Professor John Leonard speaks with Bloomberg Businessweek about Google’s new Auto Android and how it compares with the company’s driverless car project. Leonard sees the two projects as part of an overall effort to dramatically transform transportation in our everyday lives.
Writing for Wired, Olivia Solon describes a new algorithm that can identify human action in video. “The activity-recognising algorithm is faster than previous versions and is able to make good guesses at partially completed actions, meaning it can handle streaming video,” Solon writes.
Boston Globe reporter Hiawatha Bray reports on the 50th anniversary of MIT’s Project MAC. “When this started in 1963, the dream was to let multiple people use computers simultaneously,” Daniela Rus explains. “Fifty years later we’re now in a world where we find computing indispensable.”
In a piece for CNN, Professor Erik Brynjolfsson and Dr. Andrew McAfee write that the rapid rate of technological innovation is leaving a large number of people without the skills necessary to participate in the modern economy.
Jon Gold reports on how MIT researchers have developed an algorithm that can identify human activity from video input. “The researchers drew on natural language processing techniques,” Gold writes, “to create a 'grammar' for each action they wanted the system to recognize.”
The Boston area is seeing a boom in startups that specialize in the use of artificial intelligence to more effectively market to consumers, writes Michael Fitzgerald for Boston Magazine. Fitzgerald writes about the startups, experts, and technologies from MIT that have helped to initiate this renaissance.
This Huffington Post article, co-authored by Professor Max Tegmark, looks at the future of artificial intelligence. The authors stress the need to spend more money investigating the potential benefits and risks of the robotic revolution.