Steve Knode (@sknode) profile picture

UMGC Professor, teaching and exploring Emerging Information Technologies, AI, and Data Analytics

Wake Forest, NC
Joined October 2008
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An insightful article just published, DeepMind’s Newest AI Programs Itself to Make All the Right Decisions, is the latest example of the tremendous progress in Deep Learning, shorturl.at/nyBDJ.
I am a big fan of Bernard Marr. His latest presentation, Tech Trends In Practice: Self-driving Cars, Robots, Chatbots, Machine Vision, And 5G, is very insightful, youtube.com/watch?v=0VLX0wWN…
Just when you think you have heard everything AI can do, here comes "How a New AI Translated Brain Activity to Speech With 97 Percent Accuracy", bit.ly/39IWTUV
Very interesting development in the world of avatar chatbots! Watch the included video for more from NEON., cutt.ly/qrxa3pX.
Excellent article (and podcast) about XiaoIce, certainly the most popular (and effective?) chatbot currently, shorturl.at/epuIR.
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Impressive story (and demo) of how AI will allow for creative and original story text creation, "The Next Word: Where will predictive text take us": newyorker.com/magazine/2019/…
An extremely insightful article about how exponential progress can profoundly impact the world around us: Gates Law: How Progress Compounds and Why It Matters, available at: fs.blog/2019/05/gates-law/
Almost 20 years ago, Marshall Brain published a fascinating book, Manna, in which he outlined the future as controlled by AI, (marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm). Now, Amazon has partly realized this scenario shorturl.at/adL57
Worth keeping an eye on, Personal AI's. See the latest from the Chinese, bit.ly/2HPinHc
Great Dec 2018 TED interview with Ray Kurzweil (my favorite futurist), ted.com/talks/the_ted_interv…
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Excellent discussion between two of my favorite "big thinkers" (Ray Kurzweil and Peter Diamandis), at: a360.digital/p/Ray_Kurzweil_…?
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Just the latest in several real world applications of Deep Learning, this one showing how a deep learning application can match doctors in diagnosing eye problems, goo.gl/WZFz3M
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A very insightful and detailed report on the current status (and predicted) future of Artificial Intelligence (mostly Deep Learning) is available at: stateof.ai/. Well worth a look!
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If you haven't yet seen it, the MIT Technology Review list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2018 is available at technologyreview.com/lists/t…. Very interesting developments as always.
The latest great Mary Meeker Internet Trends report for 2018 now available at kpcbweb2.s3.amazonaws.com/fi… . As always, great insights
Another very impressive application of Deep Learning, this time from Google. A microscope that pinpoints breast and prostate cancer from biopsy images, research.googleblog.com/2018…
Very interesting and insightful article, "Seven Technologies Remaking the World", sloanreview.mit.edu/projects…?