AI

Shelly Palmer Talk About Microsoft's Tay and AI with Richard Quest on CNN. The tweets may be funny, but AI and chatbots are serious business. Original Airdate: March 30, 2016 Continue Reading →

Tay is a combination chatbot and AI system designed by Microsoft to "engage and entertain people where they connect with each other online through casual and playful conversation." It was specifically "targeted at 18 to 24 year olds in the U.S., the dominant users of mobile social chat services in the U.S." If the words "designed" and "targeted" are off-putting, then you're really not going to care for one of the system's recent, now infamous, tweets ... but, there is much, much more to learn from Microsoft's mistake. Continue Reading →

Shelly Palmer talks about Google's AlphaGo AI System and how it beat 9-dan Go master Lee Sedol 4 games to 1 in the Google DeepMind Challenge on Fox 5 with Juliet Huddy and Kerry Drew. Original Airdate: March 15, 2016 Continue Reading →

What made move 37 so interesting is that no one expected it. It was early in game two of the million-dollar Google DeepMind Challenge Match, and AlphaGo, an artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by Google, placed its 19th stone on a part of the game board that no human Go master would have considered. Some called it a "mistake." Others called it "creative" and "unique." But considering that AlphaGo went on to win its third game in a row against one of the strongest Go players in the world, the move should probably have been called what it really was: "intuitive." Continue Reading →