4 Experiments Where AI Outsmarted Its Creators

From Two Minute Papers, an amazing look at 4 instances where artificial intelligence outsmarted the folk who developed it. Makes one think …... or, do we really have to (think)?



The paper "The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities" is available here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453

This is how tech firms deceive you into giving up your data and your privacy

Have you ever actually read the terms and conditions for the apps you use? Finn Lützow-Holm Myrstad and his team at the Norwegian Consumer Council have, and it took them nearly a day and a half to read the terms of all the apps on an average phone. In a talk about the alarming ways tech companies deceive their users, Myrstad shares insights about the personal information you've agreed to let companies collect -- and how they use your data at a scale you could never imagine.

This talk was presented at a TED Salon event given in partnership with Samsung.

What happens when we teach a computer how to learn?

Technologist Jeremy Howard shares some surprising new developments in the fast-moving field of deep learning, a technique that can give computers the ability to learn Chinese, or to recognize objects in photos, or to help think through a medical diagnosis. (One deep learning tool, after watching hours of YouTube, taught itself the concept of "cats.") Get caught up on a field that will change the way the computers around you behave ... sooner than you probably think.

This talk was presented to a local audience at TEDxBrussels, an independent event.