Wednesday 16 November 2011

AI Happenings November 2011

Artificial intelligence joins the fossil hunt
New Scientist
Artificially intelligent software that scans satellite images of potential dig sites could greatly increase the number of fossils unearthed. Success in finding bones boils down to a lot of luck, says Robert Anemone of Western Michigan University in ...


Artificial intelligence robot which can help round the home is unveiled
Telegraph.co.uk
A new human-shaped robot that can take a drinks order, open a thermos flask, and pour out a juice has been unveiled by Japanese scientists. It can even spell out its own name in sign language Honda Motor Co.'s revamped human-shaped robot "Asimo" uses ...


Amazon Artificial Intelligence System: Company Prepares to Compete Against ...
Christian Post
By Vincent Funaro | Christian Post Reporter Apple established itself as one of the first companies to have an efficient artificial intelligence tasking system available on its iPhone 4S with Siri. Now Amazon seems to express interest in competing with ...


Miniature robot rides bicycle like a pro
Gizmag
"I'm interested in artificial intelligence, and in that context, I think intelligence and skills have equal value," said Yamaguchi. "So my purpose in creating this robot was to pursue intelligence from the skills side. While I was thinking of suitable ...


Artificial Intelligence Took America's Jobs And It's Going To Take A Lot More
Business Insider
The scary new dimension is artificial intelligence, which could replace as many as 50 million jobs according to a recent book by software entrepreneur Martin Ford. Because let's face it, Siri or something like Siri has more potential than your ...


Artificial Intelligence - Elsevier
Artificial Intelligence, which commenced publication in 1970, is now the generally accepted premier international forum for the publication of...    

Tuesday 4 October 2011

AI Happenings October 2011

Artificial Intelligence Is Coming to the iPhone, And It's Going to Change ...
Mashable
However, your phone is about to become a whole lot smarter, thanks to Apple and its new artificial intelligence Assistant. The hype surrounding Tuesday's Apple iPhone event is at an all-time high. But most of the hype is focused on the hardware that ...


Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Next Super Trader?
The Open Press (press release)
(OPENPRESS) October 3, 2011 -- "Artificial Intelligence (AI): The Next Super Trader?" was a presentation by Mr. Adam Afshar, Chief Executive Officer and President, Hyde Park Global. He will speak podium at Golden Networking's High Frequency Trading ...


The Rise of Artificial Intelligence Personal Assistant
Huffington Post UK
Artificial Intelligence Assistants are at last making a proper entrance. Most of you will remember Clippit, that annoying Microsoft Office paperclip, and it's quite amazing how far we've come in the space of just a few years. There's a rising number of ...


RoboRat: Israelis Create Rodent With Robot Brain
ABC News (blog)
In the technological journey towards artificial intelligence, Israeli researchers have made the next giant leap: the RoboRat. Matti Mintz of Tel Aviv University in Israel and his fellow scientists have built a rodent-sized artificial cerebellum that ...


Robots mania
Washington Post
The robot Aila (Artificial Intelligence Lightweight Android) is pictured at the CeBIT IT fair on March 3 in Germany. Alia not only has the ability to recognize objects, but it can also lift them. The IT model robot is displayed at iRobot headquarters ...


Personal Artificial Intelligence - Free software downloads and ...
Personal Artificial Intelligence P.A.I. for short is a project which emulates a human chat (simple terms it emulates you friends on msn so to speak). At the moment ...

     

Wednesday 28 September 2011

AI News on the Web 28 Sept 2011

Searching for New Ideas
MIT Technology Review
Google's head of research explains why artificial intelligence is crucial to the search company's future. By Tom Simonite If anyone can preview the future of computing, it should be Alfred Spector, Google's director of research. ...


High hopes for AI in monitoring elderly
Stuff.co.nz
Installing artificial intelligence in houses will be trialled by a Massey University academic in a bid to support older people living alone. The trial comes after the lonely death of Wellington pensioner Michael Clarke. Mr Clarke, 88, was found dead in ...


Leader of Investment Shop Based on Artificial Intelligence at High Frequency ...
SBWire (press release)
Hyde Park Global Investments is a 100% robotic investment and trading firm based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The system is built primarily on Genetic Algorithms (GA) and other Evolutionary models to identify mispricings, arbitrage and patterns in ...


