21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-03-18 06:13:50

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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." https://lnkd.in/eJqEZrm View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments
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linkedin post 2020-03-18 06:11:53

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VIV LEARNS FROM THE WORLD. "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." http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2014/10/features/the-ai-that-could-conquer-the-world View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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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
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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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." https://lnkd.in/e5Qz3jg View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

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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." https://lnkd.in/e5Qz3jg View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-03-20 06:32:15

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HUMAN PARITY. “We tested this agent on the challenging domain of classic Atari 2600 games. We demonstrate that the deep Q-network agent, receiving only the pixels and the game score as inputs, was able to surpass the performance of all previous algorithms and achieve a level comparable to that of a professional human games tester across a set of 49 games, using the same algorithm, network architecture and hyperparameters." https://lnkd.in/daWaSDk View in LinkedIn
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21Sep 2022 by Nigel Fleming No Comments

linkedin post 2020-03-20 06:30:36

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NOT PRE-PROGRAMMED. "As opposed to other AIs, such as IBM's Deep Blue or Watson, which were developed for a pre-defined purpose and only function within its scope, DeepMind claims that their system is not pre-programmed: it learns from experience, using only raw pixels as data input." https://lnkd.in/dRxFGp6 View in LinkedIn
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