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 ...