What Artificial Intelligence Is – And Isn’t

Educator and entrepreneur Sebastian Thrun wants us to use AI to free humanity of repetitive work and unleash our creativity. In an inspiring, informative conversation with TED Curator Chris Anderson, Thrun discusses the progress of deep learning, why we shouldn’t fear runaway AI and how society will be better off if dull, tedious work is done with the help of machines. “Only one percent of interesting things have been invented yet,” Thrun says. “I believe all of us are insanely creative … [AI] will empower us to turn creativity into action.”

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What Is Artificial Intelligence?

Artificial intelligence as a concept has been around for as long as humans have been telling stories. Singing swords, enchanted items, the various stuff of magic is a way of ascribing intelligence and free agency to inanimate objects. Hephaestus, the Greek god of the forge, supposedly created bronze handmaidens to help him when he was crafting the weapons of the gods. Talos, the Bronze automata that Hephaestus created to protect the isle of Crete featured as one of the more gripping stories in the tales of Jason and the Argonauts, where Jason and his men were only able to defeat him by taking off the oil cap on his ankle (the original Achilles heel) and letting the oil drain out.

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Artificial Intelligence: The Future Of Cybersecurity

61% of enterprises say they cannot detect breach attempts today without the use of AI technologies. 48% say their budgets for AI in cybersecurity will increase by an average of 29% in Fiscal Year (FY) 2020. Breach attempts are proliferating with Cisco reporting that in 2018, they blocked seven trillion

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Top 9 Ways Artificial Intelligence Prevents Fraud

Rule-based engines and simple predictive models could identify the majority of fraud attempts in the past, yet they aren’t keeping up with the scale and severity of fraud attempts today. Fraud attempts and breaches are more nuanced, with organized crime and state-sponsored groups using machine learning algorithms to find new

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Diversifying Data With Artificial Intelligence And Blockchain Technology

An impressive feature of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is the technology’s ability to provide computational power to create cognition in machines. Yet A.I. critics today have become concerned that many artificial intelligence projects are centrally controlled and therefore producing “Narrow A.I.”

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