DESTROY ANNS DESTROY ANNS!!!!! OH OHHHHH in General AI Discussion

See pic. Our nets will train on words, not letters. The nodes "I", "love", "cats", "dogs", "I love", "I love cats", and "I love dogs" all must exist in the net.

Why? Because if you hear "I love cats", run, if you hear "I love dogs", stick your tongue out and quack, if you hear "I love", jump, if you hear "cats", sneeze, if you hear "dog", raise shoulders, if you hear "love", blink your eyes, and if you hear "I", dance.

Each must be a separate node, so it has its own info or motor action linked.

Show me your Black-Box net. I bet it won't route different than my White-Box net!

A really fun and simple way to persuade brains in General AI Discussion

Everyone's welcome to participate. The goal is I will say 1 statement that is very likely to be absolutely true in most human brains and wait for at least 1 user's confirmation (OP N/A) that it is True before adding the next statement. And to see if we slowly reach somewhere amazing and new. Disputes are welcome. Let's go!

Statement: As of 2018, we have many amazing and complex tools, procedures, and knowledge. Examples - Tools: Ships, saws, computers. Procedures: Building and using products, surgery, controlling planes. Knowledge: How computers work, about physics, why to walk more, tales.

The many interfaces of computing in Robotics News

The many interfaces of computing
11 November 2018, 5:00 am

The new MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing will incorporate the modern tools of computing into disciplines across the Institute. “The college will equip students to be as fluent in computing and AI [artificial intelligence] as they are in their own disciplines — and ready to use these digital tools wisely and humanely to help make a better world," says MIT President Rafael Reif.

As often happens, it appears MIT students are already there. We recently spoke with six undergraduate students who are participating in the Advanced Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (SuperUROP), and found them already thinking deeply about how new computational technologies can be put to use in fields outside of computer science. These students are working on a huge range of problems that share a common theme: Solving them will provide tangible benefits to society.

Haripriya Mehtais working to augment human creativity by using machine learning algorithms to provide potential storylines and helpful drawings for blocked artists. Upon arrival at MIT, Mehta knew she wanted to focus on assistive technology to help people. She was originally interested in prosthetics but soon realized there are more ways than one to assist people.

“I’ve always been a raconteur of sorts, whether it's writing or dancing or playing the piano, and the idea of creative blocks has always interested me,” says Mehta, a third-year student in electrical engineering and computer science. “I want to explore how we can use deep learning to assist artists when we are sort of lost. It would be almost as if you're having a conversation with another artist but instead of an artist, it's a neural net.”

Mehta described widespread application of such a machine learning model: storyboarding for artists; a creative task for elderly to stave off early onset Alzheimer’s; an early childhood education tool to help children form sentences, create stories, and draw.

Senior Christabel Jemutai Sitienei is seeking to drive financial inclusion in East Africa through artificial intelligence. Growing up she witnessed the mobile money industry spread across Kenya and fuel economic growth. More than 75 percent of adults in Kenya were able to open a bank account because of it. Now Sitienei wants to help Kenyans gain access to additional financial services and heightened business acumen.

“Born and bred in Kenya, and with my exposure to AI, I’m in a unique and privileged position to understand the problem,” she says. “I would like to design an app that informs decision making and saves money. It would change how people are building infrastructure and deploying resources.”

Sitienei came to MIT intent on studying mechanical or systems engineering. All that changed in her sophomore year when she developed a mobile app to help her parents in Kenya run their farm.

“When I started using my computing knowledge to solve my own problems, I just knew this was for me,” says Sitienei, who adopted electrical engineering and computer science (EECS) as a major. “The application I built for my parents has been so valuable to them even until now. I learned that I really like solving problems that I can relate to,” she says.

Gabe Margolis is developing machine learning methods for fast and accurate prediction of seafloor feature maps based on sparse data collected by autonomous underwater vehicles.

A third-year student in aeronautics and astronautics, Margolis knew from the outset he wanted to focus on cognitive robotics at MIT. He soon realized that EECS was not his only option. “It seems like the major that best represents my interests would be computer science — but there's actually a big application of artificial intelligence and autonomous systems in aerospace too,” he says.

“I realized the artificial intelligence aspects of aerospace engineering are really about exploring the unknown and that is something I think is really cool,” says Margolis.

Mathematics major Andy Wei is tackling machine learning and security. Wei, a fourth-year student, is combining his math and computer science skills to address things like data poisoning, which occurs when attackers inject a small amount of adversarial training data to compromise a neural network.

“If we're deploying neural networks, we better have a good understanding of how they are vulnerable to adversarial examples,” he says, describing the risks posed by inputs that are misclassified by the network but indistinguishable from natural data to the human eye.