Researchers from MIT Work on Building Robotic Motion-Planning System
AZoRobotics
By Andy Choi The researchers at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) of MIT are working developing algorithms for a new robotic motion-planning system. ...


How the Yahoo! homepage predicts your clicks
Register
In the summer of 2008, at an artificial intelligence confab deep in Silicon Valley, Yahoo! senior research scientist Deepak Agarwal revealed that the web giant was using automated algorithms to select news stories on its famous front page. ...


Blood Sugar Decrease And Boredom Up Car Accidents
ThirdAge
The Autonomos team is part of the Artificial Intelligence Group of the Free University Berlin. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) Lower blood sugar and boredom occur while drivers, like the nearly 80 percent of drivers on British roads, fail to take sufficient ...


New mathematical model to enable web searches for meaning
PhysOrg.com
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new theory of meaning has the potential to revolutionise many artificial intelligence technologies and enable web searches that interpret the meaning of queries, according to its developer, a computer scientist at the University of ...


Singularity Summit in NYC to Explore Historic Watson Victory
Next Big Future
This Singularity Summit line-up this year features a mix of 25 speakers from numerous fields, with a central focus on robotics and artificial intelligence, in particular the victory of the IBM computer Watson in Jeopardy! this February. ...

       

Tuesday 20 September 2011

AI Happenings September 2011

Japanese firm develops 'artificial intelligence chat robots'
BCS
A Japanese company has invented the world's first artificial intelligence "chatbots" designed to converse with English language students. Education company SpeakGlobal revealed its 'chat robots' use high-speed speech recognition technology which ...


Autoficial intelligence (2)
The Economist (blog)
AutoNOMOS, part of the Artificial Intelligence Group of Berlin's Free University, has been working on autonomous cars since 2006. MadeinGermany is its most advanced vehicle yet. Watching it navigate the ten kilometres from the Brandenburg Gate to west ...


Universal intelligence: One test to rule them all
New Scientist
The idea for a universal test has emerged from the study of artificial intelligence and a desire for better ways to measure it. Next year, the most famous test for gauging the smarts of machines will be widely celebrated on the 100th anniversary of the ...


Top honour for AI researcher
Massey News (press release)
Professor Hans Guesgen has been made a senior member of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. He is one of only nine members worldwide to be given the honour. Senior Member status was established to recognise members of the ...


Critics question Watson's new role in health care
Louisville Courier-Journal
IBM, via AP What it is: An artificial-intelligence computer system that can answer questions posed in natural language. Maker: IBM Corp. spent four years developing the computer and named it for the company founder, Thomas Watson. ...


Gwyn: The emerging age of joblessness
Toronto Star
What's certain is that this kind of advance in artificial intelligence, or of machines performing intellectual functions once exclusive to human beings, will continue and will reduce the need to use humans to do such work. Week by week, the headlines ...


Whenever you Need to say Important Things to Your Customers, do it Precisely
San Francisco Chronicle (press release)
The traditional, intent - based, Artificial Intelligence recognition engine helped to understand shoppers' questions and provide with instant answers. While InteliWISE software tools can be used in this role, the latest engagement tools - triggers- ...
  

Tuesday 6 September 2011

AI News on the Web 7 Sept 2011

Automated marking takes teachers out of the loop
New Scientist
But can we trust the artificial intelligence that powers them to make appropriate judgements? Two new real-world tests suggest that it can work surprisingly well. In one experiment, conducted at the University of Central Florida in Orlando between ...
   

One small leap for running robots
ABC Science Online
Harold Roberto Martinez Salazar and Juan Pablo Carbajal of the University of Zurich's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory report their mathematical analysis in a recent issue of Physics Review E. "The hot question is how we make robots that can run as ...


Tucson tech: UA team out to expose 'phishers'
Arizona Daily Star
A team led by current and former members of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the UA's Eller College of Management has developed a prototype system to automatically detect fake sites. When tested against other existing, commercial systems, ...


