Wed. 03/27 - Microsoft Puts the Kibosh on April Fools' Jokes

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🗓️ 27 March 2019

⏱️ 19 minutes

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The pioneers of modern AI win the Turing Award, Apple still hasn’t fixed its keyboard problem, India shot down a satellite in space and Microsoft puts the kibosh on April Fools’ jokes. The words to search for in Google podcasts (original story from the show that will tell you how to search is here) are as follows: transom mint sponsor hobby secrecy interact evacuate gadgetry. Sponsors Tiny.website DataDogHQ.com/ridehome Links: Turing Award Won by 3 Pioneers in Artificial Intelligence (NYTimes) THE GODFATHERS OF THE AI BOOM WIN COMPUTING’S HIGHEST HONOR (Wired) Google Podcasts in-episode search is coming, shows now being fully transcribed (Android Police) Google makes emails more dynamic with AMP for Email (TechCrunch) Appl Still Hasn’t Fixd Its MacBook Kyboad Problm (WSJ) FTC announces inquiry into the privacy practices of broadband providers (The Verge) NYPD's Big Artificial-Intelligence Reveal (Governing.com) India says it has just shot down a satellite in space (MIT Technology Review) Microsoft leads the way in banning April Fools’ Day pranks (The Verge) Subscribe to the ad-free premium feed! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Wednesday, March 27th, 2019. I'm Brian McCullough. Today, the pioneers of modern AI win the Turing Award.
0:13.4	Apple still hasn't fixed its keyboard problem.
0:16.1	India shot down a satellite in space,
0:18.2	and Microsoft puts the Kaibosh on April Fool's jokes.
0:22.2	Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.
0:25.0	Three absolute Titans of Artificial Intelligence, Jeffrey Hinton, Jan Lekun, and Joshua Benjio have been
0:37.9	announced as the winners of the $1 million Turing Award for their work developing neural networks.
0:45.2	If you're not familiar with the Turing Award, it was introduced in 1966, is administered
0:50.8	by the Association for Computing Machineryinery and is often called the Nobel Prize of Computing.
0:57.0	If you're not familiar with the Professors or their work on Deep Neural Networks, quoting from the New York Times.
1:04.3	Over the past decade, the big idea nurtured
1:06.5	by these researchers has reinvented
1:08.9	the way technology is built, accelerating
1:11.4	the development of face recognition services, talking digital assistance, warehouse
1:15.5	robots, and self-driving cars. Dr Hinton is now at Google and Dr. LeCoon works for Facebook.
1:22.6	Dr. Benjio has inked deals with IBM and Microsoft.
1:27.0	What we have seen is nothing short of a paradigm shift
1:30.0	in the science, said Orin at Zonzi, the chief executive officer of the Allen Institute for
1:35.8	Artificial Intelligence in Seattle and a prominent voice in the AI community.
1:39.8	History turned their way and I am in awe.
1:43.2	Loosely modeled on the web of neurons in the human brain a neural network is a complex mathematical
1:48.1	system that can learn discrete tasks by analyzing vast amounts of data, by analyzing thousands of old phone calls
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