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 ...