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VIRTUAL TASTE. "Moving on to taste now, and Cheok’s most surprising invention: the “Electronic Taste Machine”. Wedged between two metal sensors, your tongue is tricked into experiencing various tastes, ranging from sour to bitter, salt or sweet, depending on the frequency of the electrical current passing through the electrodes. And like with the other devices, these electrical signals can travel through the Internet." https://lnkd.in/evzgUmJ View in LinkedIn

HER, THE MOVIE BY SPIKE JONZE. "Theodore purchases a talking operating system (OS) with artificial intelligence, designed to adapt and evolve. He decides he wants the OS to have a female voice, and she names herself "Samantha". Theodore is fascinated by her ability to learn and grow psychologically. Theodore and Samantha's intimacy grows through a verbal sexual encounter." Haunting. https://lnkd.in/e4HHQ_9) View in LinkedIn

DEEPMIND AND MORE. "Google recently paid a reported £400 million for the UK deep-learning company DeepMind and has lured AI legends Geoffrey Hinton and Ray Kurzweil to its headquarters in Mountain View, California. Facebook has its own deep-learning group, led by prize hire Yann LeCun from New York University. Their goal is to build a new generation of AI that can process massive troves of data to predict and fulfil our desires." https://lnkd.in/eEpdNGn View in LinkedIn

VIV CLOSES SERIES B of $12.5 M from "funding was led by Iconiq Capital, the so-called “Silicon Valley billionaires club” that operates a cross between a family office and venture capital firm. Multiple sources close to the matter confirm the round, which was oversubscribed and values the company at north of nine figures." http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/20/viv-built-by-siris-creators-scores-12-5-million-for-an-ai-technology-that-can-teach-itself/ View in LinkedIn

"AS VIV'S KNOWLEDGE GROWS, so will its understanding; its creators have designed it based on three principles they call its "pillars": it will be taught by the world, it will know more than it is taught, and it will learn something every day. As with other AI products, that teaching involves using sophisticated algorithms to interpret the language and behaviour of people using the system -- the more people use it, the smarter it gets." https://lnkd.in/eEpdNGn View in LinkedIn

VIV, UNLIMITED LEARNING. "Whereas Siri can only perform tasks that Apple engineers explicitly implement, this new program, they say, will be able to teach itself, giving it almost limitless capabilities. In time, they assert, their creation will be able to use your personal preferences and a near-infinite web of connections to answer almost any query and perform almost any function." https://lnkd.in/eEpdNGn View in LinkedIn

NUANCED VIV. "It will be able to understand ambiguous, abstract commands with complex conditionals -- for example you can ask it to buy the cheapest available item that meets some criteria and it will hunt it down and initiate a purchase for you. It will even know the social context of what to do in in certain cases such as knowing to call a taxi if you tell it "I'm drunk." http://www.dailytech.com/ExSiri+CEO+Poaches+Apple+to+Create+Viv+The+Global+Brain/article36387.htm View in LinkedIn

APPLE'S VIV. "Viv founders say you’ll access its artificial intelligence as a utility, the way you draw on electricity. Simply by speaking, you will connect to what they are calling “a global brain.” And that brain can help power a million different apps and devices." http://www.dailytech.com/ExSiri+CEO+Poaches+Apple+to+Create+Viv+The+Global+Brain/article36387.htm 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

SIRI FIRST GENERATION. "And she had a personality: if you asked her if there was a God, she would demur with deft wisdom. "My policy is the separation of spirit and silicon," she'd say." https://lnkd.in/eEpdNGn View in LinkedIn