Wednesday 18 April 2012

Artificial Intelligence News 19 Apr 2012

Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test
Wired News
By Brandon Keim One hundred years after Alan Turing was born, his eponymous test remains an elusive benchmark for artificial intelligence. Now, for the first time in decades, it's possible to imagine a machine making the grade.
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Wired News
'Turing Test' Within Reach For Artificial Intelligence Computers?
Huffington Post
The problem was that artificial intelligence researchers eventually realized that human thought rested in large part on an intuitive "subcognitive" network of processes based off innumerable life experiences. If machines did not possess such a bedrock ...
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SOTI's BlitFire 10X technology uses Artificial Intelligence to power up a ...
MarketWatch (press release)
BlitFire 10X leverages a combination of algorithms that include Artificial Intelligence techniques to deliver faster response times and more efficient bandwidth usage. "With the new high resolution and high color devices coming onto the market, ...
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Artificial Intelligence Provides Easy Autism Diagnosis in Minutes
eMaxHealth
To remedy the backlog, time spent diagnosing and human error, researchers from Harvard Medical School have found a way using artificial intelligence to more accurately detect autism in children and establish a diagnosis in minutes rather than hours.
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Artificial Intelligence: Then and Now
Billing World (blog)
These were the words of Robert French, a cognitive scientist at the French National Center for Scientific Research, one of many researchers who just can't let the idea of artificial intelligence go. I thought instantly of those bubbles of brilliance ...
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Google's Intelligence Is More Baboon Than Human
The Atlantic
If you want to know how the world's biggest artificial intelligence operation works, allow me to direct you to this study about baboons published this week in Science. I'm serious: Google's machine learning methods bear a familial resemblance to the ...
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Artificial intelligence: time to 'invest in soft robotics'
PublicServiceEurope.com
by Rolf Pfeifer Is soft robotics a fad, or the future? If you browse robotics-related internet sites, you will find a plethora of workshops, conferences, summer schools, and publications on the topic of soft robotics. What is it, why is it becoming ...
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Can game developers save AI?
TechRadar UK
By Dan Griliopoulos 4 mins ago There's no stranger field than Artificial Intelligence. The science of making intelligent machines has never had greater potential - or seemed more insurmountably difficult. The more we study the human foundations of ...
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Professor Judea Pearl receives Alan Turing award for work on artificial ...
Daily Bruin
By ALEX MOSKOWITZ Judea Pearl remembered hiding under a staircase with seven other children when Egyptian forces launched an air-attack on Tel Aviv, Israel in 1948. “Kids, it's going to be much worse; it's only the beginning, but we are going to ...
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Wednesday 11 April 2012

Artificial Intelligence News 12 Apr 2012

The artificial intelligence behind Google Project Glass wearable computing
Daily Caller
Behind the scenes is something equally intriguing: artificial intelligence software. The augmented reality glasses, which Google co-founder Sergey Brin was spotted wearing yesterday, created a huge buzz Wednesday when Google released a video showing, ...
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Robot with Human Skeleton Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence
TIME
The audacity of this project is try to mimic the internal structures of an animal — in this case, us — all in pursuit of an even more audacious and absurd goal: artificial intelligence. As human beings, our physical interactions with the world ...
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Project Glass: Google Demo Shows Off Artificial Intelligence, Augmented ...
The Hollywood Gossip
Google's Project Glass demo, unveiled earlier this week, offers a behind the scenes look at the future of artificial intelligence, at least as the company sees it. In the demo video, the small screen on the glasses flashes information right on cue, ...
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Artificial intelligence network accurately predicts risk of PCO after phaco
OSN SuperSite
A prototype artificial intelligence network predicted posterior capsule opacification after phacoemulsification with acceptable precision, according to a study. "The reported applications in ophthalmology are glaucoma diagnosis and risk prediction, ...
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The Artificial Intelligence Economy?
Corante
The so-called "Artificial Intelligence Economy". As First, artificial intelligence and computing power are the future, or even the present, for much of manufacturing. It's not just the robots; look at the hundreds of computers and software-driven ...
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Software, Artificial Intelligence Will Be iPhone 5′s Main Focus
The iPhone 5 News Blog (blog)
The iPhone 5 will most likely ship with a larger screen and 4G LTE. But Apple's marketing focus for the next iPhone will be to show how it can completely change the way users communicate, shop, work, and have fun. If you were to audit the iPhone 5 ...
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Artificial Intelligence: Coming to a Home Near You
Construction Digital
Diane Cook, head of the CASAS Smart Home Project, seems to think artificial intelligence and 'smart' environments will continue to revolutionize our daily lives and dramatically shape the technological landscape in the future.
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Google's Project Glass: You ain't seen nothin' yet
CNET
The augmented-reality Project Glass provides a peek into Google's ambitions with artificial intelligence and how AI software could further shake up mobile computing. by Martin LaMonica April 6, 2012 8:14 AM PDT Follow @mlamonica Google co-founder ...
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Wednesday 4 April 2012

Robot News 5 Apr 2012

US scientists launch personalised robot project

The Malaysian Insider -
What if consumers could choose a custom design for a household robot and take the robot home the next day? - Picture by Felixdesign/shutterstock.

