Voices in AI – Episode 92: A Conversation with Chris Duffery

Voices in AI – Episode 92: A Conversation with Chris Duffery

By Jill T Frey
ai / Artificial Intelligence / Blog / Creative Intelligence / creativity / general AI / narrow AI / Transfromation

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Episode 92 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with Chris Duffey about the nature of creativity and how machine intelligence can interact with creative concepts.

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Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm and I’m Byron Reese. Today my guest is Chris Duffey. He spearheads Adobe’s Creative Cloud strategic development partnerships across the creative enterprise space. His keynotes have received over 50 million impressions. His work has been featured in a hundred or more global media outlets including The Wall Street Journal, Inc, Adweek and on and on and on. He’s also the author of Superhuman Innovation: Transforming Businesses with Artificial Intelligence. Welcome to the show, Chris.

Chris Duffey: Thanks for having me. Great to be here.

I’d like to start off with: what is intelligence? … Read the rest

Facebook AI Pluribus defeats top poker professionals in 6-player Texas Hold ’em

Facebook AI Pluribus defeats top poker professionals in 6-player Texas Hold ’em

By Jill T Frey
ai / Facebook AI / Facebook Research / gaming / Gaming & Culture / Pluribus / poker / Science / Texas Hold 'Em

This video shows sample hands from Pluribus’ experiment against professional poker players. Cards are turned face up to make it easier to see Pluribus’ strategy. Courtesy of Carnegie-Mellon University.

Poker-playing AIs typically perform well against human opponents when the play is limited to just two players. Now Carnegie Mellon University and Facebook AI research scientists have raised the bar even further with an AI dubbed Pluribus, which took on 15 professional human players in six-player no-limit Texas Hold ’em and won. The researchers describe how they achieved this feat in a new paper in Science.

Playing more than 5,000 hands each time, five copies of the AI took on two top professional players: Chris “Jesus” Ferguson, six-time winner of World Series of Poker events, and Darren Elias, who currently holds the record for most World Poker Tour titles. Pluribus defeated them both. It did the same in a second experiment,

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Steam uses machine learning for its new game recommendation engine

Steam uses machine learning for its new game recommendation engine

By Jill T Frey
@raiseyouriq / ai / Gaming & Culture / Machine learning / recommendations / Steam / Valve

Enlarge / The new recommendation engine is part of a new experimental Steam Labs branding.

For years now, Valve has been testing new approaches to filter the glut of Steam games down to the ones in which individual users are most likely to show an interest. To that end, the company is today rolling out a machine-learning-powered “Interactive Recommender” trained on “billions of play sessions” from the Steam user base.

In the past, Steam has relied largely on crowd-sourced metadata like user-provided tags, user-curated lists, aggregate review scores, and sales data to drive its recommendation algorithms. But the new Interactive Recommender is different, Valve says, because it works without any initial internal or external information about the games themselves (save for the release date). “Instead, the model learns about the games for itself during the training process,” Valve says. “The model infers properties of games by learning what users

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Voices in AI – Episode 91: A Conversation with Mazin Gilbert

By Jill T Frey
ai / Artificial Intelligence / Blog / Data / Data-Driven / general intelligence / Machine learning

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Episode 91 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with Mazin Gilbert from AT&T Labs about the nature of intelligence and why we have so much trouble defining it.

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Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by Gigaom. I’m Byron Reese. Today my guest is Mazin Gilbert. He’s a VP of AT&T Labs and their advanced technologies. He holds a PhD in electrical engineering from Liverpool John Moores University, and if that weren’t enough, an MBA from Wharton as well. Welcome to the show, Mazin. 

Mazin Gilbert: Thank you for the invitation, Byron.

I always just like to kind of start out talking about what intelligence is and maybe little different [question], like, why do we have such a hard time defining what intelligence is? Yeah, that’s where I’ll start.… Read the rest

Author pulls software that used deep learning to virtually undress women

Author pulls software that used deep learning to virtually undress women

By Jill T Frey
ai / danielle citron / deepfakes / DeepNude / Policy / revenge porn

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On Wednesday, a Vice article alerted the world to the creation of DeepNude, a computer program that uses neural networks to transform an image of a clothed woman into a realistic rendering of what she might look like naked.

The software attracted widespread condemnation. This is an “invasion of sexual privacy,” legal scholar Danielle Citron told Vice.

