Tuesday 24 July 2012

Artificial Intelligence News 25 July 2012

Trapit for iPad aims to fix mobile browsing with artificial intelligence
VentureBeat
That's the message Trapit co-founder Hank Nothhaft conveyed to me as he demoed his solution to the problem: a Trapit iPad application that uses artificial intelligence to deliver personalized content. Trapit is the two-year-old, venture-backed intelligent ...
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How Google Is Using Artificial Intelligence Post Penguin
Business 2 Community
The Panda algorithm launched in Feb 2011 was a unique experiment in machine learning where artificial intelligence was built into the ranking techniques adopted by the search engine to identify relevant search specific results. The ranking criteria were first ...
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Overblown-Claims-of-Failure Watch: How Not to Gauge the Success of Online ...
The Atlantic
Last summer, when Stanford announced its free, online artificial intelligence course, much of the attention celebrated just how *many* people would be able to partake of the intellectual delights normally reserved for the Stanford student body. "Virtual and ...
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The Atlantic
Artificial Irrelevance: The robots are coming
SBS
18 Jul 2012, 6:15 pm - Source: Andy Park, SBS. Share This. 34 10 1. + Comment. 5. The creation of artificial intelligence more sophisticated than a human brain, even by accident, is now a very real prospect warns Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn.
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The Morning Briefing: Artificial intelligence
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Google Glass controls and artificial intelligence detailed. Google's cautious approach to allowing people to play with Project Glass means the UI of the wearable computer is something of a mystery, but a new patent application could spill some of the secrets.
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How artificial intelligence will shape our lives
SmartPlanet.com (blog)
Ray Kurzweil, a futurist and creator of optical recognition technology — the type that converts scanned documents to editable text — predicts that we'll have “strong” artificial intelligence by 2029. He believes that “singularity,” or the point where technology ...
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Artificial intelligence to sniff out bankers' scams
New Scientist
Artificial intelligence to sniff out bankers' scams. 18 July 2012 by Paul Marks; Magazine issue 2873. Subscribe and save; For similar stories, visit the Finance and Economics Topic Guide. Dodgy dealings at banks are in the spotlight again – but AI-based ...
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Will Artificial Intelligence and Technology Automation Kill Jobs?
Midsize Insider
Andrew McAfee, a business school researcher at the Massachusetts institute of Technology who examines employment trends, contends that artificial intelligence (AI) and other advances in technology may be pushing more people out of white-collar jobs.
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Ahead of his time, Turing's pardon is now long overdue
Irish Times
UCD philosophy professor Dermot Moran considered whether his famous Turing Test of artificial intelligence could be accepted as a mark of true intelligence; Oxford mathematician (and frequent BBC science presenter) Prof Marcus du Sautoy looked at some ...
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A Texas Hold 'Em Tournament for AIs
IEEE Spectrum
Artificial Intelligence · Home Robots · Humanoid Robots · Robotics Software · Industrial Robots · Medical Robots · Military Robots · Robot Sensors & Actuators. Devices · Design · Materials · Memory · Nanotechnology · Optoelectronics · Processors. Internet ...
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Tuesday 17 July 2012

Artificial Intelligence News 17 July 2012

Today's Stupidly Effective Artificial Intelligence
Boston.com
June 23rd marked the centenary of Alan Turing, the genius who laid some of the decisively important groundwork for the computer. That's meant a lot of articles about Turing, computers, artificial intelligence, and the Turing Test. My absolute favorite ...
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Artificial intelligence becoming fantasy football reality
Network World
UK researchers ready AI software system as Premier League soccer season nears.
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Google Glass controls and Artificial Intelligence detailed
SlashGear
Google's cautious approach to allowing people to play with Project Glass means the UI of the wearable computer is something of a mystery, but a new patent.
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TomaGold Corporation Awards DIAGNOS a Contract to Use Its Artificial ...
MarketWatch (press release)
"The principal advantage in the use of the artificial intelligence is the ability to update the model regularly. The backbone of CARDS is a data mining engine which learns the signature or fingerprints of known mineralized sites, and identifies points ...
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Should we be considering coding 'kindness' into Artificial Intelligence?
TekGoblin
There are countless examples of humanity envisaging a deus ex machina come to either usher in a technological utopia or wreak unmitigated destruction. At the end of Terminator 3, artificial intelligence becomes self-aware and acts to eliminate its ...
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Scientist explores human reason, limits of artificial intelligence
PR NewsChannel (press release)
In “Understanding Understanding: Natural and Artificial Intelligence” (ISBN 1466450584), Robert Kendall Lindsay clarifies the issues surrounding the artificial intelligence deployed by robots and supercomputers. “The potential as well as the ...
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Zabaware's AI Software Used in Secret Cinema Production of Prometheus
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Zabaware's Ultra Hal Artificial Intelligence software plays the role of a space ship's computer in Secret Cinema's presentation of the box office smash hit Prometheus. Erie, PA, July 14, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Secret Cinema, created by Future Cinema, took ...
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BLOG: Humans' not-so singular status
Science News
How neuroscience and artificial intelligence challenge ideas of what makes humankind special.
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The Necessity of Mind Uploading and Machine intelligence
Science 2.0 (blog)
We cannot really predict where the evolution of artificial intelligence systems to sustain a “post-scarcity” society will take us. One thing is for sure, to try to unplug it would mean catastrophe. This is the future of an automated society, gradual ...
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Tuesday 10 July 2012

Artificial Intelligence News 10 July 2012

How Google's Artificial Intelligence Killed Plato
Huffington Post
If a self-taught computer can recognize cats, what else will it be able to recognize when computers reach WALL-E proportions.
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Riding the Wave of Artificial Intelligence
Forbes
Cognitive Code CEO, Leslie Spring, is seeing his world explode, in a good way. Since the emergence of Siri, the world has awoken to the realities of how artificial intelligence will take on a major role in the way we search and organize our lives ...
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Artificial intelligence app helps blind people
Computerworld Australia
A smartphone app is helping blind people navigate the world.
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Jeopardy Champ Watson's Creator Discusses Being a Scientist
LiveScience.com
David Ferrucci talks about the passion of scientists and more.
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Google's artificial brain learns to recognise cats
Digit
And what do you get when you give a cybernetic brain made up of 16K processors access to YouTube? It learns to recognise cats! Notice any similarity? Cats have not only taken over the interwebs but now even artificial intelligence has fallen prey to ...
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Digit
I Shall Remain's Alpha Release, Now on Desura
AMOG
... released its new content through Desura's alpha funding platform. The game includes a lengthy survival map, remastered campaign mission, better graphics and sound effects, teammates with Artificial Intelligence, and a new defense-building aspect.
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