Complex Insight - Understanding our world

Scientists find further evidence that crabs and other crustaceans feel pain and then take steps to avoid it.

What’s the difference between machine learning, deep learning, big data, statistics, decision & risk analysis, probability, fuzzy logic, and all the rest? None, except for terminology. William Briggs gives a masterclass in explaining terminology currently bounding through the worlds of big data, analytics and data. Worth reading.

Long but interesting interview with linguist Noam Chomsky fom the Atlantic, on A.I. Wether you agree or disagree with his views on computation and intelligence and the directions taken by AI community and neuroscience - it makes for a stimulating read. Click on the image or the title to learn more.

Health care in the United States certainly needs an overhaul. The question is whether that overhaul will come from artificially intelligent doctors. IBM  has launched partnerships with insurance giant WellPoint and the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York and is expected offer Watson commercially to hospitals within the next few years. Wired article discusses the approach and pros and cons as seen by some doctors. Worth a read for a quick intro to modern AI comprising data mining and big data topics as an approach to treatment diagnostics in healthcare. Click on the image or the title to learn more.

Ingredients for the Semantic Sensor WebJožef Stefan InstituteLjubljana, SloveniaSeptember 23rd 2011Oscar CorchoFacultad de Inform

Good inverview with Dr. Jürgen Schmidhuber, Director of the Swiss Artificial Intelligence Lab, IDSIA. His research team’s artificial neural networks (NNs) have won many international awards, and recently were the first to achieve human-competitive performance on various benchmark data sets. IDSIA are probably the current world leaders in ANN research and the quality of what they do is rather insipiring. worth reading.

Wired has an interesting article on mobile computing. As ARM seeks to put cell phone chips into our supercomputers, Intel is doing the reverse. The lines between the mobile hardware and data center hardware are blurring. Intel’s experimental Single-chip Cloud Computer project, or SCC is a 48 core chip acts as a “network” of processors on a single chip, with two cores per node. The nodes actually communicate to each other much the same way nodes in a cluster in a data center would.  While these types of architectures are today used in big data applications that run on a server cloud environment there are actually many cases where a hybrid model would make the most sense including artificial intelligence, machine vision and augmented reality applications.  Click on the image or the title to learn more.

A.I is back in fashion and quickly becoming the new black. nice article from Impact Lab:  Nikolas Janin, who lives in Silicon Valley,  get's up every morning for his 40-minute commute to work just like everyone else. He is the shop manager and fleet technician at Google. In the mornings Janin gets dressed and heads out to his Lexus RX 450h for the trip on California’s freeways. That’s when his the car takes over. Mr. Janin’s ride is one of Google’s self-driving vehicles and it is equipped with sophisticated artificial intelligence technology that allows him to sit as a passenger in the driver’s seat.... Click on image or title to lean more.