Amazing Technologies From the Year….2015
What happened in 2015 as far as technology is concerned?
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Siri
Communication Studies and Artificial Intelligence
Communication studies, it will be argued, must come to terms with this development and reorient its theoretical framework so as to be able to accommodate and respond to situations where the other in communicative exchange is no longer exclusively human.
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Video Friday: The Winograd Schema Challenge — In Conversation with Dr. Charlie Ortiz of Nuance Communications
I recently visited Nuance and talked with Dr. Charlie Ortiz about the Winograd Schema Challenge.
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Predictions of Futures Past — Intelligent Agents
Here's a prediction I made about "intelligent agent" technology in 1993. How close did I get to our present reality?
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Intelligent Personal assistants and the Dawn of AGI
When speculating on emerging technologies its wise to keep your eye on certain things. Technologies or labs that could eventually become these new creations.
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Elon Musk is More Dangerous than AI
I was enjoying a quiet weekend when my news feed started to pop up with stories such as Elon Musk warns us that human-level AI is ‘potentially more dangerous than nukes’ etc. Wow!
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In Conversation: Ron Kaplan of Nuance Communications
I recently got together with Ron Kaplan who is a well known artificial intelligence researcher in the area of natural language processing. The conversation ranges near and far covering AI risks and the recent news about a chatbot passing the Turing Test, whether it is ridiculous to suggest that Siri is a conscious being, reflective computing, NL interfaces and access to knowledge, communicating wi...
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