Bart Paulhamus, a branch supervisor at Johns Hopkins U Applied Physics Laboratory told Hill.TV that AI is “very, very far away” from approximating human intelligence, adding that the public should not fear a robot takeover in the near future.

https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/411179-robotics-expert-very-very-far-away-from-robots-surpassing-human-intelligence

The company’s smooth, charismatic founder and CEO wouldn’t be so out of place in Silicon Valley, except for the fact that she’s a woman. And for Zhang — whose firm is at the forefront of visual recognition in artificial intelligence — China is not only more favorable to female tech leaders but tech, period.

https://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/why-an-artificial-intelligence-pioneer-ditched-silicon-valley-for-beijing/88260

AI-enhanced indexing uses algorithms to marry the idiosyncratic teaching materials of these disparate schools, districts, and teachers to create an individualized approach for each child based on their needs.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2018/10/08/100-literacy-or-what-if-ai-could-fix-our-broken-educational-system/#69a734ef77b4

Researchers at Facebook’s Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) group have developed a piece of AI software that can determine what ingredients were used to make a certain dish and describe how they were assembled.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/samshead/2018/10/07/facebook-researchers-create-ai-system-that-turns-food-photos-into-written-recipes/#42f1edaa7c45

AI Is Kicking Space Exploration into Hyperdrive—Here’s How

“It’s no secret that machines are advancing exponentially and will eventually surpass human intelligence,” said Ben Goertzel, SingularityNET’s CEO and creator of the software behind a social, humanoid robot named Sophia.

https://bigthink.com/surprising-science/computers-smart-as-humans-5-years

The majority of Adobe’s revenue comes from its Digital Media business, which includes creative cloud software such as Photoshop. Marketing software is included in the Digital Experience business, which generated $614 million in revenue in the most recent quarter, with 21 percent growth year-on-year.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/25/adobes-virtual-analyst-mixes-human-intelligence-with-ai.html

Later on in the four-day conference, the company announced more plans to develop technologies that could be turned into useful things in everyday life, including an AI-chip subsidiary called Pingtou Ge and a team that’s developing a quantum processor.

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612190/why-alibaba-is-investing-in-ai-chips-and-quantum-computing/

“A variety of elements — from historical events, to river level readings, to the terrain and elevation of a specific area — feed into our models,” writes Matias. “With this information, we’ve created river flood forecasting models that can more accurately predict not only when and where a flood might occur, but the severity of the event as well.”

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/25/17900018/google-ai-predictions-flooding-india-public-alerts