Artificial Intelligence - Top-30 Posts Edition-1

Some people call this artificial intelligence, but the reality is this technology will enhance us. So instead of artificial intelligence, I think we'll augment our intelligence. - Ginni Rometty, IBM CEO

In this first edition of curated AI (Artificial, Augmented, Advanced, Automated - Intelligence) posts - I am covering Future of AI, AI Ethics, AI Forecasts for years to come, Advantages and Benefits of AI, Skepticism of AI, Some Intriguing news articles about AI and some General AI Topics in some good blogs - by some of the best and brightest authors and writers across the globe. I Hope you enjoy reading them.

Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that AI is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition. — Sebastian Thrun - Ex Google Self Driver Car Engineering Lead & Founder Udacity

Interesting Articles

• We have the first AI bot with a residency - in Japan. An AI character is made an approved resident of a central Tokyo location. - ‘Shibuya Mirai’ Is The ‘World’s First AI Bot’ To Be Granted Residency In Japan
• A Hilarious A.I. bot fights email scammers by trolling them, wasting their time - An interesting way to payback the scammers in style. Use the AI to waste the most important resource they do not have much - Time. Classic and hilarious. Watch the video for more fun.

• Artificial intelligence could 'take control' of our thoughts - An interesting perspective on how Brain Computer Interface can take full control of our thoughts. This is similar to what we saw in the movie Transcendence or some scenes in the movie Matrix or the oracles of the minority report. Neuralink and other firms are advancing this further.
• Enterprise Artificial Intelligence: 10 Commandments for 2018 - A nice compilation of the list of top-10 commandments to consider and follow for 2018. Nicely done!
• AI will transform smartphones into 'intelligent phones': Huawei - This view by Huawei is interesting, as smartphones which are more powerful than some of the supercomputers of the recent past and with more capable processor speed than that of Apollo mission, can become intelligent! Think about that, aren't smartphones already smart/intelligent? Just a figurative thought.
• Artificial Intelligence Is Already Common -- and It's About to Take Over - Interesting post again. Humans are very powerful at the moment and as predicted, its only a matter of time before AI takes over most of the menial jobs to propel the human productivity by 1.8% which is a lot more than the previous industrial revolutions ( steam engine, automobile/air transport, computer, mobile etc.)

Intriguing Articles

• Nvidia steps up its transition to an AI company - It's no surprise that the creators of the costliest computing device (worth over $3 billion) for AI is stepping up their hegemony to become the leading AI company in the world. Is this a wake-up call for IBM, Google, Tesla, Facebook and other progressing their might in this important field?
• Russia has serious ambitions for military robotics - As the Russian Premier quoted, the nation/state leading the AI race will become the next super power. The race is already on between the hegemonic countries - the USA, China, Russia and other technology leaders. Where will this lead to?

Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russian, but for all of humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world. - Vladimir Putin

• IBM Ups Pressure on Rivals With Quantum Computer Prototype - IBM has created a prototype 50 Qubit quantum computer. It is close to the threshold at which it could perform tasks beyond the capability of existing supercomputers. This milestone is referred to as “quantum supremacy" by the leading researchers. Is IBM ahead of Google and other technology leaders as well?
• How will you ensure you have the right ethics enforced to prevent breakout of control - Given the fact that Robots could eventually make decisions against our will?
• How can you better manage emergency situation with efficient use of AI - A brilliant Use case - AI could improve real-time emergency response
• Another brilliant Use case - How can you leverage AI to do efficient marketing, leveraging sentiment and emotions analysis. How can you keep emotions at the door whilst doing content marketing? - AI and marketing: Control your emotions to take the prize

• Why is it important to have human-like communications for the Bots - Why the world's largest tech companies are building machine learning AI bots capable of humanlike communication? How can you avoid an issue like the following one. This is a real issue with a straight forward parsing and responses based on some of the keywords instead of understanding the full context of the message.

Inspiring Articles

• World's biggest contest for one of the most important benefits of AI (Computer Vision and Cognitive recognition) is over and you can Meet the winners of the biggest ever face-recognition challenge via the post in this article.
• How can you use AI for making HR more human? Besides CV/Resume Screening, Facial/body language detection in interviews, Stress Psychometric tests, Data based HR analytics, you can take a look at How Artificial Intelligence Can Make HR More Human in this nice article.
• One more use case of fruitful use of AI - How AI can save businesses from costly mistakes in expense reports - How to optimize the mundane, error prone, audit and compliance risky time-sheet entry and expenses management. Automating this will propel productivity of many firms, next to getting rid of useless meetings. More important for sales and services industries.
• Machine Learning and Deep Learning Markets are poised for good growth - Machine Learning Market Poised For Growth as Its Application in Diverse Sectors Drives Demand , is a nice article to read and benefit.
• How can you use general patterns we observe to innovate technology. If a bird can influence an aircraft, why not a fruit fly to optimize the search algorithm? We can learn from fruit fly brains to improve our search algorithms
• How can AI improve Employee Experience - The Future Of Work: How Artificial Intelligence Will Transform The Employee Experience - A brilliant take on Future of work and how employee engagement and experience can be propelled. Nice article
• India's leading Telco - Airtel is teaming with Amdocs to leverage AI to deliver better customer service - Airtel partners Amdocs to introduce AI-based services to customers - Nice article

I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted. - Alan Turing

Inquisitive Articles

• A summary article on how enterprise assistants and AI is changing the landscape. It’s no secret that AI is being applied to virtually everything, Salesforce launched Einstein as a big booster to enterprise conversational AI. Facebook Messenger is already having thousands of Bots helping businesses. Nice article indeed - AI Weekly: Digital assistants are changing business, but they still need human help
• How will the Voice technology evolve with the advances in Alexa, Siri, Cortana, Google Assistant, Watson and other leading technologies - Voice recognition and machine learning make service bots better is a nice article capturing the essentials.
• How can AI impact bitcoin, block-chain and crypto-currencies ? - Quantum computers could crack Bitcoin, but fixes are available now. A Nice perspective

Impediment Articles

• AI is definitely not fool-proof. Even in areas it matters - such as Sales and Customer Service. What are the challenges? This article is a brilliant analysis The Bumpy Road Ahead For AI In Sales, Customer Service
• A leading economy in southern hemisphere is having some doubts about AI - The rise of the machines been delayed in Australia Will this be followed by most of the advanced nations? I doubt it.
• For naysayers, an intriguing article on how human intelligence is paramount - Why Automation Won't Displace Human Intelligence in Analytics
• A CEO's perspective on why regulation may not work. If you have watched the Oscar winning documentary "Inside Job" on how the drive to deregulate the derivatives and capital markets were blocked by lobbies, you would get ideas and crux of the challenges an industry would address in case of regulations. This article - Trying To Regulate AI Not A Good Idea, Says VMWare CEO - is a good take on a challenge the industry needs to address very quickly.
• One impact of automation and artificial intelligence will be on the amount of jobs outsourced for cost arbitrage to low-cost destinations. Rise of the machines: Philippine outsourcing industry braces for AI is a real-view on what will eventuate. Pretty much most of the xPO (KPO, BPO, LPO etc.) and IT enabled Services will be impacted without fail. Nice analysis on impact of contact center outsourcing.
• Interesting article on how Apple i(Devices) face a bug due to machine learning - Apple's embarrassing "i → A [￡]" autocorrect bug could be a machine learning problem - Funny and interesting

Informative Book

• As a corollary - A nice book for reference on Machine Learning by MIT Press - Machine Learning

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases. - Norman Ralph Augustine

I hope you enjoyed the articles shared. Comments are welcome.

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