Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence demonstrated by machines, unlike the natural intelligence displayed by humans and animals, which involves consciousness and emotionality. The distinction between the former and the latter categories is often revealed by the acronym chosen. 'Strong' AI is usually labelled as artificial general intelligence (AGI) while attempts to emulate 'natural' intelligence have been called artificial biological intelligence (ABI). Leading AI textbooks define the field as the study of "intelligent agents": any device that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its chance of achieving its goals. Colloquially, the term "artificial intelligence" is often used to describe machines that mimic "cognitive" functions that humans associate with the human mind, such as "learning" and "problem solving".As machines become increasingly capable, tasks considered to require "intelligence" are often removed from the definition of AI, a phenomenon known as the AI effect. A quip in Tesler's Theorem says "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." For instance, optical character recognition is frequently excluded from things considered to be AI, having become a routine technology. Modern machine capabilities generally classified as AI include successfully understanding human speech, competing at the highest level in strategic game systems (such as chess and Go), and also imperfect-information games like poker, self-driving cars, intelligent routing in content delivery networks, and military simulations.Artificial intelligence was founded as an academic discipline in 1955, and in the years since has experienced several waves of optimism, followed by disappointment and the loss of funding (known as an "AI winter"), followed by new approaches, success and renewed funding. After AlphaGo defeated a professional Go player in 2015, artificial intelligence once again attracted widespread global attention. For most of its history, AI research has been divided into sub-fields that often fail to communicate with each other. These sub-fields are based on technical considerations, such as particular goals (e.g. "robotics" or "machine learning"), the use of particular tools ("logic" or artificial neural networks), or deep philosophical differences. Sub-fields have also been based on social factors (particular institutions or the work of particular researchers).The traditional problems (or goals) of AI research include reasoning, knowledge representation, planning, learning, natural language processing, perception and the ability to move and manipulate objects. AGI is among the field's long-term goals. Approaches include statistical methods, computational intelligence, and traditional symbolic AI. Many tools are used in AI, including versions of search and mathematical optimization, artificial neural networks, and methods based on statistics, probability and economics. The AI field draws upon computer science, information engineering, mathematics, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and many other fields.
The field was founded on the assumption that human intelligence "can be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it". This raises philosophical arguments about the mind and the ethics of creating artificial beings endowed with human-like intelligence. These issues have been explored by myth, fiction and philosophy since antiquity. Some people also consider AI to be a danger to humanity if it progresses unabated. Others believe that AI, unlike previous technological revolutions, will create a risk of mass unemployment.In the twenty-first century, AI techniques have experienced a resurgence following concurrent advances in computer power, large amounts of data, and theoretical understanding; and AI techniques have become an essential part of the technology industry, helping to solve many challenging problems in computer science, software engineering and operations research.
Here are a few excerpts from an article I stumbled across on
https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/04/13/1022568/big-tech-ai-ethics-guide/
The complete list of definitions runs about 50 items. It is sadly true to some extent, and a bit of a change-of-pace from this site.
Ever since Gigantor in (probably) 1969 I have had a quirk of always liking the AI characters in SF more than flesh and blood ones. From static units like Zen the AI who ran Liberator for Blake and his crew to robots like my avatar the B9 and beyond, like Gigolo Joe the digital escort in AI I get...
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The electronic Schrödinger equation can only be solved analytically for the hydrogen atom, and the numerically exact full configuration-interaction method is exponentially expensive in the number of electrons. Quantum Monte Carlo methods are a possible way out: they scale well for...
It does terrify me the idea of waking up with the news that some AI is able to prove theorems better than any mathematician. That would mean humans would be useless in the field of Mathematics.
I just saw that Microsoft is currently working on creating an AI that can beat humans at the...
Man oh man this sounds like a great stay-home-spectator-event. Better than a super bowl. But we'll have to wait until 2024.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/10/pentagon-2024-fight-pilot-artificial-intelligence/
First of all, the cytokine dysregulation ("storm" is such a loaded term, there are degrees - even storms have categories) involves not just bradykinin but a whole host of cytokines including IL-6 and the renin-angiotensin system. It also involves a whole lot of cells including T-cells...
