Tuesday 27 March 2012

AI Happenings (28/3/2012)

Artificial Intelligence? I'll Say. Why Computers Can't Joke
BusinessWeek
Dr. Fill's score was good enough to finish 141st out of 600 human contestants—near the low end of the range that its creator, the artificial intelligence expert Matthew Ginsberg, had predicted. Dr. Fill, Ginsberg told the New York Times, ...
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Author Ted Bell: Artificial Intelligence Could Evolve Into Evil Reality
NewsMax.com
Best-selling author Bell told Newsmax in an exclusive interview that he chose to focus “Phantom” on what could happen if artificial intelligence were used for malign purposes, in this case by an Iranian scientist. “I look out a few years and see what I ...
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How AI: Artificial Intelligence ends in a different, better universe
io9
There are any number of examples of movies that could use the personal canon treatment, but I'd like to nominate AI: Artificial Intelligence as a first film in need of revision. There are actually a lot of good aspects to Steven Spielberg's 2001 ...
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Artificial intelligence the villain in 'Phantom'
Rankin Ledger
Somewhere in Iran, a brilliant scientist has created the first artificial intelligence device. He's been testing its capabilities, as in, controlling other machines and killing people. The AI, or Perseus, as it calls itself, is ready to go solo and ...
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ICAP Patent Brokerage Announces Three Patent Portfolios for Auction Disclosing ...
MarketWatch (press release)
The first portfolio is for artificial intelligence for autonomic monitoring and control of devices in a computerized network environment. It discloses techniques for collective interactions of autonomic entities, which includes transmitting ...
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David L. Waltz, Computer Science Pioneer, Dies at 68
New York Times
The 3-D research was seminal in the fields of computer vision and artificial intelligence. Known as “constraint propagation,” the technique is now used in industry for solving problems like route scheduling, package routing and construction scheduling.
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Thursday 15 March 2012

AI Happenings March 2012

Artificial intelligence project builds video games from scratch
Ars Technica
By Megan Geuss | Published March 11, 2012 2:32 PM Santa's Snowfight Escape was created by an AI system called Angelina. Santa's trying to get to that mug of hot chocolate at the top. Her name is Angelina: she runs on a heavy-duty Mac server and she's ...
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Futurist: We'll someday accept computers as human
CNN
By Brandon Griggs, CNN Kurzweil on portentous sci-fi fears about computers: "I don't see it as them vs. us" Austin, Texas (CNN) -- Any author or filmmaker seeking ideas for a sci-fi yarn about the implications of artificial intelligence -- good or bad ...
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Ray Kurzweil Debunks 'Exponential Returns' Doubters at SXSW
PC Magazine
Will artificial intelligence surpass human intelligence? Of course. Can they perform real-time native language processing? Why not? How about biomechanically extending human lifetimes by several centuries? Just hold on a few more years!
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Angelina Artificial Intelligence Builds Own Video Game
Mobile Magazine
By Leo Xavier, March 09, 2012 @ 7:21am Today's software can certainly perform magic and it's always fun to learn about new developments, especially when it is coming with endless possibilities. The picture posted alongside is not taken from a primitive ...
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IBM lends its artificial intelligence expertise to SKA project
Business Day
SQUARE Kilometre Array (SKA) SA yesterday announced a partnership with IBM that will marry the multinational technology company's artificial intelligence software with radio astronomy technology. Collaboration with industry means technological ...
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Is Intelligence Self-Limiting?
Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies
by Milan M. Ćirković by Arthur Caplan by Martine Rothblatt by Russell Blackford In science fiction novels like River of Gods by Ian McDonald [1], an artificial intelligence finds a way to boot-strap its own design into a growing super-intelligence.
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Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, Darkness 2: Artificial Intelligence Post-Mortem ...
G4 TV (blog)
Artificial intelligence in games is a bit of a misnomer. Yes, it's artificial, but no, it's not intelligent. It's still a program, following a decision gate and making choices based on pre-determined outcomes and priorities.
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Technology will really become part of your brain
Houston Chronicle
By Valentino Lucio Cyborgs and artificial intelligence are no longer only topics for science fiction. Their position in the human experience is growing and is expected to extend life and to push the limits of death. "We are the human machine ...
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Fighting Shipboard Fires with Artificial Intelligence? US Navy Tests the ...
GCaptain (press release)
The Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI) is developing the algorithms that will allow autonomous mobility and decision making by the robot. To enable natural interaction with a human team leader, the robot will have ...
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