Web 3.0

Les recherches en intelligence artificielle font de tels progrès que des scientifiques réputés, comme le physicien Stephen Hawking, voient dans l’I.A. un danger pour l’Homme. Pourtant, selon les spécialistes, nous sommes très loin de voir un jour surgir une I.A. inamicale.

Dans moins de quinze ans seront vraisemblablement avérées les prophéties de ceux qui annonçent la victoire sur la mort et le triomphe d’une forme de vie non biologique. Le slogan de Google « nous allons tuer la mort » n’est pas qu’une formule publicitaire. Car les technologies déchainées avancent inexorablement vers le moment où nous serons plus qu’humains. De la réparation de nos organes à leur fabrication, de la collection de nos pensées à leur téléchargement sur des formes artificielles, le jour n’est pas très loin où nous pourrons déclarer que nous avons aboli la mort. Que nous avons accompli le rêve prométhéen d’immortaliser ce qu’il y a de plus précieux en nous.

We'll be immortal. As long as the robots don't kill us.

"Today I’ll tell you that the next big advance is well underway and it’s being fueled by a recent technique in the field of Artificial Intelligence known as Deep Learning.”

Tomasz’s overview starts from the 1970s with Semiconductors towards 2015-2020 with Deep Learning Revitalising Robotics (see image below).

Artificial intelligence is a classic risk/reward technology. If developed safely and properly, it could be a great boon. If developed recklessly and improperly, it could pose a significant risk. Typically, we try to manage this risk/reward ratio through various regulatory mechanisms. But AI poses significant regulatory challenges. 

John Danaher, 21/22/2015

There are two aspects to the possible future of the Web; one is that it is definitely going to be more social and more people-centric, but the other important characteristic is that it’s going to be more semantic in nature. The Web technologies that we have available today focus more on how pages are displayed and what content is displayed, rather than on the content itself. The semantic Web is a facet of technology that will allow this content to become meaningful for machines, and will enable them to process this content and help us share, combine and analyse content effectively.

The future of AI isn't about one giant super-intelligence. Instead, it's about many small, dedicated agents that know you intimately and work on your behalf to improve your everyday life. That could be helping you shop, get to work or, even, find a partner.

Current warfare seems ugly enough, what with the drones and Kalashnikovs. But add a dose of computerized efficiency, and the battlefield of the future could be one truly optimized—and terrifying—killing machine.

Microsoft Chief Scientist Xuedong Huang talks about the power and potential of speech recognition and of artificial intelligence.

IoT is about to explode, perhaps literally, if privacy and security issues aren't fixed.

Artificial Intelligence is here and it’s changing every aspect of how business functions. But it’s not replacing people one job function at a time. It’s making people in every job function more efficient by handling the easy cases and watching and learning from the hard cases.

At RE•WORK Deep Learning Summit, Andrej will be discussing 'Visualizing and Understanding Recurrent Networks'. Recurrent neural networks (RNNs), and specifically a variant with long short-term memory (LSTM), are enjoying renewed interest as a result of successful applications in a wide range of machine learning problems that involve sequential data.

When people talk about “the next big thing,” they’re never thinking big enough. It’s not a lack of imagination; it’s a lack of observation. I’ve maintained that the future is always within sight, and you don’t need to imagine what’s already there. Case in point: The buzz surrounding the Internet of Things. What’s the buzz?…

A robot developed by the National Institute of Informatics is now smart enough to be accepted into most Japanese universities—but not the notoriously selective University of Tokyo.