Monthly Archives: April 2017

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The Unsettling Performance That Showed the World Through AI’s Eyes | WIRED

As computer vision quietly spreads through our lives and landscapes, it’s entertaining and practical, powerful and flawed, amusing and disturbing. The same goes for AI as a whole. You can’t see it. But it’s everywhere.

“There were no conclusions,” said Henry Dills, a photographer and cellist who watched the performance dressed in a brown sport coat and a white scarf that reached past his waist. “These machines are starting to massively overshadow us. It used to be God. Now it’s machines.”

Source: The Unsettling Performance That Showed the World Through AI’s Eyes | WIRED

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Pushing A Trillion Row Database With GPU Acceleration

“There is an arms race in the nascent market for GPU-accelerated databases, and the winner will be the one that can scale to the largest datasets while also providing the most compatibility with industry-standard SQL.

MapD and Kinetica are the leaders in this market, but BlazingDB, Blazegraph, and PG-Strom also in the field, and we think it won’t be long before the commercial relational database makers start adding GPU acceleration to their products, much as they have followed SAP HANA with in-memory processing.”

Source: Pushing A Trillion Row Database With GPU Acceleration

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What happens when the Trump administration ignores AI | VentureBeat | AI | by Rishon Blumberg, 10x Management

“Ignoring AI now means the United States will lag behind more forward-thinking countries that invest in AI today. While the United States waits “50 to 100 years” for AI to become a reality of life, other countries will be doing the hard work, laying the necessary infrastructure, and gaining from machine learning, and the human learning that goes along with it.”

Source: What happens when the Trump administration ignores AI | VentureBeat | AI | by Rishon Blumberg, 10x Management

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5 Neuroscience Experts Weigh in on Elon Musk’s Mysterious “Neural Lace” Company – IEEE Spectrum

What can we expect from Neuralink, the new Elon Musk company devoted to brain-computer interfaces?

This is very exciting technology, and I am fascinated by what it could mean.  Here Eliza Strickland asks 5 neuroscience types what they implications and limitations could be.

Source: 5 Neuroscience Experts Weigh in on Elon Musk’s Mysterious “Neural Lace” Company – IEEE Spectrum

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Database Breaches Still Plague the Internet, But There’s Hope Ahead | WIRED

While companies commonly use these databases to store tempting troves of customer and financial data, they often do so with outdated and weak default security configurations. And while any type of database can be left open or unprotected, a string of breaches over the last few years have all centered around one type in particular: open-source “NoSQL” databases, particularly those using the popular MongoDB database program.

Source: Database Breaches Still Plague the Internet, But There’s Hope Ahead | WIRED