Strongsteam - an online AI API
iProgrammer
If you are working in the area of artificial intelligence, a new web API may be of interest. Strongsteam is currently a closed alpha that is under development with the aim of eventually providing the means to carry out tasks such as extracting text ...


Three MICE wins to boost VIC coffers by A$40m
micebtn (blog)
Melbourne, Australia has secured the rights to host three world-class business events - the inaugural World Prostate Cancer Congress in 2013; 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence in 2017 and the 27th Congress of the ...


Andrew Lo joins CSAIL
MIT News
Economist hopes to merge the fields of computer science and artificial intelligence with research on financial markets and risk. MIT chemical engineers have designed particles that can detect microRNA inside living cells. Tiny particles that measure ...

Wednesday 31 August 2011

AI Happenings August 2011

Some of the interesting news related to AI this month:

Chatbots Talking To Each Other Is Mesmerizing (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
Cleverbot, one of their artificial intelligence programs, is designed to emulate and engage in conversation with humans. The designers hope that the Cleverbot can so successfully simulate the experience of talking to a person that it will baffle judges ...


'Artificial Intelligence' DJ to Debut on HD2 Channel
Radio World
Meet “Denise,” an artificial intelligence DJ who could be the next-gen of voice-tracking. The software program debuts Wednesday from 1 to 4 pm Central on the HD2 channel of KROV(FM), San Antonio, Texas. Listeners can hear the program using the ...


Animoto, Kodak partner to breathe life into photos
CNET
For those unfamiliar with Animoto, the site/service takes your photos and video clips and edits them together into a single movie using its Cinematic Artificial Intelligence. The best part is that little is required from the user beyond uploading files ...


Faqden, Using MIT Artificial Intelligence Research, Aims to Turn Mobile Phone ...
Xconomy
IntelliVocab works by using research from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and MIT Web Semantics Labs to profile users to figure out how advanced they are already in their vocabulary, says founder Irfan Mohammed. ...


Robot teaches English as Second Language
Pasadena Star-News
Lee is one of four finalists in the 2011 Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence. (Sarah Reingewirtz, Staff photographer) PASADENA - Say "How do you do" to Mike and Michelle, face-to-face tutors for English learners. They'll correct your grammar, ...


Kyield Founder Receives Artificial Intelligence Patent for Data Optimization ...
TMC Net
By Rajani Baburajan Kyield, a provider of technologies to improve performance in the computing environment, announced that its founder and CEO Mark Montgomery received an artificial intelligence patent (#8005778) titled “Modular System for Optimizing ...
    

Tuesday 23 August 2011

AI News on the Web 24th August 2011

IBM To Develop Computers That Can Issue a Tsunami Warning, Spot Spoiled Food
International Business Times
IBM continues to dominate the field of artificial intelligence with the development of "cognitive computers" that can learn and make decisions -- but the company insists it is not trying to simulate an actual human brain. "Each neuron in the brain is a ...


Problem-Solving Robot Swarm Goes After Our Books
Escapist Magazine
Created by artificial intelligence researcher Marco Dorigo of Belgium's Université Libre de Bruxelles, the "Swarmanoid" is a team of specialized robots designed to work together to solve environmental problems. The team is made up of three separate ...


This robot uses artificial intelligence to paint based on the sounds it hears
Geek.com
Benjamin Grosser, an artist and composer, decided to explore artificial intelligence and art. He created the Interactive Robotic Painting Machine to see what a robot is capable of. A piece of canvas sits in between two trays of paint. ...


AHRA: Can NASA scheduling software help reduce staff overtime?
DOTmed.com
by Brendon Nafziger, DOTmed News Associate Editor University of Utah Healthcare researchers say an artificial intelligence program developed by a former NASA computer scientist helped organize its interventional radiology department, cutting staff ...

Wednesday 17 August 2011

Malay Chatbot - Bot Bahasa Melayu

A chatbot, chatter robot, chatterbot or chat bot is a computer program designed to simulate an intelligent conversation with one or more human users via auditory or textual methods, primarily for engaging in small talk. (Wikipedia)

Chatbot4U is the only website where anyone can create an infinite amount of chatbots and share them online or on instant messengers.

