The truth is, artificial intelligence surrounds us already – it just doesn’t act in the way we expect.

Artificial intelligence is already all around you, from web search to video games. AI methods plan your driving directions, filter your spam, and focus your cameras on faces. AI lets you guide your phone with your voice and read foreign newspapers in English. Beyond today's applications, AI is at the core of many new technologies that will shape our future. From self-driving cars to household robots, advancements in AI help transform science fiction into real systems.

CS188.1x focuses on Behavior from Computation. It will introduce the basic ideas and techniques underlying the design of intelligent computer systems. A specific emphasis will be on the statistical and decision–theoretic modeling paradigm. By the end of this course, you will have built autonomous agents that efficiently make decisions in stochastic and in adversarial settings. CS188.2x (to follow CS188.1x, precise date to be determined) will cover Reasoning and Learning. With this additional machinery your agents will be able to draw inferences in uncertain environments and optimize actions for arbitrary reward structures. Your machine learning algorithms will classify handwritten digits and photographs. The techniques you learn in CS188x apply to a wide variety of artificial intelligence problems and will serve as the foundation for further study in any application area you choose to pursue.

https://www.edx.org/course/artificial-intelligence-uc-berkeleyx-cs188-1x#.VH8wgDGUeN4

The central problems (or goals) of Artificial intelligence research include reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning, natural language processing (communication), perception and the ability to move and manipulate objects.General intelligence is still among the field's long term goals.

The potential benefits of are huge; everything that civilization has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools that AI may provide.

There are also risks which we should consider and avoid intelligently!. I have read that world militaries are considering autonomous-weapon systems that can choose and eliminate targets and that the UN have advocated a treaty banning such weapons.

Darko, thank you for a very interesting question,

In principle yes, there is a potential hazard as any new technology carries the danger of misuse. On the other hand, people will blend with artificial intelligence or completely disappear....

I'm afraid that our machines will be our masters and we their slaves!

Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man

A robot that can open doors and find electrical outlets to recharge itself. Computer viruses that no one can stop. Predator drones, which, though still controlled remotely by humans, come close to a machine that can kill autonomously.

Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, a group of computer scientists is debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems that carry a growing share of society’s workload, from waging war to chatting with customers on the phone.

Their concern is that further advances could create profound social disruptions and even have dangerous consequences.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/science/26robot.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper&

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/why-we-should-think-about-the-threat-of-artificial-intelligence

AI has already lead many areas of our lives

I think, before you think that the artificial intelligence will replace the human population, you must see closely the complexity of the human brain.

Traction

Stepping seems so natural and that it runs without even thinking about it is actually a very complex operation. Purely on a voluntary incentive trips in less than 1/10 th of a second a fabulous amount of transactions we do not control consciously

Perception

By the sense organs, eyes, ears, mouth, nose, hands, feet and all of the skin, the individual receives information from the outside world.

Perceive an object is an extremely complex process that involves many parts of the brain in a very short time of the order of 1/1000 of a second. The shape, color, material, orientation in space, the apparent size, movement activate separate neuronal groups whose simultaneous information is a concept emerge.

Perception

By the sense organs, eyes, ears, mouth, nose, hands, feet and all of the skin, the individual receives information from the outside world.

Perceive an object is an extremely complex process that involves many parts of the brain in a very short time of the order of 1/1000 of a second. The shape, color, material, orientation in space, the apparent size, movement activate separate neuronal groups whose simultaneous information is a concept emerge.

The intelligence

Due to language and the ability to think ensuing individual may, without any external stimulus, creating abstractions, that is to say, draw from his outside perceptions complex world of images.

Intelligence is the ability of the brain to bring order into the chaos of the world's information it receives and make sense of them.

Memory

As events in a single moment of memory. Visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, emotional, each broken down into many facets. The view, for example, will deal separately with color, movement, lights, position in space. Every facet of a moment of memory seems to be stored near the center dedicated to him. This looks like a real puzzle that must be reconstituted for a memorial built to appear to us as a whole.

Dear Darko,

What Hawking, Musk and like minded people {attached link} with apocalyptic views are saying is more of utopia and exaggeration than reality. Hawking doesn't know what he is talking about as he does not know what AI is. Surely he listened to a lot of utopian sci fi stories. The bottom line is predictions on the future of AI are often not too accurate. 

http://time.com/3614349/artificial-intelligence-singularity-stephen-hawking-elon-musk/

Artificial intelligence is not exclusively in intelligent computer systems. It's one of the important topics in furniture design, which include reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning. It's a combination between design and marketing. It's all about how to save space, time and money all in a nice design

I use to teach my students that at the course of industrial design.