 Look Out! There Are Robots All Around

NPR -
He did meet a robot comic, hotel check-in kiosks and a robot receptionist. DAVID BRANCACCIO, BYLINE: So Tank(ph), I'm looking for Room 2111.

Life-size robots 'Come Together' for Beatles impersonation using own ...

Daily Mail -
One of the band also sings, with specially created graphics and the song lyrics appearing on a screen normally used as the robot's 'face'. Each robot was programmed to play its part, and is not controlled by a human, and every sound in the video was ...

iRobot gears up for National Robotics Week

Boston.com -
Weymouth students check out Genghis, a robot designed as a model for space exploration. Photo courtesy of iRobot. By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff For iRobot Corp.

VIDEO: Robosquirrels vs. Rattlesnakes

Patch.com -
In the lab, robot squirrels have shown how squirrels signal to snakes with heat and tail flagging. By Patch Staff Robot squirrels from UC Davis are going into rattlesnake country near San Jose, continuing a research project on the interaction between ...

Robot Masters: MHS Earns Spot at Robotics Competition Championship

TownSquareBuzz.com -
The objective: maneuver their robot to score points by shooting basketballs through four hoops. On the path to success, not everything went according to plan.

New DARPA Grand Challange For More “Human Like” Robots

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WebProNews -
The challenge consists of several parts and the winning robot has to do repairs, drive a cart, and traverse tough terrain. The eventual goal is to be able to use robots for tasks that are too dangerous for humans such as a nuclear disaster or a fire.

Robots aren't just Sci-Fi

Waynesville Daily Guide -
That technology has come to today's military and Fort Leonard Wood has established a Robot University. Robot University or the Robotic Systems Project Office will make its home with the 1st Engineer Brigade where soldiers will be able to receive ...

US Navy develop creepy firefighting robot

Telegraph.co.uk -
Scientists from the US Naval Research Laboratory are working on a firefighting robot which they hope will tackle blazes on-board military ships.

BR robotics team stages comeback

Taunton Daily Gazette -
The TJ2 team struggled with its robot design this year, Calef said. The robot was “just too tall and cumbersome” to do what was asked of it.

Dancing Robot Has Two Legs and Fiberglass Springs

LiveScience.com -
Hurst is building a two-legged robot designed to move over uneven ground as skillfully as any human. The Oregon State University professor's current project, ATRIAS, has fiberglass springs - the same kind used in archery bows - that work as tendons do.

Time-lapse vid shows Qbo robot assembly

CNET -
Powered by an open-source Linux platform, Qbo is designed to be a communications robot that's part of our everyday environment.

Robot with Human Skeleton Steps Toward Artificial Intelligence

TIME -
It is an anthropomimetic robot which, apparently, means it “imitates not just the human form, but also the biological structures and functions that enable and constrain perception and action.

Titanic 3D Director James Cameron Mariana Trench Expedition Inspires DIY ...

Forbes -
I also find it profoundly game-changing for any do-it-yourself (DIY) underwater robot/vessel creator. We may not see the underwater ROV (remotely operated vehicle) inventor designing a craft of this shape any time soon, but we likely will see the ...

One More Thing: How to cause the robot apocalypse

TechRadar UK -
But we still shudder a little when a robot expert starts talking up flatpack robots and allowing people to manufacture their own fit-for-purpose automatons.

State-of-the-Art Murata Boy Robot to Visit Mouser Electronics

Interconnectionworld -
The amazing Murata Boy robot will visit Mouser Electronics on Thursday, April 5th. The famous, self-balancing robot stands at 19.5 inches tall, weighs 11 pounds, and rides a fully-functional bicycle.

Local university introduces dancing robot

VietNamNet Bridge -
VietNamNet Bridge - A Vietnamese university has combined with a private firm to manufacture a dancing robot, named Roohex. Roohex is the first version of a type of entertaining robots which are manufactured by the Mechanics-Electronics Faculty of the ...

Julie Newmar put her talents to good use as a robot on 'My Living Doll'

Kansas City Star -
By SUSAN KING LOS ANGELES - Two years before she became the object of young men's fantasies as Catwoman on the ABC series "Batman," Julie Newmar starred as a shapely robot named Rhoda on the 1964-65 CBS sitcom "My Living Doll.

Printable Home Robot in the Works

The Mark -
The idea is to allow people to go to a printing store and print their own origami robot to do their bidding. The project won't be ready for at least five years, but the team has already developed prototypes for a gripper and 6-legged robot that can ...

This Week in Co-Op: Late Night Robot Apocalypsin'

Co-Optimus.com -
Nuts rain down from the sky as the air is filled with bullets, rockets, grenades, and all sorts of robot body parts. It's incredibly more chaotic than normal mode, and markedly more difficult than the "Hard" setting.