I try to create one chatbot that can speaks Malay language in the hope that one day its own Malay knowledge will grow over time. Try it!

AI News on the Web 18 August 2011

Robot 'Mission Impossible' wins video prize
New Scientist
Footage of the experiment, conducted by Marco Dorigo at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, and colleagues, won the video competition at the Conference on Artificial Intelligence in San Francisco earlier this week. It's a simple demonstration, ...

Virtual and Artificial, but 58000 Want Course
New York Times
A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more than 58000 students around the globe — a class nearly four times the size of Stanford's ...

Smartphones of the Future: How They Will Look, What They Will Do
PCWorld
Flexible designs, augmented reality, quad-core processors, and even some artificial intelligence are just a few of the features you can expect smartphones to have in the next five to ten years. By Ginny Mies, PCWorld As you're reading this article, ...

Technology leaps ahead with bionic prosthetic leg
abc7.com
Conventional prosthetic legs may be light and agile, but those who use them say they still feel like artificial limbs. This new bionic leg contains "artificial" intelligence. When scientists built this one, they wanted to create a leg that could think. ...

Creatures 4 Coming This Year
Inside Mac Games
The life simulation game once again features the Norns, creatures which can evolve, learn, interact, and reproduce according to their own DNA and unique artificial intelligence. 15 years after they came into the world, the little Creatures are having ...

Thursday 4 August 2011

AI News on the Web 5 August 2011

Artificial Endocrine System to Help Create World's First 'Love' Robot
International Business Times
By IBTimes Staff Reporter | July 29, 2011 3:32 AM EDT Artificial intelligence researcher Hooman Samani, from the Keio-NUS CUTE Center, has proposed a new generation of robots with the ability to love and be loved by humans. Referred to as Lovotics, ...


Futurologist: Man will Merge with Machine by 2029
International Business Times
K. Cameron Lau | Aug 01, 2011 | 2min:21sec Author, inventor, and futurologist, Ray Kurzweil believes that by the year 2029 man and machine will merge ushering in a future that will both raise standards of artificial intelligence to human levels as well ...


Tokyo Institute of Technology introduces Robot That Can Learn, Think And Act ...
AkihabaraNews
This robot can think, learn and act by itself using artificial intelligence. It is being developed by the Hasegawa Group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Using a technology called a self-replicating neural network, or SOINN(Self-Organizing ...


  

Friday 29 July 2011

Mari Berbual Dengan Cleverbot

Cleverbot adalah aplikasi web AI yang belajar bagaimana untuk meniru perbualan manusia dengan berkomunikasi dengan manusia. Ia dicipta oleh AI veteran Rollo Carpenter, yang juga mencipta Jabberwacky. Pada dekad pertama kewujudannya selepas dicipta pada tahun 1988, Cleverbot mengadakan beberapa ribu perbualan dengan Carpenter dan rakan-rakannya. Sejak dilancarkan pada web pada tahun 1997, bilangan perbualan dikatakan telah melebihi 20 juta perbualan.

Untuk menguji samada Cleverbot boleh berbahasa Melayu, saya telah cuba membuat perbualan seperti berikut: (boleh tahan juga kepintaran sistem NLP Cleverbot tersebut)

User: Siapa nama awak?

Cleverbot: Kawan saya.

User: Apa dia?

Cleverbot: Kamu.

User: Kamu boleh cakap bm?

Cleverbot: Memang boleh.

User: Buktikan...

Cleverbot: Apa yang bukan?

User: Bukti.

Cleverbot: Nak buktikan mcm mne?

User: Hahhaha.

Cleverbot: No its true.


Cleverbot conversation USF00767974

Is the bot clever?

Find out at http://www.cleverbot.com

Tuesday 26 July 2011

Berita Kepintaran Buatan dalam Malaysia

Antara berita kepintaran buatan dalam akhbar tempatan:

1. Memandu guna otak -Jangan anda tidak percaya, saintis kini juga sedang berusaha membangunkan teknologi bagaimana manusia boleh memandu kereta tanpa menggunakan tangan, sebaliknya hanya mengarahkannya melalui minda! Aplikasi dikenali sebagai BrainDriver itu akan menghubungkan otak manusia dan komputer yang membolehkan kereta dipandu tanpa perlu memegang stereng...

