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Google’s DeepMind AI Learns Like a Human
April 1, 2017
Taking inspiration from neuroscience-based theories, Google’s DeepMind researchers have developed an AI that learns like a human. Deep neural networks, computer systems modelled on the human brain and nervous system, forget skills and knowledge they have learnt in the past when presented with a new task, known as ‘catastrophic forgetting’.
April 1, 2017
Taking inspiration from neuroscience-based theories, Google’s DeepMind researchers have developed an AI that learns like a human. Deep neural networks, computer systems modelled on the human brain and nervous system, forget skills and knowledge they have learnt in the past when presented with a new task, known as ‘catastrophic forgetting’.
IBM’s Watson Makes New Inroads Into Legal With Discovery, Business Research Offerings
March 28, 2017
IBM's announced expansion of Watson Discovery Service and the launch of Watson Company Profiler looks to further the AI platform's e-discovery and search technology. IBM's artificial intelligence-powered cognitive computing platform Watson has come a long way from its days playing "Jeopardy." Deployed last year for legal professionals as the engine behind legal research platform ROSS , Watson has recently made further inroads into the legal space with the December 2016 launch of Watson Discovery...
March 28, 2017
IBM's announced expansion of Watson Discovery Service and the launch of Watson Company Profiler looks to further the AI platform's e-discovery and search technology. IBM's artificial intelligence-powered cognitive computing platform Watson has come a long way from its days playing "Jeopardy." Deployed last year for legal professionals as the engine behind legal research platform ROSS , Watson has recently made further inroads into the legal space with the December 2016 launch of Watson Discovery...
Texas Launches Its Own Version of PACER, But Only a Few Lawyers Will Have Access
March 27, 2017
A dream recently came true for many for Texas lawyers as a database has been created that keeps track of all state and county court civil pleadings, much like the federal court's beloved Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER). And the Texas Supreme Court just approved a rule that grants access to the new state system — but only to a few attorneys. The system, known as re:SearchTX, is designed to allow attorneys to access civil case records in any of the hundreds of district and county...
March 27, 2017
A dream recently came true for many for Texas lawyers as a database has been created that keeps track of all state and county court civil pleadings, much like the federal court's beloved Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER). And the Texas Supreme Court just approved a rule that grants access to the new state system — but only to a few attorneys. The system, known as re:SearchTX, is designed to allow attorneys to access civil case records in any of the hundreds of district and county...
Super Humans Will Arrive by 2029 as Brains Begin to Fuse with Machines, Google Expert Claims
March 26, 2017
Technological singularity will turn us into super humans some time in the next 12 years, according to a Google expert. This might sound like science fiction, but Google's Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, has made 147 predictions since the 1990s and has a success rate of 86 per cent. Kurzweil says when we live in a cybernetic society we will have computers in our brains and machines will be smarter than human beings.
March 26, 2017
Technological singularity will turn us into super humans some time in the next 12 years, according to a Google expert. This might sound like science fiction, but Google's Director of Engineering, Ray Kurzweil, has made 147 predictions since the 1990s and has a success rate of 86 per cent. Kurzweil says when we live in a cybernetic society we will have computers in our brains and machines will be smarter than human beings.
Lex Machina’s 2016 Securities Litigation Report Reveals 23 Percent Increase in Case Filings
March 26, 2017
-Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs are among top defendants; Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Credit Suisse were...
March 26, 2017
-Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs are among top defendants; Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Credit Suisse were...
Trucking Firms Could Improve Safety, Productivity With Big Data
March 25, 2017
The trucking industry loses billions of dollars and wastes millions of hours each year sitting idle in traffic. Helping drivers avoid congestion would increase productivity and improve safety, says a team of Iowa State University and industry researchers. The team has identified a solution using big data technology. The challenge is finding the most effective way to share data collected by state traffic centers across the country with carriers and drivers. Dave Cantor, an associate professor...
March 25, 2017
The trucking industry loses billions of dollars and wastes millions of hours each year sitting idle in traffic. Helping drivers avoid congestion would increase productivity and improve safety, says a team of Iowa State University and industry researchers. The team has identified a solution using big data technology. The challenge is finding the most effective way to share data collected by state traffic centers across the country with carriers and drivers. Dave Cantor, an associate professor...
AI’s PR Problem
March 25, 2017
Had artificial intelligence been named something less spooky, we’d probably worry about it less. Artificial intelligence, it seems, has a PR problem. While it’s true that today’s machines can credibly perform many tasks (playing chess, driving cars) that were once reserved for humans, that doesn’t mean that the machines are growing more intelligent and ambitious. It just means they’re doing what we built them to do. The robots may be coming, but they are not coming for us—because...
March 25, 2017
Had artificial intelligence been named something less spooky, we’d probably worry about it less. Artificial intelligence, it seems, has a PR problem. While it’s true that today’s machines can credibly perform many tasks (playing chess, driving cars) that were once reserved for humans, that doesn’t mean that the machines are growing more intelligent and ambitious. It just means they’re doing what we built them to do. The robots may be coming, but they are not coming for us—because...
Behavioral Probability
March 22, 2017
Throughout their long history, humans have worked hard to tame chance. They adapted to their uncertain physical and social...
March 22, 2017
Throughout their long history, humans have worked hard to tame chance. They adapted to their uncertain physical and social...
Assisting Pathologists in Detecting Cancer with Deep Learning
March 19, 2017
A pathologist’s report after reviewing a patient’s biological tissue samples is often the gold standard in the diagnosis of many diseases. For cancer in particular, a pathologist’s diagnosis has a profound impact on a patient’s therapy. The reviewing of pathology slides is a very complex task, requiring years of training to gain the expertise and experience to do well. Even with this extensive training, there can be substantial variability in the diagnoses given by different pathologists...
March 19, 2017
A pathologist’s report after reviewing a patient’s biological tissue samples is often the gold standard in the diagnosis of many diseases. For cancer in particular, a pathologist’s diagnosis has a profound impact on a patient’s therapy. The reviewing of pathology slides is a very complex task, requiring years of training to gain the expertise and experience to do well. Even with this extensive training, there can be substantial variability in the diagnoses given by different pathologists...
The Real Difference Between Google And Apple
March 19, 2017
Google and Apple are both hyper-successful companies, but chart their patents, and they have completely different innovation signatures. It’s a telling statistic about how Apple and Google operate differently. Apple is driven largely by a centralized development structure, stemming from its fabled design studio, whereas Google has a more distributed, open-source approach to new products. And to get a real picture of how this plays out organizationally, the Portland-based data visualization studio...
March 19, 2017
Google and Apple are both hyper-successful companies, but chart their patents, and they have completely different innovation signatures. It’s a telling statistic about how Apple and Google operate differently. Apple is driven largely by a centralized development structure, stemming from its fabled design studio, whereas Google has a more distributed, open-source approach to new products. And to get a real picture of how this plays out organizationally, the Portland-based data visualization studio...
