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
- Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research
- Amazon Echo
- 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
- 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
Central problems in artificial intelligence
- Ethics : the values embodied by agents making increasingly important decisions
- 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
Applications
- Health and medicine
- Combat and military