Here is some of my students work.

It is our future. To improve productivity of the world economy today's level of production automation must be higher and higher. Hence we need to provide Artificial intelligence in the various field of human activity.

The AI - Artificial Intelligence affects and will affect our lives more and more. Very good reading about this issue :10 Ways Artificial Intelligence Will Affect Our Lives!

http://www.discovery.com/tv-shows/curiosity/topics/ways-artificial-intelligence-will-affect-our-lives/

Artificial intelligence is a tool to help human in repetitive tasks or tasks who need fine precisions and calculation, or management, or speeding search of data or knowledge for analysis or learning, or in the daily life usage etc.... AI is a tool who could free human from non intelligent tasks to more intelligent thinking, learning and creativity, AI is a tool to make human able to more technology and advances for a well being. Yes some people think that robots, machines or calculators could be free from human control, this is only a question from fiction, All machines are human made and are naturally under human control. May be some people or interests could think to use technologies for other usage, but they could never be able, as numerical worldwide connectivity is also under others' control.

The question is that can we control AI? and resist its over convenience?

Many of us remember famous professor and scientist Marvin Minsky, the father of AI! "Scientists shouldn't have ethical responsibility for their inventions, they should be able to do what they want. You shouldn't ask them to have the same values as other people."

"...Maybe we'll scan our consciousnesses into computers and live inside them as software, forever, virtually. Maybe the computers will turn on humanity and annihilate us. The one thing all these theories have in common is the transformation of our species into something that is no longer recognizable as such to humanity circa 2011. This transformation has a name: Singularity."" Good reading!

http://english.pravda.ru/science/earth/28-02-2011/117040-beehive_society-0/

I agree with Ljubomir that AI involves some moral debating on: 1) Mortality, 2) Consciousness, 3) Identity.

How many jobs have been lost because of AI?

And how many jobs were created because AI?

"The vast majority of respondents to the 2014 Future of the Internet canvassing anticipate that robotics and artificial intelligence will permeate wide segments of daily life by 2025, with huge implications for a range of industries such as health care, transport and logistics, customer service, and home maintenance. But even as they are largely consistent in their predictions for the evolution of technology itself, they are deeply divided on how advances in AI and robotics will impact the economic and employment picture over the next decade."

http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/06/future-of-jobs/

But ultimately, all this will depend on energy input! Sustainable energy input is more important than AI because AI will depend on it. 

Albert Einstein

"I fear the day that technology will surpass our human interaction. The world will have a generation of idiots.“

Dear @Darko and friends,should we fear the robots of the future? "Published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in 2011 it produced a special supplement of original science fiction stories written by top writers from the genre.The Review says its normal mission is to identify important new technologies, and decipher the practical impact they will have on our lives.The sci-fi edition - with contributors such as Cory Doctorow and Elizabeth Bear - was an attempt to do that in an unusual way. The magazine called this "hard" sci-fi."

The world's oldest technology magazine is the MIT Technology Review.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-27909045

If artificial intelligence contributed to the extinction of the human population it would be very little intelligent. I believe man will live more and better. He will be undercontrol at all times.

Dear  Darco

We are talking about artificial intelligence we are already able to know what human intelligence and what is its limit. Therefore artificial intelligence is only a creation of man and for me is a drop in the sea as we have not experienced the limits of human intelligence. What a great biological machine in the image of its Creator

Regards

"Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools that AI may provide, but the eradication of war, disease, and poverty would be high on anyone's list. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last."

Stephen Hawking

"Bill Gates is worried about artificial intelligence too"  (Nick Statt)

http://www.cnet.com/news/bill-gates-is-worried-about-artificial-intelligence-too/

"One can imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand. Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all."

Stephen Hawking, Stuart Russell, Max Tegmark, and Frank Wilczek wrote in the Independent

How about this issue: Intelligent robots must uphold human rights! An interesting article."The common fear is that intelligent machines will turn against humans. But who will save the robots from each other, and from us, asks Hutan Ashrafian.... We must consider interactions between intelligent robots themselves and the effect that these exchanges may have on their human creators. For example, if we were to allow sentient machines to commit injustices on one another — even if these 'crimes' did not have a direct impact on human welfare — this might reflect poorly on our own humanity. Such philosophical deliberations have paved the way for the concept of 'machine rights'."

http://www.nature.com/news/intelligent-robots-must-uphold-human-rights-1.17167

Human Intelligence VS Artificial Intelligence 

HUMAN INTELLIGENCE pros

Intuition, common sense and creativity

The ability to demonstrate their intelligence by communicating effectively. 

