6-smarts this week
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6 ITEMS THIS WEEK TO MAKE US SMARTER
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We traversed the Internet of all Things to present
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THE BIG THREE THAT SPUR AI'S PROGRESS An informative piece about the three breakthroughs that made artificial intelligence a
reality of daily life: 1) Cheap parallel computation 2) Big data 3) Better algorithms. The
writer also predicted the future of non-human intelligence, to make a thought
provoking point about engineering AI to prevent consciousness. With artificial
‘smartness’ which is quantifiable and specific, the best AI services could be marketed as
‘conscious-free’ because of its non-human efficiency.
!SOURCE:http://www.wired.com/2014/10/future-of-artificial-intelligence/ !
AI SCORES BETTER THAN HIGH SCHOOLERS ‘To-Robo', a software developed by NTT lab in conjunction with the National
Institute of Informatics in Japan already scores higher in English than average high
schoolers in Japan. Very soon, it will pass competitive college entrance exams. To-
Robo is being further developed to grasp subtexts in complex conversations as well
as comprehend emotions of speakers, like humans would with our EQ. !SOURCE:http://blogs.wsj.com/japanrealtime/2014/11/04/artificial-intelligence-outperforms-average-
japanese-high-school-senior/
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NANO-SIZE ROBOTIC SCALLOP Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in
Stuttgart have 3D printed a micro robotic scallop measuring 300
microns thick and 800 micros wide (simply put, less than a fraction of a
millimetre). This micro-scallop is supposed to be able to swim in
biological fluids. Eventually the scallop could be injected into human
bloodstreams to swim wherever it has to, to fix whatever problems
inside our bodies.
SOURCE:http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/micro-robots-swim-human-body-154687
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CROWDSOURCING COSMIC RAYS Physicists knew smartphone cameras could detect ultra-high energy
cosmic rays hitting earth from space. Thus the app CRAYFIS is
developed to crowdsource cosmic rays. CRAYFIS is free and in beta
phase, available for iOS and Android. With users of the app distributed
world-wide, a global network of detectors will collect data much-
needed in the study of cosmic rays.
!SOURCE:http://www.engadget.com/2014/10/13/detecting-cosmic-rays-with-phones/?
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BIG DATA + ETHNOGRAPHY = INNOVATION Big data by itself has been lagging as a driver of innovation although it is useful
as a means to understand what consumers want and are doing. Ethnography is
a tool which collects deep insights about challenges experienced by subjects in
their natural environment. Researchers find that a combination of the two make
an effective set of tools to uncover innovation opportunities.
SOURCE:http://www.innovationmanagement.se/imtool-articles/the-dynamic-duo-of-innovation-
ethnography-and-big-data/
STUDYING THE MAKERS OF TECHNOLOGIES Technologists do ‘user research’ to build tech applicable to end-users. Ethnography is
the equivalent of ‘user research' in humanities. To comprehend the perceptions that
eventually produced the technologies consumed by end-users, an Anthropologist
conducted ethnographic research on the designers of technology to understand from
a social and cultural stand-point the process that technologies get made. Interestingly
this adds another layer of insight to the insights made about end-users.
!SOURCE:http://ethnographymatters.net/blog/2014/03/10/studying-up/
UNTIL THE NEXT 6 ITEMS… HAPPY WEEKEND!
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