 2. Memanfaat kepintaran buatan menerusi teknologi semantik - Pengarah Kepintaran Buatan(Artificial Intelligent -AI) Mimos, Dr. Dickson Lukose berkata, teknologi semantik merupakan salah satu cabang AI. "Teknologi Internet yang digunakan sekarang hanya boleh menghubungkan komputer dengan komputer lain dan tidak memberikan sebarang makna kepada manusia."Bagaimanapun dalam teknologi semantik penghantar dan penerima memahami satu sama lain dengan berhubung antara satu sama lain dengan satu 'bahasa' yang sama," katanya...

3. Atasi masalah komputer guna algoritma semut - Semut merupakan serangga kecil dan hidup berkelompok. Namun begitu, haiwan yang dianggap lemah ini telah memberi satu ruang kepada para saintis untuk mencipta suatu jalan penyelesaian masalah berdasarkan perilaku semut. Koloni semut merupakan satu pasukan yang bersatu dalam apa jua aktiviti sama ada mencari makanan atau membina sarangnya. Apa yang menjadi tanda tanya ialah, bagaimana semua boleh menjumpai sumber makanannya dengan cepat? Secara faktanya, semut sentiasa mendapat jalan pintas (laluan terpendek) untuk mendapatkan sumber makanannya...

AI News on the Web 26th July 2011

Caltech researchers make strides in creating artificial intelligence
Pasadena Star-News
PASADENA - Researchers at Caltech have taken a major step toward creating artificial intelligence, not in a robot or silicon chip, but in a test-tube, college officials announced Wednesday. The researchers are the first to have made an artificial ...


FOSE 2011: IBM's Artificial Intelligence Coming to Healthcare
govWin (blog)
The company's previous artificial intelligence experiment, known as Deep Blue, had defeated world champion Gary Kasparov in a series of chess matches in 1997. Computers, in the past, hadn't been able to understand language the way humans use it. ...


Building robots that learn
CNN (blog)
The problem with the conventional approach to robotics is that it requires explicit programming for robots to carry out specific tasks, leading to a lack of autonomous, general purpose artificial intelligence, or AI. Working in collaboration with ...


UA Researchers Develop Prototype to Detect Fake Websites
UA News (press release)
That is what is driving the work of UA Artificial Intelligence Lab members who, along with a UA alumnus, have earned a top honor from MIS Quarterly for their research. As a UA doctoral candidate, Ahmed Abbasi served as a research associate for the UA ...


Next Generation Assessment: Workshop in September to Showcase Capabilities of ...
Benzinga
Today Pearson announced open registration for an event aimed at helping participants better understand and put automated scoring technology and artificial intelligence to work in measuring student achievement. Advance registration is required to ...


    

Tuesday 19 July 2011

AI Happenings July 2011

Some of the interesting news related to AI in this month:


The NSA Is Building An Artificial Intelligence System That Can Read Minds
Business Insider
The system can answer the question, 'What does X think about Y?'" These are the words of an unnamed researcher who discussed an amazing artificial intelligence system she was building at the NSA. It sounds like something right out of science fiction ...


AI Takes a Step in Language Comprehension Thanks to Gaming
TMC Net
By Chris DiMarco While artificial intelligence is probably still a ways off from posing any really threat to society, one would think that teaching a computer how to play a game that centers on global domination is still not such a great idea. ...


Cleverbot: Artificial Intelligence of the Future, or Just a Jerk?
Flip the Media
Cleverbot, an Artificial Intelligence computer program developed by Icogno Founder Rollo Carpenter in 1988 and released to the masses in 1997, “learns” from Internet users. Everything that is put into the program is catalogued and eventually repeated ...


Artificial intelligence to boost airplane safety levels
The Hindu
Researchers are developing a system based on artificial intelligence (AI) to pinpoint internal flaws in aircraft quickly and accurately that are missed otherwise. Aircraft made mostly from composite materials are already on the drawing boards of major ...

    

Thursday 14 July 2011

Gloomy Prospect for Non-AI Employees

Another reason why you should join AI revolution!

