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Another data scientist with pragmatic thinking which is badly needed today. Keeping it real with Una-May O’Reilly.

Mumbai: Una-May O’Reilly, principal research scientist at Anyscale Learning For All (ALFA) group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, has expertise in scalable machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, and frameworks for large-scale, automated knowledge mining, prediction and analytics. O’Reilly is one of the keynote speakers at the two-day EmTech India 2016 event, to be held in New Delhi on 18 March.

In an email interview, she spoke, among other things, about how machine learning underpins data-driven artificial intelligence (AI), giving the ability to predict complex events from predictive cues within streams of data. Edited excerpts:

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I believe there are good advances in AI due to the processing performance; however, as I highlighted earlier many of the principles like complex algorithms along with the pattern & predictive analysis of large volumes of information hasn’t changed much from my own work in the early days with AI. Where I have concerns and is the foundational infrastructure that “connected” AI resides on. Ongoing hacking and attacks of today could actually make AI adoption fall really short; and in the long run cause AI to look pretty bad.

A debate in New York tries to settle the question.

By Larry Greenmeier on March 10, 2016.

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When I work on AI today and looking at it’s fundamental principles; it is not that much different from the work that I and another team mate many years ago did around developing a RT Proactive Environmental Response System. Sure there are some differences between processors, etc. However, the principles are the same when you consider some of the extremely complex algorithms that we had to develop to ensure that our system could proactively interrupt patterns and proactively act on it’s own analysis. We did have a way to override any system actions.

These questions originally appeared on Quora — the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights.

Answers by Neil Lawrence, Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Sheffield, on Quora.

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US Government’s cool $100 mil in brain research. As we have been highlighting over the past couple of months that the US Government’s IARPA and DARPA program’s have and intends to step up their own efforts in BMIs and robotics for the military; I am certain that this research will help their own efforts and progress.

Intelligence project aims to reverse-engineer the brain to find algorithms that allow computers to think more like humans.

By Jordana Cepelewicz on March 8, 2016.

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Don’t let the title mislead you — Quantum is not going to require AI to operate or develop it’s computing capabilities. However, what is well known across Quantum communities is that AI will greatly benefit from the processing capabilities & performance of Quantum Computing. There has been a strong interest in marrying the 2 together. However, Quantum maturity gap and timing has not made that possible until recently resulting from the various discoveries in microchip development, programming language (Quipper) development, Q-Dots Silicon wafers, etc.

Researchers at the University of Vienna have created an algorithm that helps plan experiments in this mind-boggling field.

The reach of #BigData: Connecting the world for more collaboration. With Jay Walker from TEDMED. http://bit.ly/1R4cYUQ

Glad to see this article get published because it echoes many of the concerns established around China and Russia governments and their hackers having their infrastructures on Quantum before US, Europe, and Canada. Computer scientists at MIT and the University of Innsbruck say they’ve assembled the first five quantum bits (qubits) of a quantum computer that could someday factor any number, and thereby crack the security of traditional encryption schemes.

Shor’s algorithm performed in a system less than half the size experts expected.

So long pseudo-random number generator. Quantum mechanics brought us true randomness to power our crypto algorithms, and is strengthening encryption in the cloud, the datacenter, and the Internet of Things.

“Notice for all Mathmaticians” — Are you a mathmatician who loves complex algorithems? If you do, IARPA wants to speak with you.

Last month, the intelligence community’s research arm requested information about training resources that could help artificially intelligent systems get smarter.

It’s more than an effort to build new, more sophisticated algorithms. The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity could actually save money by refining existing algorithms that have been previously discarded by subjecting them to more rigorous training.

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