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“INTELLIGENCE BECOMES A UTILITY. Viv is an artificial intelligence platform that enables developers to distribute their products through an intelligent, conversational interface. It’s the simplest way for the world to interact with devices, services and things everywhere. Viv is taught by the world, knows more than it is taught, and learns every day.” http://viv.ai/ View in LinkedIn

"VIV is taught by the world, knows more than it is taught, and learns every day." http://viv.ai/ View in LinkedIn

SUBSTRATE FOR AI-LEARNING. "Google still doing at least 1 trillion searches per year. Company is sticking with figure it gave in 2012 but stresses it's "over" that amount. How much over, Google's not saying." This is a machine learning super-school. https://lnkd.in/d7Ets72 View in LinkedIn

MACHINE LEARNING. Somewhere between uncannily prescient fiction that has become embedded in the popular imagination, and the real-life data and behavior mining of the human meta-brain in massive search engines like Google, machine learning is inexorably poised for explosive growth. View in LinkedIn

AI-INTELLIGENCE. "Achievements in artificial intelligence include constrained and well-defined problems such as games, crossword-solving and optical character recognition and a few more general problems such as autonomous cars. Among the traits that researchers hope machines will exhibit are reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, communication, perception, and the ability to move and to manipulate objects." https://lnkd.in/d97xWSY View in LinkedIn

THIRD GENERATION SIRI. "It’s called J.A.R.V.I.S., which is short for Just A Rather Very Intelligent Scheduler. It’s named after Tony Stark’s intelligent computer assistant in the Iron Man movies (and technically, I’m told, his human butler in the old comic books)." http://9to5mac.com/2015/04/27/siri-backend-mesos/ View in LinkedIn

MINOR ROLE OF MUTATION. “In contrast to the decades long assumption that the driving forces of evolution were chance mutation (statistical replication errors) and selection it is now recognised that although mutation is an empirical fact it does not contribute very much to genetic novelty.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

TWO WAY READING. “The change from a read-only-memory genome with copying errors to a read-and-write genome with active change operators is fundamental.” https://lnkd.in/dWwkKpD View in LinkedIn

FRAGMENT FROM NATURE continues from last weekend and concludes this weekend on the linguistic perspective on contextual genetics and the controversial idea of the significant impact of mobile genetic elements on evolution, from an essay by Günther Witzany. Biologists as a group tend to fiercely resist new ideas and be locked into arcane outmoded ideas, and the poor acceptance of the enormous impact of mobile genetic elements on evolution is a poster-child example, not to mention the truly Luddite proposition that these kinds of elements (and viruses) are not alive, simply because they stuck to wrong definitions of life. View in LinkedIn