The software’s anonymous creator explained how it worked to Vice’s Samantha Cole:

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Norman Sadeh

Voices in AI – Episode 90: A Conversation with

By Jill T Frey
ai / Artificial Intelligence / Blog / GDPR / GPDR / intelligence / permissions / privacy / Security and Risk / Teaching Computers

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Episode 90 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with Norman Sadeh from Carnegie Mellon University about the nature of intelligence and how AI effects our privacy.

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Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm I’m Byron Reese, today my guest is Norman Sadeh. He is a professor at Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science. He’s affiliated with Cylab which is well known for their seminal work in AI planning and scheduling, and he is an authority on computer privacy. Welcome to the show.

Carnegie Mellon has this amazing reputation in the AI world. It’s arguably second to none. There are a few university campuses that seem to really… there’s Toronto and MIT, and in Carnegie Mellon’s case, how did AI become such a central focus?

Norman Sadeh: Well, … Read the rest

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Why Many Businesses Are Not Ready For AI

By Jill T Frey
ai / Artificial Intelligence / Blog

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By now, the story is well told on how artificial intelligence is changing businesses, all the way down to impacting core business models. In 2017, Amazon bought Whole Foods then later opened their Amazon Go automated store. Since then, they’ve been using AI to understand and improve the physical retail shopping experience. In 2018, Keller Williams announced a pivot towards becoming an artificial intelligence-driven technology company to compete with the tech-centric entrants into the market like Zillow and Redfin.

These companies are not alone. According to a study by MIT Sloan Management Review, one trillion dollars of new profit will be created from the use of artificial intelligence technologies by 2030. That is roughly 10% of all total profits projected for that time. Still, most companies have yet to implement artificial intelligence in their business. Depending on what study you ready, 70%-80% of all businesses have yet … Read the rest

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Voices in AI – Episode 89: A Conversation with Doug Lenat

By Jill T Frey
ai / AM / Artificial Intelligence / Asimov / Blog / Eurisko / International AI Race / literature / Machine learning

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Episode 89 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with Cycorp CEO Douglas Lenat on developing AI and the very nature of intelligence.

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Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm, and I’m Byron Reese. I couldn’t be more excited today. My guest is Douglas Lenat. He is the CEO of Cycorp of Austin, Texas where GigaOm is based, and he’s been a prominent researcher in AI for a long time. He’s been awarded the biannual IJCAI computer and thought award in 1976. He created the machine learning program AM. He worked on (symbolic, not statistical) machine learning with his AM and Eurisko programs, knowledge representation, cognitive economy, blackboard systems and what he dubbed in 1984 as “ontological engineering.”

He’s worked in military simulations, numerous projects for the government … Read the rest

Quake III Arena is the latest game to see AI top humans

Quake III Arena is the latest game to see AI top humans

By Jill T Frey
ai / Computer science / Deep Mind / gaming / quake III / Science

Enlarge / Representation of some of the behaviors developed by the FTW algorithm. (credit: Deep Mind)

Google’s AI subsidiary Deep Mind has built its reputation by building systems that learn to play games by playing each other, starting with little more than the rules and what constitutes a win. That Darwinian approach of improvement through competition has allowed Deep Mind to tackle complex games like chess and Go, where there are vast numbers of potential moves to consider.

But at least for board games like those, the potential moves are discrete and don’t require real-time decisionmaking. It wasn’t unreasonable to question whether the same approach would work for completely different classes of games. Such questions, however, seem to be answered by a report in today’s issue of Science, where Deep Mind reveals the development of an AI system that has taught itself to play Quake III Arena and can consistently

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Voices in AI – Episode 88: A Conversation with Ron Green

By Jill T Frey
ai / Blog / Business Intelligence / Data / kungu.ai / Machine learning / OCR

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Episode 88 of Voices in AI features Byron speaking with Ron Green of KUNGFU.AI about how companies integrate AI and machine learning into their business models.

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Byron Reese: This is Voices in AI brought to you by GigaOm and I’m Byron Reese. Today my guest is Ron Green. Ron is the CTO over at KUNGFU.AI. He holds a BA in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin, and he holds a Master of Science from the University of Sussex in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems. His company, KUNGFU.AI is a professional services company that helps companies start and accelerate artificial intelligence projects. I asked him [to be] on the show today because I wanted to do an episode that was a little more ‘hands-on’ about how an enterprise today can apply this … Read the rest