Introduction

• Artificial Intelligence and Life In 2030
• IBM Made a 'Crash Course' For The White House, And It'll Teach You All The AI Basics

Organizations worth following

• Google DeepMind
• Google Assistant, Google Home and Google Now
• OpenAI
• Elon Musk's OpenAI is using Reddit to teach AI to speak — Quartz
• Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research
• Amazon Echo
• Jeff Bezos talking about Amazon Echo in 2000!
• IBM Watson

The above list is quite biased towards teams working on agents that can converse in natural language. It seems like chat-bots or personal assistants getting better over time is going to be how artificial intelligence will become part of everyday life.

Components of artificial intelligence

• Natural language processing : ability to understand and converse in human languages such as English, Spanish, Chinese, and so on
• Elon Musk's OpenAI is using Reddit to teach AI to speak — Quartz
• Knowledge representation and reasoning : quality of the internal representation used by the AI system to model the world, and its ability to reason using this model
• Automated planning and scheduling : using the above model to simulate consequences of various actions, and thereby picking the best actions
• Machine perception : ability to understand various forms of input, such as images, audio and video
• Robotics : ability to interact (and in particular, manipulate) the physical environment
• Affective computing : ability to interact with humans in human ways
• MIT scientists use radio waves to sense human emotions
• Story of a person using AI to speak to her friend after his death

Central problems in artificial intelligence

• Ethics : the values embodied by agents making increasingly important decisions
• Moral Machine
• Friendly artificial intelligence : addressing the possible extreme negative effects of artificial intelligence on human race
• The rise of robots: forget evil AI – the real risk is far more insidious
• How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence
• Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft come together to create historic Partnership on AI
• Economic impacts : will AI systems lead to large-scale displacement of jobs? If yes, is there a path to providing continued improvements in quality of life equitably as this happens?
• Brain–computer interface : or more generally, a high-bandwidth communication mechanism between human beings and machines
• Elon Musk is “Making Progress” on a Neural Lace Brain Hack

Applications

• Health and medicine
• Watson correctly diagnoses woman after doctors were stumped
• Combat and military
• DARPA applying Artificial Intelligence for realtime cognitive electronic warfare