Plausible reasoning and critical thinking. behavior and cognitive processes.  

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE Pros

 Humans are fallible.

They have limited knowledge

No “common sense”. bases.

Information processing of serial nature proceed very slowly in the brain as compared to computers 

Humans are unable to retain large amounts of data in memory. 

If a robot commit murder or war crimes during the conflict, who will be responsible for transgressions?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3033840/Will-robots-away-war-crimes

"I am one of those who are concerned about these super-intelligence. Machines will initially do a lot of jobs for us and it will go well if we positively manage the entire process. However, several decades later, artificial intelligence could become so strong that it will become dangerous. I agree with Elon Musk and others and I do not understand why some people are not worried."

Bill Gates

Dear @Markovic, intelligent machines may create hard problems to the human. "Even a machine successfully designed with motivations of benevolence towards humanity could easily go awry when it discovers implications of its decision criteria unanticipated by its designers. For example, a superintelligence programmed to maximize human happiness might find it easier to rewire human neurology so that humans are happiest when sitting quietly in jars than to build and maintain a utopian world that caters to the complex and nuanced whims of current human neurology...  A Friendly Artificial Intelligence (Friendly AI or FAI) is an artificial intelligence that is ‘friendly’ to humanity — one that has a good rather than bad effect on humanity...Thus, in order to design a friendly AI, it is not sufficient to determine what ‘friendliness’ is (and to specify it clearly enough that even a superintelligence will interpret it the way we want it to). We must also figure out how to build a general intelligence that satisfies a goal at all, and that stably retains that goal as it edits its own code to make itself smarter. This task is perhaps the primary difficulty in designing friendly AI. " Fine resource follows!

https://intelligence.org/ie-faq/

The Security Implications and Existential Crossroads of Artificial Intelligence

http://journal.georgetown.edu/the-security-implications-and-existential-crossroads-of-artificial-intelligence/

Humanoid robot .....

Humanoid robot starts work at Japanese department store

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/20/us-japan-robot-store

Robots lead to unemployment.

I think they can be useful only at that work where people don't want or cannot (dangerous) work.

The Advantages of Industrial Robots

Quality: 

Industrial automated robots have the capacity to dramatically improve product quality. Applications are performed with precision and high repeatability every time. This level of consistency can be hard to achieve any other way.

Production:

With robots, throughput speeds increase, which directly impacts production. Because an automated robot has the ability to work at a constant speed without pausing for breaks, sleep, vacations, it has the potential to produce more than a human worker.

Safety:

Robots increase workplace safety. Workers are moved to supervisory roles where they no longer have to perform dangerous applications in hazardous settings.

Savings:

Improved worker safety leads to financial savings. There are fewer healthcare and insurance concerns for employers. Automated robots also offer untiring performance which saves valuable time. Their movements are always exact, minimizing material waste.

The Disadvantages of Industrial Robots:

Expense:

The initial investment to integrated automated robotics into your business is significant, especially when business owners are limiting their purchases to new robotic equipment. The cost of robotic automation should be calculated in light of a business' greater financial budget. Regular maintenance needs can have a financial toll as well.

ROI:

Incorporating industrial robots does not guarantee results. Without planning, companies can have difficulty achieving their goals.

Expertise:

Employees will require training program and interact with the new robotic equipment. This normally takes time and financial output.

Safety:

Robots may protect workers from some hazards, but in the meantime, their very presence can create other safety problems. These new dangers must be taken into consideration.

http://www.robots.com/blog/viewing/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-automating-with-industrial-robots

AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs is very fine article about issue that @Anatoliy have raised. There are different opinions about! "The vast majority of respondents to the 2014 Future of the Internet canvassing anticipate that robotics and artificial intelligence will permeate wide segments of daily life by 2025, with huge implications for a range of industries such as health care, transport and logistics, customer service, and home maintenance. But even as they are largely consistent in their predictions for the evolution of technology itself, they are deeply divided on how advances in AI and robotics will impact the economic and employment picture over the next decade."

http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/06/future-of-jobs/

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

What is AI? It is, the theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.