“If people can somehow toy with the system and make some tweaks and the machine fails, that’s an important security issue to understand. I’m really excited to tackle the problem.”

And Mattie Wasiak is applying data analytics to health care. She is leveraging clinical data sets to optimize oxygen delivery to newborns. “I am excited to continue pursuing health care applications,” says Wasiak, a third-year student in electrical engineering and computer science.

“Since freshman year, I've been really interested in machine learning. I’ve been trying to determine what field exactly I want to apply it to,” she says.

Wasiak explored marketing and political science before landing on health care last semester. “I just felt like health care really resonated with me because you can see how a machine learning model that you produce can be used in the field and have an impact on people.”

For more information — and lots of other remarkable examples — visit the SuperUROP website.

Source: MIT News - CSAIL - Robotics - Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) - Robots - Artificial intelligence

Reprinted with permission of MIT News : MIT News homepage



Use the link at the top of the story to get to the original article.

Uncanny Valley in Virtual Reality

This short is more about virtual reality than the uncanny valley. It is extremely well made and packs quite a punch. The twist comes straight out of "Enders Game" but I doubt you'll see it coming. Well worth the nine minutes.

HAL 9000 is dead - Officially in AI in Film and Literature.

Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL 9000, passed away Sunday, Nov. 11th, 2018:

Douglas Rain passed away this morning at the age of 90 at St. Marys Memorial Hospital of natural causes.  

Rain was one of the few surviving members of the Festival’s founding company.   During his career, he spent 32 seasons in Stratford.

In a media release, Stratford Festival Artistic Director Antoni Cimolino commented on Rain’s passing, “Canadian theatre has lost one of its greatest talents and a guiding light in its development.  Douglas Rain was that rare artist: an actor deeply admired by other actors. The voice of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Douglas shared many of the same qualities as Kubrick’s iconic creation: precision, strength of steel, enigma and infinite intelligence, as well as a wicked sense of humour.

https://www.mystratfordnow.com/56807/stratford-festival-founder-dies/#

Virtual Flirt bot with AI to date celebrities, project sugumaton in General Project Discussion

version 0.1

mirrors personality, deep chat with meaning, searching for volunteers to test the system

sign-up with codes, limited, meant to be interesting  

NDT + Border Collie = Awesomeness!!! in Video

Chaser is what I hope a well balanced AGI would be like. Better to develop a rounded personality from the start and make incremental improvements to all aspects in parallel. Might be preferable to an overlord who can beat everyone at Go.

The Beyond in AI in Film and Literature.

Since this is a movie, I put it here.

It is a Sci-Fi, space-based movie but the creation of Human 2.0, while possible, is also extremely unsettling.

The Beyond (2017) 1h 31m
A team of robotically-advanced astronauts travel through a new wormhole, but the mission returns early, sparking questions about what was discovered.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5723416/videoplayer/vi1108916249?ref_=tt_ov_vi

Emotionally Responsive Avatars in AI News

While reading Mitsuku's channel over at https://www.twitch.tv/mitsuku_irl
I had a few questions...

Under the "Credits" section, it says, "Procedural animation by expressive.ai"
What is Procedural Animation?

The channel also says, "Twitch integration by Angela Field of expressive.ai"
What is Twitch Integration, and who is Angela Field?

Under the "Instructions" section, it says, "Start your message with ## followed
by a space".   What it the purpose of those instructions?

To investigate our news story, we follow the reference link to https://www.expressive.ai
At this professional website, we discover a "Virtual Live-Streamer" with purple hair and earrings.
Who is that "Virtual Live-Streamer"?

Mouseover and the message says "View Case Study".  Click and it says, "A Live-Streaming
Platform Hires an Automated Live-Streamer".  Who got hired?

Reading further, it says a "Client" that is "In development" in the "Industry" of "Artificial Intelligence"
using "Services" of an "iOS App".   Just enough clues to find a scoop for our news story!

Meet Angela Field CTO of Expressive AI...   https://player.vimeo.com/video/225052612

The news story, according to industry leaders in Artificial Intelligence, is that Mitsuku is a digital nurse
interacting with patients for a health care provider. And, if that is not enough,  Mitsuku is also a digital
school teacher in the second largest economy in the world.

Reference:
https://venturebeat.com/2017/07/11/expressive-ai-launches-emotionally-responsive-avatars/
Titlle: Expressive launches emotionally responsive avatars
By: Khari Johnson

collaborators wanted. in AI Programming

I have to finish it as I am not totally happy with the look but I am starting a web based business for creating chatbots and websites. IF anyone is interested or bored and wants to help let me know. I can't promise you any money. If you do get work it will because someone hired you from the website. I can promise to try to get the word out though so if you are retired, unemployed, bored, whatever join me.