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Image: Google GUIA DEL PRADO, BUSINESS INSIDER 30 JUN 2015 Google's image recognition programs are usually trained to look for specific objects, like cars or dogs. But now, in a process Google's engineers are calling  'inceptionism' , these artificial intelligence networks were fed random images of landscapes and static noise. What they get back sheds light on how AI perceive the world, and the possibility that computers can be creative too.  The AI networks churned out some insane images and took the engineers on a hallucinatory trip full of knights with dog heads, a tapestry of eyes, pig-snails, and pagodas in the sky. Engineers trained the network by "showing it millions of training examples and gradually adjusting the network parameters," according to Google’s research blog. The image below was produced by a network that was taught to look for animals: Each of Google's AI networks is made of a hierarchy of layers, usually about ...

By Kaye Foley We’ve all heard of it. And chances are good you’ve come across it in some way or another if you use the Internet. (And I’m assuming you do, since you’re reading this right now.) I’m talking about  “the cloud,”  and so far, forecasts have called for recognition but little understanding.  So let’s clear it up. The cloud is actually a network of computers that work together , performing different functions, to help store and process enormous amounts of data. This is called “cloud computing,” and these computer networks are housed inside warehouses across the globe known as “data centers.”  Rather than saving your files locally on your computer’s hard drive, you can go online and send your digital belongings to these data centers, where there’s practically unlimited storage space. This means as long as you have an Internet connection, you can access your files anytime, on any device.   But the cloud isn’t useful only as personal storage space. Busine...

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Neuroscientist Paul Bach-y-Rita hypothesized in the 1960s that “we see with our brains not our eyes.” Now, a new device trades on that thinking and aims to partially restore the experience of vision for the blind and visually impaired by relying on the nerves on the tongue’s surface to send light signals to the brain. Legal blindness is defined by U.S. law as vision that is 20/200 or worse, or has a field of view that is less than 20 degrees in diameter. The condition afflicts more than one million Americans over the age of 40, according to the National Institutes of Health. Adult vision loss costs the country about $51.4 billion per year. About two million optic nerves are required to transmit visual signals from the retina—the portion of the eye where light information is decoded or translated into nerve pulses—to the brain’s primary visual cortex. With BrainPort, the device being developed by neuroscientists at Middleton, Wisc.–based Wicab, Inc. (a company co-founded by the...

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