? (Wikipedia)Digital diagnosis: intelligent machines do a better job than humans (The Conversation)What is Lyme disease? (Lyme Disease Association of Australia)Stuttgart (Wikipedia)Robot B-9: the robot from Lost in Space (Lost in Space Wiki)Robot B-9 in action (YouTube)Surgical robots (All About Robotic Surgery)Commercial planes are basically just big drones (Esquire)The AI in Google's self-driving cars qualifies as legal driver (Fortune)All the self-driving cars are learning from each other (The Oatmeal)Your future self-driving car will be way more hackable (MIT Technology Review)Google self-driving cars have driven more than 2 million km & have ony had 14 minor collisions (Wikipedia)Crazy animation of self-driving cars at an intersection (Co.Design)Self-driving cars could get their own lanes (wtop)Self-driving cars could lower insurance premiums (The Telegraph)Self-driving cars could lower insurance premiums (Wired)Australia's new National Broadband Network (nbnco)Tesla's cars now drive themselves, kinda (Wired)Australia's first autonomous vehicle test (Motoring)How AI is driving the next industrial revolution (InformationAge)Why bots are the next industrial revolution (Huffington Post)Humans need not apply: short video (C.G.P. Grey)Self-driving trucks are on the way (Basic Income)In the 2015 census there were 94,975 articulated trucks registered in Australia (Australian Bureau of Statistics)Driverless trucks move all iron ore at Rio Tinto's Pilbara mines, in world first (ABC Australia)Rio Tinto pushes ahead with driverless trains in Pilbara (SMH)Can Star Trek's world with no money work? (CNN Money)The economics of Star Trek (Medium)Jeff Bezos from Amazon (Wikipedia)Yes, the robots will steal our jobs. And that’s fine (The Washington Post)I fear 'low-cost country sourcing' more than robots taking my job (Wikipedia)Flight prices are calculated by robots doing maths (Mathematical Association of America)Are airline passengers getting ripped off by robots? (Fortune)Is it true that once you search for a flight the algorithm will remember & put the price up? (Quora)Mac users may see pricier options (ABC America)Naked WinesSir James Dyson (Encyclopaedia Britannica)Cheeky review? (If we may be so bold)
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