Every firm will have artificial intelligence employees

BCS - ‎Jul 12, 2011‎
In the future, every company will draw upon the assistance of artificial intelligence as employees, it has been claimed. Chief executive officer of Artificial Solutions Lawrence Flynn stated that such a conclusion can be made in light of the virtual ...
compare than ...
 
Report: Up to 10,000 Job Cuts for Cisco
July 12, 2011 9:11 AM
Networking equipment company Cisco Systems may cut as many as 10,000 jobs, or about 14 percent of its workforce to revive profit growth, according to Bloomberg.
source:

AI Is Hiring

Another reason why you should join AI:
 
Robotics Firm Plans Aggressive Hiring Initiative
July 11, 2011 9:51 AM
Applied Manufacturing Technologies (AMT), a supplier of factory automation design, engineering and process consulting services, announced a “Robotic Renaissance” hiring initiative to support continuing robotics industry growth. The program’s focus will be on placing automation engineering talent into robotic careers. AMT believes that with the recently announced $500 million Advanced Manufacturing Partnership, which features $70 million for a National Robotics Initiative, that the use of robotics in industry will see significant growth in the next few years.
source: 

Wednesday 6 July 2011

Overcoming the Challenges With AI

Computer systems ought to be an aid to the human, but as we get more creative, we delegate as much as we can to the systems. When systems aid the decision maker, great decisions can be made. When systems actually make the decisions, we have seen many "silly" decisions made simply because systems succumb to their decision algorithms instead of instincts and feelings. Artificial Intelligence is quite often understood as the computerized simulation of human thinking. However, in its current form it is based on forms of logic. We will find that the customer does not always relate to the most logical decision - as illogical as that sounds! However, this is the human way, so we must find ways to overcome this deficiency with our Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems.

It may be that we haven't quite turned the corner to the most sophisticated forms of AI. We believe we can achieve much more. Technology has not been growing in a linear form, as we believed in the past. We now have proof, based on historical growth, that technology grows exponentially. This means we can expect to see very human-like systems in the very near future. AI systems may not take the form we expect. For example, while consumers expect a neural network with many lights and microscopic transistors, researchers developed a system with a functioning animal's brain installed within as the functioning CPU. A lot of progress was made with this method of artificial decision making. With this research and other breakthroughs, all of a sudden, the attributes we thought could never be handled by an AI suddenly are. We would not have enough time to discuss each aspect of an AI system. The least we can do is look at ways these are developed and state some of the ways we can overcome the obstacles associated with these.

Too much complexity: Think of AI systems as being split into three parts. The first part would be the input (where it is fed the information used to make decisions). The second part would be what we call the "hidden node" (where the algorithm lives that will process the information and decide what the outcome will be). The third part would be the output (where it organizes and displays its decisions to the end user or connecting system).
Concerning the hidden nodes section, you can have multiple nodes. In fact, the more hidden nodes you have the more complex your AI system will be. However, if follows that if you have too many hidden nodes, the complexity can become too high, and there become too many patterns for the NN to learn. Who would think a computer could have too many patterns to learn? It is not so much a problem of CPU efficiency as it is more of an introduction of inconsistencies into your algorithms causing multiple system failures, as well as an overload in specifics, such that the system does not recognize outliers. So use less hidden nodes for a more simple or basic problem.

Memorization: You want your system to actually "learn", and not just "memorize". When it just memorizes, it is unable to properly analyze new problems or outliers. There is no need to create overly complex systems to compensate for memorization deficiencies. You can mitigate this problem by testing the system with brand new information to see if it learned anything yet. Instruct your analysts and programmers to develop algorithms that find ways to categorize brand new information and store it, but in addition, receive feedback from output, and store this (effectively learning from mistakes as humans do)

Over Learning: If you "teach" the system for too long, it can "over learn". This can cause it to get "paranoid" and see patterns there that do not truly exist. As a result, errors can start increasing at this point onwards. This would render your system useless, or leave it vulnerable to a hacker's manipulative tactics. You can mitigate this by stopping training and testing to see what point the errors stop decreasing. This is why you should spend ample time developing ways to test your system.

