🤖 [CITY.AI] - Expanding to Asia - launch New York AI

By City AI • Issue #23 • View online

🐴 3 great news: check it out - we are expanding to Asia | everyone reading this newsletter gets 20% off the World Summit AI tickets 🚀 | CEO of x.ai will be at our NY event on June 12!

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🔥 This weekend: great criticism on Neuralink followed by a great essay on the “misinformation” hype related to AI & “superintelligence”. 🤖 Furthermore, a reality-check on the threat of automation for certain jobs. Unfortunately if playing Go is your job, Deepmind’s AlphaGo just defeated all top 5 players in a row. But seriously, don’t expect self-driving cars anytime soon. On the business side, find out what’s going on in Boston and it’s growing potential within the AI ecosystem.

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What made buzz this week

Don't believe Neuralink

Great piece on why the billionaire is wrong that telepathy technology will be available in a few short years.

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Essay: When AI Gets too clever by half

Some experts say “superintelligence” could be the death of humanity. Others say such fears are a distraction. But this isn’t an “either/or” debate.

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When will AI pass human performance

Trucking will be computerized long before surgery, computer scientists say. And there are a couple of more surprising ones in the list.

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Applied Artificial Intelligence

AlphaGo's next move

A series of thrilling games with the world’s best players, in the country where Go originated, has been the highest possible pinnacle for AlphaGo.

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The long road for driverless cars

The rosy picture headlines paint about autonomous vehicles (AVs) as if they will be in showrooms in three or four years’ time from now.

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The AI scene in Boson

Compelling article from a VC"s point of view on the growing AI scene in Boston and it’s long term potential.

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New communities & upcoming events

We are proud to announce that we’ve recently expanded towards Cluj, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Paris, Valencia in Europe; Bangkok, Hanoi, Pune, Taipei in Asia and Sao Paulo in South America!🎈

Keep an eye on our newsletter & site(s) for more information. 😎

Upcoming events in June:

- New York AI with the founder of X.AI - June 12th - tickets.

- Paris AI pre-event - Vivatech Paris 2017 - 15-17 of June.

- Bucharest AI 2.0 - 20th June - more information soon.

- Amsterdam AI 5.0 - 29th June - more information soon.

In case you missed. AI: hype vs. application

We recently published our first article on Medium. If you are new to the community and would like to learn what we are all about, read this piece and share it in your network to help spread the word 🚀.

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