In this edition, the top news starts with:

A South African university is working on an AI system designed to analyze causation.

https://phys.org/news/2018-06-artificial-intelligence-causation.html

Ushering in the police state and big brother, the next frontier is police and surveillance drones.  Look to the AI Machine Lord overwatch in your neighborhood for a safer and more secure society…

https://slate.com/technology/2018/06/axon-and-dji-are-teaming-up-to-make-surveillance-drones-and-the-possibilities-are-frightening.html

A confused peasant seems to think he can go up against the great and almighty Google… something about open source and Google patenting it…

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/06/inventor-says-google-is-patenting-work-he-put-in-the-public-domain/

CA Research Scientists are helping the machine overlords take humanity by surprise, by telling everyone real AGI is decades away…

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/science/ai-matching-human-intelligence-still-decades-away-ca-research-scientists/articleshow/64527972.cms

The story of how the DOD and Google got together over AI was released

https://www.defenseone.com/technology/2018/06/heres-how-google-pitched-ai-tools-special-operators-last-month/148873/

Affectiva is pushing the state of the art in emotion recognition by machine learning from human values…

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/tech/affective-computing/

Hitachi rules Bing AI ads and even shows up on Google AI ads but IBM Watson still tops Google.

Lastly, the Singularity Index or S.I. is down slightly at 1566.34, proving we are going no where fast…

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