Gigaom AI Minute – June 5

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AI warehouse helpers, Mark Zuckerberg, AlphaGo's Victory against Go Champion Ke Jie, and AI folk tunes "Bot Dylan" are making news in today's AI minute.

Transcript

  • Warehouse workers will soon get some help from "Chuck," a robot designed to locate items on shelves more quickly. Built by 6 River Systems, Inc. Chuck has an 11-inch touchscreen, which shows workers how to navigate to various items. It then displays images of the items, the quantity needed and the SKU or barcode. It follows up with the quickest route to the next item on the list. Read more.
  • Speaking recently at Harvard's commencement ceremony, Mark Zuckerberg endorsed basic income as an "idea worth exploring." He went on to say, “We should have a society that measures progress not just by economic metrics like GDP, but by how many of us have a role we find meaningful.” Read more.
  • The world's top-ranked Go player, 19-year-old Ke Jie, rematched Google's artificial intelligence program AlphaGo in a 3-game battle to win the 3,000-year-old Chinese board game and lost again. Commenting afterward, Mr. Ke attributed human emotions as a factor in the loss. AlphaGo's first victory in January of this year was hailed as "a landmark event in the development of AI." Read more.
  • Dubbed "Bot Dylan," a new computerized composer has created more than 100,000 new AI machine based 'folk tunes'. Developed by scientists at London's Kingston University and Queen Mary University, the AI composer trained across 23,000 pieces of Irish folk music. Read more.
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