THE TECH-LICIOUS: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.600000381469727px;">There's no question that Apple's </span>virtual assistant<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.600000381469727px;"> comes in handy when you </span>need information quickly<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.600000381469727px;">. And now, one of Siri's creators is working on a more advanced form of AI that goes far beyond the current iPhone option. Viv Labs says its personal assistant will possess a limitless tool set because the software can teach itself. This means that in addition to the regular ol' search, the artificial intelligence will also be able to perform tasks like booking reservations based on openings in your schedule and more. "Siri is chapter one of a much longer, bigger story," Dag Kittlaus, Viv's co-founder who also worked on Apple's assistant, tells </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.600000381469727px;"><a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/08/viv/" style="color: #3399cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Wired</a>. </em><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 25.600000381469727px;">Bypassing the need for coders (and constraints), Viv generates its own program to answer queries and complete tasks in seconds. Once the system is "trained" to understand the vocabulary of a subject, the company aims to sort through loads of data to not only lend a hand, but anticipate what we'll need next.</span></span><br />
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Siri co-creator is working on a virtual assistant capable of anything

There's no question that Apple's virtual assistant comes in handy when you need information quickly. And now, one of Siri's creators is working on a more advanced form of AI that goes far beyond the …

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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Will Smith's recurring nightmares about iRobot's Sonny may finally have subsided, but there's a good chance he'll be alive to come face to face with the real thing - according to one expert in the field of AI.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Murray Shanahan, professor of cognitive robots at Imperial College London, is working on deep learning in AI and believes there's a good chance that we'll see AI match human intelligence in the next 30 years.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"I would say the chances of it happening in my lifetime are better than fifty-fifty," he told TechRadar. "So within the next 30 years I would say better than fifty-fity that we'll achieve human-level AI."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">But while Siri and Google Now might be getting smarter by the day, Shanahan reckons there's a missing piece to the puzzle that we're yet to stumble upon. Once we've got it, things will develop a lot more quickly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"The amazing thing about humans, and other animals as well, is that we're so adaptive. So that kind of general intelligence - we're a way off understanding how to achieve that artificial general intelligence, and I don't think anybody really knows what the missing pieces are," he said. "I think there's a trick that nature has discovered, that evolution has discovered, that we're not making the most of yet."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Shanahan said he's keeping a particularly close eye on what Google's up to, ever since it snapped up British artificial intelligence company DeepMind. And Google's certainly not the only one - companies like Facebook and Yahoo have also been scooping up AI experts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"In AI there have been these cycles of hype and disappointment, and we're in a big of a hype phase at the moment with all these events such as DeepMind being purchased by Google for 400 million pounds. And a lot of people are working on the same technology that they're working on."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"Maybe this one will not be followed by disappointment. Maybe there's something in this, especially as we're seeing a lot of major corporations putting serious money into some of this stuff."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">One area that Shanahan feels has rapidly picked up recently is speech recognition. "It was really pretty crap for years and years. And then suddenly with statistical machine learning and a lot of cheap computation available, able to process huge amount of data, suddenly that has become very successful."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">"I think speech recognition is pretty much there," he added. "But one of the reasons it's got better is because of the use of predictive technology. And that's because of the availability of huge amounts of data that it can learn from, so that's helped. Which is no doubt the way we work as well."</span></div>
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"ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE" will likely match human intelligence in the next 30 years ,says robot expert

Will Smith's recurring nightmares about iRobot's Sonny may finally have subsided, but there's a good chance he'll be alive to come face to face with the real thing - according to one expert in the fi…