Machine learning just got more human with Google’s RankBrain

 " One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction". – Nathan Bateman in Ex Machina


Ex Machina, a Hollywood blockbuster made on a $15 million budget, tells the story of a programmer who is invited by his employer, the eccentric billionaire Nathan Bateman who built a fictional search engine called Blue Book, to administer the Turing test to an android with artificial intelligence, which essentially determines whether a computer can trick a human into believing she is having a conversation with another human.
Mike Murphy, a Quartz reporter covering the future of technology and AI, wrote this his article A search engine could become the first true artificial intelligence at the time the movie came out:

Everything in our online life is indexed. Every idle tweet, status update, or curious search query feeds the Google database. The tech giant recently bought a leading artificial-intelligence research outlet, and it already has a robotics company on its books. So what if Google, or Facebook, or any of the companies we entrust our information to, wanted to use our search histories to create an artificially intelligent robot?

Google’s self-driving car project is one step closer to market w/ hire of ex-Airbnb exec

It feels like Google/Alphabet’s self-driving car project has been at a bit of a yellow light lately, with the recent departure of its technical lead & director Chris Urmson and other key members being the biggest sign of trouble. Now, Reuters reports that the Mountain View company has hired ex-Airbnb executive Shaun Stewart as “a director of the self-driving car project” (albeit not a replacement for Urmson), and that his role will be “to help commercialize Google’s self-driving technology.”
Shaun Stewart is joining Google as a director of the self-driving car project, spokesman Johnny Luu said on Friday.
Stewart’s role will be to help commercialize Google’s self-driving technology, which has been in development for more than seven years and has seen an increased pace of activity over the last 12 months.

It seems Google is getting nervous about the project’s seeming inability to come up with an actual business plan, and rightfully so. The Information has reported in the past that the company has been struggling to find an avenue for revenue, saying that Google is juggling a variety options that include licensing the tech to struggling automakers and entering the ride sharing business.
And as Reuters notes, Stewart’s job seems to be to figure that out:

Stewart is an experienced technology executive specializing in building and scaling businesses. He joins Google from Airbnb where he set up the company’s vacation rentals business. Prior to that, he was chief executive of Jetsetter, a company that was acquired by TripAdvisor.

This comes not long after Google formed partnership with Fiat Crysler to make 100 self-driving minivans, something that is reportedly “inconsequential” and nothing more than the automobile company getting “a seat at the table” with Google. We did learn recently, however, why Google chose to go with the Chrysler Pacifica minivan: an Alphabet engineer says that its electronic doors would be necessary for ride sharing applications. Maybe that’s the avenue Google has chosen.
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TOP FIVE FACEBOOK COOL TRICKS AND TIPS YOU NEED TO KNOW.

There are really cool and simple tricks on the Facebook you operate daily that you might not yet know. Well its good you are here now, we are going to learn 5 cool tricks that will make your Facebook experience more lively and fun filled.

TIP 1: APPEARING IN OFFLINE MODE FOR SELECTED FRIENDS

Well for some you with thousands and hundreds of friends may have some friends that will really want to chat with you when they see you online but by then you might be busy with one thing or the other and would not want to annoy your friends by not answering them well you can make yourself appear as if you are offline in other to avoid those messages. This is what you will do:

Click setting gear option on chat box > go to Advanced Settings> Choose your friends to blacklist  and that’s all.

TIP 2: INSERTING SPECIAL SYMBOL IN FACEBOOK

Although this is mainly for PC or Laptop users but as we all know we can insert nice symbols and smilies in Facebook chat and status update. Here is just a simple method of doing that:

On your keyboard press Alt + (any number)e.g. Alt + 3 shows “Heart”

TIP 3: INSERTING PROFILE PICTURES ON CHAT OR COMMENT BOXES

Do you know that you can insert any bodies current profile picture in your chat box? All you just need is the Facebook username of that person then you put it this way [[username]] e.g. you want to put the profile picture of ameh.samuel.102 (NB: This is the person’s username) you will put it this way [[ameh.samuel.102]]. That’s it.

TIP 4: DOWNLOADING OF YOUR FRIENDS PHOTO ALBUM

It is possible for you to download your friends’ entire photos in His/Her album on Facebook and view it offline. You just need this to do it Photo grabber or PicknZip. Any of the aforementioned two options will help you get your friends photo from his/her album on Facebook.

TIP 5: SCHEDULING OF YOUR FACEBOOK POST

You can schedule your Facebook posts by choosing a specific date and time. In this process you can choose a time in which most of your friends are online.  To do this, you need to check for a Clock symbol that is usually at the left-hand side of your status update. Click on it and choose the date and time you want the status to be updated and you’ve done it.

Man of God with Highest Follower all over the world Releases the Declarations for 2014 from God

 
These are the prophecies for 2014 by Pastor E.A Adeboye of RCCG

GENERAL/ INDIVIDUAL:
1. God says a divine promise of more than a decade ago will begin to find fulfillment.
2. Someone can expect a prominent divine visitation that will radically alter the course of his or her life
3. Someone will have the first taste. There will be quite a few narrow escapes of tragedies
NIGERIA
1. The future of Nigeria will be determined this year and not in 2015
2. The equation at the beginning of the year will be different from equation at the year end. Therefore, don’t jump into conclusion.
INTERNATIONAL
1. There will be major breakthroughs in medicine and science
2. Pray against noisy highly destructive storms
3. Pray against monumental fire outbreaks.
NB: Other prophecies are not for public consumption, says the G.O