Please, see the attached articles.

http://www.wired.com/2014/06/the-future-of-computer-intelligence-is-everything-but-artificial/

http://www.robotbooks.com/artificial-intelligence-future.htm

"The Superintelligent Will: Motivation and Instrumental Rationality in Advanced Artificial Agents” (Nick Bostrom)

http://www.nickbostrom.com/superintelligentwill.pdf

Why We Should Think About the Threat of Artificial Intelligence (Gary Marcus)

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/why-we-should-think-about-the-threat-of-artificial-intelligence

"The sad thing about artificial intelligence is that it lacks artifice and therefore intelligence."

Jean Baudrillard

Artificial intelligence is the next big thing for hedge funds seeking an edge!

"Computer-assisted trading is nothing new. But Aidyia and other firms—including hedge fund giants Bridgewater Associates and Renaissance Technologies—hope to create intelligent software that can teach itself to adapt to changing market conditions, without guidance or instruction from humans..."

http://qz.com/389647/artificial-intelligence-is-the-next-big-thing-for-hedge-funds-seeking-an-edge/

Artificial Intelligence Is Already Here, But Is Your Business Ready For It?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theyec/2015/04/06/artificial-intelligence-is-already-here-but-is-your-business-ready-for-it/

7 Top Futurists Make Some Pretty Surprising Predictions About What The Next Decade Will Bring

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/12/futurists-next-10-years_n_7241210.html

Dr. James Canton, CEO of the San Francisco-based Institute for Global Futures and author of "Future Smart: Managing the Game-Changing Trends that will Transform Your World:", predicts that in the following period Artificial intelligence will become just as smart and smarter than humans

"The dawn of artificial intelligence"

Powerful computers will reshape humanity’s future. How to ensure the promise outweighs the perils

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21650543-powerful-computers-will-reshape-humanitys-future-how-ensure-promise-outweighs

Dear friends, this is very fine blog about the future of AI and Robotics! For example,you may see automated kitchen system, able to scan and replicate the movements of a human chef to produce recipes...as well as many other resources.

http://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/ai-robots-blog.htm#.VVWm2o6qp4_

"Thinking is a human feature. Will AI someday really think? That's like asking if submarines swim. If you call it swimming then robots will think, yes.”

Noam Chomsky

 What Every Engineer Should Know about Artificial Intelligence

William A. Taylor

"The popular definition of artificial intelligence research means designing computers that think as people do, and who needs that? There is no commercial reason to duplicate human thought because there is no market for electronic people, although it might be nice if everyone could have a maid and butler. There are plenty of organic people, and computer vendors can't compete with the modern low-cost technology used in making people."

Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk

"The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else."

Eliezer Yudkowsky

In my opinion, any true intelligence can never be bad, not even if artificial, Dear Darko.

Let us go further. How about the issue of ethics and AI? Four leading researchers share their concerns and solutions for reducing societal risks from intelligent machines.

http://www.nature.com/news/robotics-ethics-of-artificial-intelligence-1.17611

Robot ethics

Morals and the machine

As robots grow more autonomous, society needs to develop rules to manage them

http://www.economist.com/node/21556234

Robot Morality: Can a Machine Have a Conscience?

By Brian Green

http://www.scu.edu/ethics/conscience/robot-morality.html

Computer ethics - International conference at University of Delaware  to explore philosophical issues in computing! "From battlefield robots and military drones to self-driving cars and so-called “love machines,” an international conference hosted by the University of Delaware will explore ethical issues involving information technology and artificial intelligence..."

http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2015/jun/ethics-computing-061115.html

Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence

Nick Bostrom

http://www.nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai.html

Computer Games and Artificial Intelligence

http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~ddd/cap6635/Fall-97/Short-papers/22.htm

Would it ever happen? Humans Marrying Robots?!

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-marrying-robots/

How Robots Work

Robots and Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is arguably the most exciting field in robotics. It's certainly the most controversial: Everybody agrees that a robot can work in an assembly line, but there's no consensus on whether a robot can ever be intelligent.

http://science.howstuffworks.com/robot6.htm

AI, Robotics, and the Future of Jobs

http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/08/06/future-of-jobs/

With a true understanding of man has created a total of robots capable of doing the duties ordered him. Much work is done by robots or artificial intelligence to give free man to the natural intelligence  

My previous post: Marriage is going to realize before 2050 - Marriage between human and robot! "An artificial intelligence researcher predicts that robotics will make such dramatic advances in the coming years that humans will be marrying robots by the year 2050.

