AshTech #5 Deepmind & Go

Sun, 08 May 2016 23:40:30 -0400

Go - Deepmind, Skinterface, Email Habits, Doodling, HoverBike

AI - Thoughts on Deepmind and Go

#AI #go #deepmind #singularity

The machines are winning. The recent win of Google’s Deepmind AI at laying Go is a major step in Machine Learning. Go is an abstract strategy board game for two players, in which the aim is to surround more territory than the opponent. The game has long been the holy grail of the AI geeks to find. Recently Google’s DeepMind AI defeated Go Grandmaster Lee Se Dol 4-1. This is clearly a triumph of the advances in artificial Intelligence and deep learning. In Game 3 Deepmind played a move that no human has ever made. Here in lies the hope that AI will bring to humanity. It will enable us to see things that we have not yet dreamt of and help us look beyond our imagination. So heres looking to the beginning of a beautiful friendship humanity+ai

Skinterface

#interface #applewatch #smartwatch #androidwear

This new idea for using the human skin as input for our smartwatch may just be the thing that will make them more usable.

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Email habits

#email

Some great tips from the C-suite on dealing with your daily email deluge. http://goo.gl/Om3Zt8

Doodling

#art #doodle As a parent of a doodler I was fascinated to learn how doodling enhances memory, recall and understanding of the subject matter. Maybe that is why when whiteboard my meetings I enjoy them better . http://goo.gl/tpVvIb

HoverBike