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- ...
  

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