Hello! Can someone point me towards some papers that use AI for gravitational wave generation? I found many papers using AI to analyze data, but not really something where AI is used to actually generate waveforms. For example this was done for particle physics simulations to increase the speed...
I am wondering will there be an AI soon. I mean AI something like a machine which can actually be almost like a human without emotions. I can learn to perform task,have a conversation with you and make decisions based on fact. It can also answer human questions.
Hey guys, I want to build a strong and straight plan for my next years of studying and once finish I am able to do something on my own and come up with crazy ideas and actually test them, build some awesome algorithms, all that cool stuff, but I'm kinda stumble so it would be nice if someone...
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I've been following Berkeley's AI course, and I'm a little stuck. In this video , at 1 hour, 11 minutes, and 55 seconds, there's a short simulation of what they claim to be a depth-2 minimax algorithm applied to the Pac-Man scenario with two dots. Pac-Man begins in the corner.
The...
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Just like the title suggests, I am looking for DIY project ideas, that involves Thermodynamics, Robotics, and Artificial Intelligent.
I would like to use C++ and Simulink.
And I am able to purchase components, e.g. Raspberry Pi and electrical components.
If you have any ideas for a...
Summary: video-> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HnMPvNpEP0 ai good - physics poor.
Ive stumbled apon an easy way to get a robot going with a gpu. I just treat it like a linear search and cap it off at the size of the gpu, and I get to brute force a good 3 steps in front.
Only problem is...
Hello! I see more and more papers that use AI for physics analysis or to find approximate solutions that would otherwise be impossible or very slow to find. What do you think is the future for AI in physics on long term. Do you think it would become a field on its own within physics? Would it...
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I'm an Indian student just graduating from high school and am about to begin studies in Memorial University of Newfoundland. I'm not sure whether to pursue a computer science degree or a computer engineering degree- I'm fascinated by AI and have learned a bit of coding myself, any...
I've built an offline chatbot AI, you basically give it a conversation and it learns from it, such as how to respond to certain questions or statements.
So far I've just been having conversations with myself and used that as training data.
Is there free training data out there similar to...
I am a 12th grader and I am having trouble choosing what I want to major in. My biggest interest is string theory/ quantum field theory/ theory of everything/ particle physics (math intensive theoretical physics). But the problems with getting a physics degree are 1) getting a phd takes a long...
I know I'm not that bright and I realize that this is a silly question to anyone in the field, but I was curious what the reward is in reinforcement learning algorithms.
I understand the concept behind reinforcement learning, though I am unsure of how you could program a reward into a program...
The other day I was intrigued by the title of a TED talk called: How AI Can Save our Humanity. But it wasn't what I expected. I expected to hear how AI can help us detect diseases, for example, but I was surprised to hear that AI can save humanity by taking our jobs, and thus let us focus on...
How much time the machine can overcome the human? I was thinking about around 50 years? But I am not sure. I would like that you guys can take me this doubt.
This Bloomberg article profiles the Lyrebird startup where AI can mimic your voice or any voice given a snippet of spoken words.
and an earlier Verge article on the technology
https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/24/15406882/ai-voice-synthesis-copy-human-speech-lyrebird
I would like to start a thread about what AI would *want to do*? I am assigning some intentionality to it and due to that I can only make one observation, that it would want to ensure its own self-preservation.
Following from that, I would like to ask, given this sub-forum, what do you think...
Hello! I learned today about neural/deep nets, convolutional nets and things related to this. I am not sure I understand why is this considered AI. The ideas behind are really beautiful, but in the end there are just better (faster) ways of taking derivatives, which anyone can do once given the...
I have been reading a fool.com report on the AI financial BOOM:
After clicking on the "No, I want to learn more." link on the bottom of the tease article and after entering your email, it will give you a video to watch on the topic and some more information by email. Do not hesitate to click...
Developments in AI and machine learning continue to progress at a rate that may be surprising and not just in playing games but in pattern recognition and image analysis in medicine, astronomy and business. One of the challenges to AI is effective natural language processing. Last week both...
