Awesome, not awesome.

#Awesome

“Artificial intelligence can, in weeks, offer new scientific ideas that would take lifetimes of human endeavor to come up with. It can also weigh up the evidence for hypotheses in an even-handed manner. In this it is unlike human beings, who become unreasonably attached to their own theories and pursue them doggedly. Such wasted effort besets the best of pharmaceutical firms.” — Learn More on The Economist >

#Not Awesome

“When we build a [personalized] robot, we would want it to know: What is your personality? When do you get up in the morning? When do you go to bed? Are you a tennis person? A TV person? The real question is, who else has access to that data? Is it going to be companies like Facebook, Google and Apple? Are we confident that they are not going to abuse that information to try to sell you information, or sell it to somebody else?” — @Henrik Christensen, Robotics Professor Learn More on The San Diego Union-Tribune >

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What we’re reading.

1/ More than 3 million people are watching two artificial intelligences say weird things to each other. Learn More on Twitch >

2/ This month, a Japanese insurance company will be replacing dozens of its employees with IBM’s artificial intelligence. Learn More on Quartz >

3/ Conversations with computers aren’t really useful since they have such a poor understanding of language — expect that to change in 2017. Learn More on MIT Technology Review >

4/ Artificial intelligence is built into everything from cars and fridges to toothbrushes and hairbrushes at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Learn More on Financial Times >

5/ The creator of Google’s Brain thinks AI will “free humanity from a lot of mental drudgery” like driving a car through traffic jams. Learn More on The Ringer >

6/ Nissan is banking on cubicle-based human drivers to take over autonomous vehicles when they face situations they can’t handle. Learn More on Wired >

7/ An investor from Playfair Capital believes AI will be as important to the advancement of technology as Mobile, Social, and the Cloud have been. Learn More on Medium >

Links from the Community.

“Japanese White-collar Workers are Already Being Replaced by Artificial Intelligence” submitted by Ben Krasnow (@bckrasnow). Learn More on Quartz >

“What I Learned Implementing a Classifier from Scratch in Python” submitted by Jean-Nicholas Hould (@NicholasHould). Learn More on Data Science and Bootstrapping >

“Meet Kuri, Another Friendly Robot for Your Home” submitted by Carl DeBrule (Thanks Dad)! Learn More on MIT Technology Review >

“What Users Really Want from Chatbots” submitted by Vera Dragilyova (@111wonderland). Learn More on Chatbots Life >

“In Cancer Fight, Artificial Intelligence Is A Smart Move For Everyone” submitted by Navid Alipour (@NavidAlipour). Learn More on Forbes >

“Our First Reddit Bot — Coloring B&W Photos Using AI Deep Neural Network Machine” submitted by Sean Melling Murray. Learn More on What I Made Today >

Your turn.

What do you think about these two intelligent app ideas?

1. An app that filters out background noise during voice calls, so that you can have crystal clean conversations. 2. An app that eliminates the need for passwords by asking users to read a random word or phrase.

A reddit ask for, and received, some (brutal) feedback here. Feel free to speak your mind. 🙊📢🤖

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