Robots will become so human-like -- having intelligent conversations, displaying emotions and responding to human emotions -- that they'll be very much like a new race of people..."

http://www.computerworld.com/article/2539809/computer-hardware/researcher--humans-will-love--marry-robots-by-2050.html

Love + Sex with Robots - David Levy book! "A leading expert in artificial intelligence, David Levy argues that the entities we once deemed cold and mechanical will soon become the objects of real companionship and human desire. He shows how automata have evolved and how human interactions with technology have changed over the years. Levy explores many aspects of human relationships—the reasons we fall in love, why we form emotional attachments to animals and virtual pets, and why these same attachments could extend to love for robots. Levy also examines how society's ideas about what constitutes normal sex have changed—and will continue to change—as sexual technology becomes increasingly sophisticated.

Shocking, eye-opening, provocative, and utterly convincing, Love and Sex with Robots is compelling reading for anyone with an open mind."

http://www.harpercollins.com/9780061359804/love-and-sex-with-robots

When A Robot Comes Knocking On The Door

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/27/162083520/when-a-robot-comes-knocking-on-the-door

Artificial intelligence is simply a creation of man. It represents a small part of its capacity for creativity because we do not know the limits of human intelligence. The different types of robots created by man is the reflection of a living natural intelligence that makes things happen

Will discrimination against robots become an issue soon?

Should We Be Afraid of Robots?

http://www.newsweek.com/2015/02/20/case-against-artificial-intelligence-305038.html?piano_t=1

Man made tools couldn't rise to be man, they belong to useful objects with a preemption date, who throws them in the waste bag

Apocalypse or golden age: What machine intelligence will do to us

http://venturebeat.com/2014/12/23/apocalypse-or-golden-age-what-machine-intelligence-will-do-to-us/

AI’s Next Frontier: Machines That Understand Language! 

http://www.wired.com/2015/06/ais-next-frontier-machines-understand-language/

'I Believe That It Will Become Perfectly Normal for People to Have Sex With Robots'

http://www.newsweek.com/2014/10/31/sex-robots-278791.html

David Levy In 2007 published a book called Love, Sex and Robots which claims that human and robot sex will be a common practice by 2050."I believe that loving sex robots will be a great boon to society. There are millions of people out there who, for one reason or another, cannot establish good relationships."

Bill Gates Fears A.I., But A.I. Researchers Know Better

http://www.popsci.com/bill-gates-fears-ai-ai-researchers-know-better

Dear Colleagues,

Good Day,

One step closer to artificial intelligence: Scientists create cells replicating human brain processes.

Australian scientists have for the first time developed an electronic long-term memory cell that mimics the work of a human brain. Researchers say the discovery is a step towards creating a bionic brain.

Researchers from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) have created the world’s first electronic multi-state memory cell which mirrors the brain’s ability to simultaneously process and store multiple strands of information, according to the university’s press-release.

The groundbreaking discovery was recently published in the materials science journal Advanced Functional Materials.

The device which is 10,000 times thinner than a human hair is a “vital step towards creating a bionic brain,” the scientists said.

Please, See the attached site for detail:

http://rt.com/news/257993-artificial-intelligence-scientists-brain/

Dear @Darko, here are the latest news form Google about AI research results. 

"This week, Google released a research paper chronicling one of its latest forays into artificial intelligence.

Researchers at the company programmed an advanced type of “chatbot” that learns how to respond in conversations based on examples from a training set of dialogue."

Read the conversation between human and machine. Like Q&A.

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-tests-new-artificial-intelligence-chatbot-2015-6

A Neural Conversational Model - this is a research paper which was mentioned in my previous post.

"In this paper, we show that a simple language model based on the seq2seq framework can be used to train a conversational engine. Our modest results show that it can generate simple and basic conversations, and extract knowledge from a noisy but open-domain dataset. Even though the model has obvious limitations, it is surprising to us that a purely data driven approach without any rules can produce rather proper answers to many types of questions. However, the model may require substantial modifications to be able to deliver realistic conversations..."

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.05869v2.pdf

And the Pulitzer goes to… a computer

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jun/28/computer-writing-journalism-artificial-intelligence