Recently I read a lots of newspaper, international and none, that spoke about how dangerous can be AI.
Many journalist spoke about robots that will take the job of many workers that won't have what to do, and about how AI can reduce the job offers.
They said we will live in a world with very few...
Do you think AI will lead to the end of humanity, Earth, or help us colonise the Universe and prosper?
Will technology and robots kill us all?
I found the interest in posting this poll after reading some quotes from Stephen Hawking on the topic.
Poll.
Thank you.
Many have argued using a Godel diagonalization argument that there is no program that can tell ahead of time that the Turing Machine would halt. But would the way to get around this is to have a continuously, changing algorithm in response to learned input? I probably should say rapidly...
I have read differing arguments about the potential utility or negative issues arising due to AI. There are many concerns about the 'control problem' of AI or how to 'sandbox' AI so it can serve our interests and not let a fast takeoff of AI lead to a situation where AI is the sole power around...
Hey all, I'm a student in university who wants to Double Major in Computer Engineering and Physics or Computer Engineering and Mathematics. Ideally I want to get some time in working on quantum computers and some time in working on advanced AI, so one of the big things I want to do is pick the...
Hey all, I'm a student in university who wants to Double Major in Computer Engineering and Physics or Mathematics. Ideally I want to get some time in working on quantum computers and some time in working on advanced AI, so one of the big things I want to do is pick the community's brain on...
I am a programming novice with minimal knowledge of C, Python and Java that I've taught myself from books and videos. Eventually I'd like to get into AI and machine learning but I have no idea where to start. Thus far, the minimal coding I've learned has been rather aimless with no specific...
As a AI programmer, among other things, I know the limitations of the technology. So I vote No to this question. For one thing, safe driving demands being able to think ahead and anticipate situations which sensors do not pick up.
Recently, I've been struggling with this issue. I really really love theoretical physics and mathematics, but at some point, I feel like it has now become into a mix of speculation and super advanced mathematics. The fact that some physicists say some areas like String Theory or Quantum Loop...
I mean, probably in the future an Artificial Intelligence may solve every problem of Physics and even create a theory of everything. I feel like all the progress physicist have done in 100 years could be done in the future by a machine like in 1 second. So why should we keep on doing research at...
So reading this today where FACEBOOK engineers had to unplug an AI system because the AI bots started to create it's own language and programmers could not decipher the code/language between the bots. They 'panicked' and pulled the plug on it...
I found an article about AI programming languages (https://qubit-labs.com/ai-programming-languages-choose/) and I've got several questions:
1. Are AIML and Lisp still used in programming?
2. Several sources refer to C++ as the fastest programming language? In what way the speed of language is...
I rewatched the Matrix I, II, and III. The AI machines have evolved so much they have their own cities. Which made me wonder.. If a planet were totally inhabited by AI machines. Would they still be individual android with its own personality.. or a collective personality?
What sci-fi movies...
I just have a simple question, which probably a psychologist might better answer; but, here it goes...
Why is AI so badly portrayed by people? I'm kind of tired of all the negativity surrounding AI, which seems unwarranted in any way.
Why do people, often well educated and intelligent...
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I am looking for guidance.
I have been working in software industry for about eight years now.
I see that the trend is moving towards making a machine intelligent.
I want to be part of this trend and move forward.
My questions is:
What skills do I need to become part of this era of...
This is a long read, but totally worth it. It's about Elon Musk's new company Neuralink and why we need it. The latter is answered quite thoroughly. http://waitbutwhy.com/2017/04/neuralink.html
What amazed me was the perspective of humans as a whole, seen as a single organism, where a single...
Hi I'm a freshman in college that is interested in AI, and I wanted to do some independent studies on this subject.
Is there some good books I can read to get into AI development, and could you also suggest books for advance developers?
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When I opened up the article https://www.wired.com/2017/01/move-coders-physicists-will-soon-rule-silicon-valley/ I expected to see quantum computing as the next field physicists are to revolutionize. I was surprised to see it was data management and machine learning. I am happy for physicists...