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In the past couple years, we’ve watched IBM’s supercomputer Watson mature at an alarming rate. A mere concept birthed five years ago, the cybernetic prodigy is now Jeopardy! champ and doctor in training.
Interesting proposed partnership with Liquid Robotics to turn ocean sensors into a global weather warning system. Delete the scoop?
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Interview with Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, on progress being made in artificial intelligence. Self driving cars are discussed. Delete the scoop?
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“To many, this was the dawn of a new era, where man would be dominated by machines.” But, argues Sankar, that’s not what happened, “Twenty years later, the greatest change to how we relate to computers was the iPad, not HAL.” Delete the scoop?
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In the world of technology, having one of your inventions rendered in Lego form is the equivalent of a musician being parodied by... Delete the scoop?
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A computer that can write like a human is a neat trick. But Moxie Awards finalist Narrative Science is taking the role of the robot journalist to the next level. (Robot Journalism. Delete the scoop?
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The two scientists spoke on The world festival of Science in New York, after the premiere of “The Creator: Alan Turing and the Future of Thinking Machines”, a fantastic movie about the visionary of the artificial intelligence, Alan ...
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Eddie asked: Is artificial ‘intelligence’ possible? It seems to me that no matter how sophisticated and powerful a ‘thinking’ machine nowadays could be, it is still a mere n... Delete the scoop?
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TA2 uses multiple internet-connected cameras, directional microphones, speakers and HD TV displays in the home, but most impressively it uses artificial intelligence, or AI for short. Through a unique cognitive process known ... Delete the scoop?
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Google, as well as car companies and universities are making incredible advances in the technology for self-driving cars, and that technology will enable the robot revolution. Delete the scoop?
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Artificial Intelligence: What happened to the hunt for thinking machines? By Nick Heath. May 25, 2012, 4:48 AM PDT. Takeaway: The search for thinking machines has dr. The idea of creating a sentient machine has fascinated mankind for ... Delete the scoop?
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Wired.co.ukAI uprising: humans will be outsourced, not obliteratedWired.co.ukBy Mark Piesing Forget about The Terminator, the real problem with AI (artificial intelligence) is what to do when it meets your boss or even your friends. Delete the scoop?
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2012 Loebner Prize, the first #turing test will be webcasted live! Delete the scoop?
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Machines already drive trains, check bus tickets, solve complex mathematical problems, beat humans at chess and conduct countless other tasks. Delete the scoop?
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A team of university students from the University of Auckland and Auckland University of Technology have created a smartphone app which uses artificial intelligence to help blind people make better visual sense of the world. Delete the scoop?
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A neural network created by connecting 16,000 computer processors appears to support biologists' theories on how the human brain identifies objects. Hint: It's all about the cats. Read this blog post by Steven Musil on Cutting Edge. Delete the scoop?
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Charles Darwin and Alan Turing, in their different ways, both homed in on the same idea: the existence of competence without comprehension. Delete the scoop?
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Google is celebrating mathematician Alan Turing's 100th birthday with a Turing Machine as a Google doodle. That's the latest in the list of honours for a man who was a World War II code-breaker driven to suicide for being gay. Delete the scoop?
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In The Wall Street Journal, Andy Kessler interviews computer scientist and inventor Sebastian Thrun, who says that our digital future isn't all Facebook and iPhone apps but driverless cars and other wizardry.
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The search for the origins of humanity, meeting one's maker, and discovering why we are here: Ridley Scott's latest film Prometheus tackles some big themes. But arguably the most interesting one surrounds the issue of what it is to be human, raised in the form of the android David.
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Now, new research seeks to reproduce a synapse using a single solid-state electrochemical nanodevice called a Cu2S-gap type atomic switch.
This device mimics the major features of the human memory. It also responds to the environment.
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The Canberra TimesMicrosoft gets with the robot programThe Canberra TimesIf computers and robots one day surpass humans in their learning abilities, artificial intelligence researcher Stephen Gould could help make it happen.
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Artificial intelligence has to be a siren's song for application developers that want to strike it rich. It enables revolutionary apps suchs Siri, but it's also very difficult to do well.
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Machine intelligence is improving rapidly, to the point that the scientist of the future may not even be human!
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