A Tesla drove itself from a garage to a highway — #14

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Awesome: “ All Tesla cars being produced now have full self-driving hardware. Self-driving cars will be substantially safer than a human driver, lower the financial cost of transportation for those who own a car, and provide low-cost on-demand mobility for those who do not.”

Not awesome: “Imagine receiving a phone call from your aging mother seeking your help because she has forgotten her banking password. Except it’s not your mother. The voice on the other end of the phone call just sounds deceptively like her. It is actually a computer-synthesized voice, artificial intelligence technology that has been crafted to make it possible for someone to masquerade via the telephone. Such a situation is still science fiction — but just barely.”

The News

1/ A Tesla drove itself from a garage to a highway to a parking lot. link

2/ Apple hired its first director of AI research to make Siri smarter with “fundamental breakthroughs coming out of academic AI research.” link

3/ Researchers used machine learning to create interactive, talking avatars from the tv show Friends. link

4/ A Ph.d. candidate used a deep neural network to figure out what makes an image NSFW according to Yahoo’s standards. link (NSFW)

5/ China has eclipsed the United States in terms of the number of papers published annually about artificial intelligence. link

6/ Stripe publicly launched product to decrease e-commerce fraud with machine learning (has already blocked $10’s of millions of fraud in early testing). link

7/ Point72 Asset Management used machine learning to screen employees’ emails for “red-flag words.” link

8/ Pittsburgh’s AI traffic signals reduced travel time by 25% and idling time by 40% in pilot tests. link

9/ The Artificial Intelligence Open Network was created to advance the AI community through applied and fundamental research. link

10/ Bryan Johnson committed $100m to Kernel to build the world’s first neural prosthetic to enhance human intelligence. link

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