Month: July 2017

Modern devices like telephones and intelligent personal assistants, will respond to the touch of a finger and even to our simple voice commands, but when will we take the next step?  Humans often communicate more with the movement of their bodies especially to express emotions, then they do with speech.  Interpreting the sometimes subtle movements of nonverbal communication between individuals will allow computers and autonomous robots to serve in social spaces, where understanding what people around them are doing could be vital to their duties. Next Step The critical next step will be for a computer to learn to properly...

The cutting edge of AI and chip making is the integration of intelligence into a variety of applications so they work better by increasing productivity, efficiency and connectivity. This concept is often referred to as embedded intelligence. While there have been some major leaps in recent years in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine learning, computer chips are lagging in throughput to fully power embedded intelligence. In computers and many other devices today there is a chip for computing and a separate chip for data storage. The interaction between the two are limited. As applications are required to...

Many of us as car drivers face the possibility of making a split second decision about the lesser of two evils in a crash scenario. Most of us probably don’t have these rules written in stone somewhere, but we would make the tough call on what to do on the fly based on what we thought gave us the best outcome.  But an autonomous vehicle really does have to follow its’ programming rules in these situations, and make profound choices about whose lives take priority.  Autonomous carmakers must program these moral and ethical decisions meticulously and make them clearly...