Local Solutions: You may receive a solution that is simply a local one. So although the solution works, it may not be the optimal solution. You can mitigate this problem by testing the solutions received to determine the best one.

Limited Capabilities: The hard truth is that your AI system can only solve problems that it is made to solve. As a result, some problems cannot be solved efficiently by the system. The good news is that it can solve problems that should!

The takeaway message is that the AI system should not completely replace the human being. If it does, the process must be basic or straightforward in nature. A system must be in place to monitor how the AI system treats outliers. Also, human review and intervention is absolutely necessary to the effectiveness of the system.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/6340165

Some Facts About AI

Artificial Intelligence is a concept that concerned people from all around the world and from all times. Ancient Greeks and Egyptians represented in their myths and philosophy machines and artificial entities which have qualities resembling to those of humans, especially in what thinking, reasoning and intelligence are concerned. Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science concerned with the study and the design of the intelligent machines. The term of "artificial intelligence", coined at the conference that took place at Dartmouth in 1956 comes from John McCarthy who defined it as the science of creating intelligent machine.

Along with the development of the electronic computers, back in 1940s, this domain and concept known as artificial intelligence and concerned with the creation of intelligent machines resembling to humans, more precisely, having qualities such as those of a human being, started produce intelligent machines. The disciplines implied by the artificial intelligence are extremely various. Fields of knowledge such as Mathematics, Psychology, Philosophy, Logic, Engineering, Social Sciences, Cognitive Sciences and Computer Science are extremely important and closely interrelated are extremely important when it comes to artificial intelligence. All these fields and sciences contribute to the creation of intelligent machines that have resemblance to human beings.

The application areas of artificial intelligence are extremely various such as Robotics, Soft Computing, Learning Systems, Planning, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Logic Programming, Natural Language Processing, Image Recognition, Image Understanding, Computer Vision, Scheduling, Expert Systems and more others. The field of artificial intelligence has recorded a rapid and spectacular evolution since 1956, researchers achieving great successes in creating intelligent machines capable of partially doing what human beings are able to do. Obviously, researchers have encountered and still encounter several problems in simulating the human intelligence. An intelligent machine must have a number of characteristics and must correspond to some particular standards. For instance, the human being is able of solving a problem faster by using mainly intuitive judgments rather than conscious judgments. Another aspect that researchers have considerably analyzed was the knowledge representation which refers to the knowledge about the world that intelligent machines must have in order to solve problems such as objects or categories of objects, properties of objects, relations between objects, relations such as those between causes and effects, circumstances, situations etc.

Moreover, another challenge for researchers in the field of artificial intelligence refers to the fact that intelligent machines must be able to plan the problems that need to be solved, to set a number of goals that must be achieved, to be able to make choices and predict actions, they must be able learn, to understand the human languages and to display emotions and be able to understand and predict the behavior of the others. Artificial intelligence is an extremely challenging and vast field of knowledge which poses many questions and generates many controversies but also solves many problems that technology and industry are confronting with today and may offer many answers in the future.

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/6055118

Tuesday 5 July 2011

Artificial Intelligence Undergraduate Course at FCSIT, University of Malaya

The challenging world of Artificial Intelligence (AI) does not deter UM from offering the Bachelor of Computer Science degree (major in Artificial Intelligence) programme to its graduates. Even the definition of AI is still a matter of disagreement among experts in its field. The argument is that a sufficient meaning of intelligent behaviour is yet to be agreed on. Some argues that intelligence as the ability to cope with change and to incorporate new information in order to improve performance and existing technologies don\'t appear capable of this. While some claim that artificial intelligence is that which mimics human reasoning or sensing.

Whatever the definition may be, this programme prepares students with the proficiency and technical skills needed to successfully function in the world of AI, be it in the development or management stage.
"Artificial intelligence (AI) involves utilization of computer power to augment human thinking and usage of a computer\'s artificial intelligence to understand how humans think and simulate aspects of human behaviour. As AI is the study of computations that make it possible to perceive, reason, learn, plan and act, advanced and useful techniques can be developed to solve difficult problems."
Former Student


Visit FCSIT, University of Malaya for more information.