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 ... See all stories on this topic » VentureBeat

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic » 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. See all stories on this topic »

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. See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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. See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »