Tuesday 25 September 2012

Artificial Intelligence News 26 September 2012

Using artificial intelligence to chart the universe
Phys.Org
(Phys.org)—Astronomers in Germany have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm to help them chart and explain the structure and dynamics of the universe around us with unprecedented accuracy. The team, led by Francisco Kitaura of the Leibniz ...
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First artificial intelligence to chart the universe reported (Video)
Examiner.com
Francisco Kitaura of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam led a team of astrophysicists and computer programmers in the development of the first artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that accurately plots the content of the Milky Way and ...
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Wozniak eager for artificial intelligence
SBS
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says artificial intelligence (AI) is the next technological frontier. On the day the iPhone 5 was released in Australia, with some hiccups, Mr Wozniak told business leaders in Brisbane that AI was the next logical step ...
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Artificial Intelligence to Chart Universe
OpEdNews
View Article Stats Promoted to Headline (H4) on 9/24/12: Artificial Intelligence to Chart Universe Quicklink submitted by Daniel Geery (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark). Tell A Friend. SAVE AS FAVORITE ...
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Adam Wheeler's Artificial Intelligence
Harvard Crimson
By forging his SAT scores, plagiarizing essays, and crafting phony transcripts from Andover and MIT, Adam B. Wheeler faked his way into Harvard. Once he got to the College, he didn't stop his cons—he snagged more than $45,000 in prizes and ...
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Steve Wozniak says artificial intelligence (AI) is the next technological ...
NEWS.com.au
Steve Wozniak says artificial intelligence (AI) is the next technological frontier. Source: Supplied. APPLE co-founder Steve Wozniak says artificial intelligence (AI) is the next technological frontier. On the day the iPhone 5 was released in Australia ...
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Wozniak hungry for AI era
NEWS.com.au
On the day the iPhone 5 was released in Australia, with some hiccups, Mr Wozniak told business leaders in Brisbane that AI was the next logical step. "We've made very tiny strides so far in the area of artificial intelligence and yet that really is ...
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Wednesday 19 September 2012

Artificial Intelligence News 20 September 2012

How artificial intelligence is changing our lives
Christian Science Monitor
That's when his chauffeur – the car – takes over. One of Google's self-driving vehicles, Mr. Janin's ride is equipped with sophisticated artificial intelligence technology that allows him to sit as a passenger in the driver's seat. Skip to next ...
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Artificial intelligence 'can beat 99% of all fantasy football players' and ...
Daily Mail
An artificial intelligence computer programme has been designed that can beat 99 per cent of fantasy football players - and may one day be used to save lives by selecting a 'dream team' of medical staff. The researchers behind the software simulated ...
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Daily Mail
The artificial intelligence revolution is here. Where do humans fit in?
Alaska Dispatch
One of Google's self-driving vehicles, Mr. Janin's ride is equipped with sophisticated artificial intelligence technology that allows him to sit as a passenger in the driver's seat. At iRobot Corporation in Bedford, Mass., a visitor watches as a five ...
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Global Telecoms - Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence
Sacramento Bee
Societies to be based on smart technologyBuddeComm's annual publication Global Telecoms – Smart Societies and Artificial Intelligence, provides the key global trends and insights for these important and interesting sectors which will form the ...
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Can a Robot Get Into Japan's Most Prestigious University?
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Fujitsu Ltd. is betting artificial intelligence is smart enough to make the grade for Todai — as the university is also known. In response to the challenge “Can a Robot Pass the Todai Entrance Exam”?, the electronics company said Monday that its ...
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Wall Street Journal (blog)
Wining Eleven 3, Final Ver No artificial intelligence but how?
GameDev.net
I read somewhere that there is no artificial intelligence in Wining Eleven 3, Final Ver. it's a PSOne game back to years ago. I'd love to know how CPU responds to actions and plays. e.g. CPU vs CPU game: what are results based on? and how can a result ...
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New artificial intelligence programme could beat 99% of 'Fantasy football players'
Newstrack India
London, Sep 13(ANI): A new artificial intelligence computer programme, which can beat 99 per cent of fantasy football players, could one day be used to save lives by selecting a dream team of medical staff. In fantasy football, participants play as a ...
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Alan Turing at 100
Phys.Org
And viewers can browse some of the ways that artificial intelligence was seen in the mainstream press, and in what the exhibit curators call the "fantasy, desire, and paranoia" of science fiction. In those realms, communicating machines can be helpful ...
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New 'ATM' takes old phones and gives back green
R & D Magazine
Using sophisticated artificial intelligence developed through two NSF Small Business Innovation Research grants, ecoATM kiosks can differentiate varied consumer electronics products and determine a market value. If the value is acceptable, users have ...
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R & D Magazine
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) Kicks off Dream of Artificial Intelligence - GOOG ...
U.S. Election News
Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) currently started one of the largest transformations of the firm's Web-search engine, declared on Wednesday that it was taking the “next baby steps” in the direction of realizing the dream of artificial intelligence: a computer ...
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Tuesday 11 September 2012

Artificial Intelligence News 12 September 2012

Computer, read my lips: Emotion detector developed using a genetic algorithm
Phys.Org
A computer is being taught to interpret human emotions based on lip pattern, according to research published in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. The system could improve the way we interact with computers and ...
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We are the creators of artificial life – both now and through the ages
The Conversation
And we're all familiar with the idea of artificial intelligence. But what about artificial life? What is it, and why should we care? Artificial Life is a recently labelled but truly ancient field in which technology is used to imitate biological life ...
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Fujitsu to Participate in Artificial Brain Project, "Can a Robot Pass the ...
ITNews
Led by NII professor Noriko Arai, Todai Robot was started in 2011 with the aim of once again bringing an integrated approach to research into artificial intelligence (AI), a field that had grown fragmented since 1980, as a way of opening new horizons ...
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Tech's New Wave, Driven by Data
New York Times
“Now is the time,” says Mr. Stonebraker, who is an adjunct professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory. “The economics and the technology are ripe.” The case for optimism is by no ...
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Brain Posts: Autism Diagnosis and Artificial Intelligence
By Bill Yates
Wall and colleagues recently published a study using artificial intelligence to develop a shortened interview to diagnose autism. They started with data from a group of children with autism who completed a comprehensive autism diagnostic ...
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The future of Artificial Intelligence – as imagined in 1989 - R-bloggers
By Corey Chivers
This image comes from the cover of Preliminary Papers of the Second International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (1989). Someone abandoned it in the lobby of my building at school. Whatever for, I'll never know. I just love ...
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Tuesday 4 September 2012

Artificial Intelligence News 5 Sept 2012

Artificial Intelligence Will Defeat CAPTCHA -- How Will We Prove We're Human ...
Forbes
But there's no escaping that CAPTCHAs are becoming harder for humans and easier for artificial intelligence programs to solve. For example, an app developer named Andrew Munsell put a post recently about his own frustration with reCAPTCHA, Google's ...
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Outside View: Artificial Intelligence
Space Daily
As reported in The New York Times in 2009, a group of computer scientists from around the world met to discuss whether restrictions should be made on development of Artificial Intelligence. Their worry was that human control over AI could soon be ...
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AI surveillance cameras can learn, remember ... and forget
GCN.com
A few years ago at the FOSE trade show in downtown D.C., I was able to get a look at some neat new technology where artificial intelligence was being added to cameras designed to protect federal installations. Back then the cameras were not too ...
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Silicon Valley Startup Resurrects Reagan to Pitch New Tech
ADOTAS
A new Silicon Valley tech company has reanimated President Ronald Reagan to demonstrate its cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) video software. Seyyer Inc., launched by CEO and founder Behrooz Rezvani, Ph.D, offers users the first customized, ...
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Jeopardized and marginalized
HeraldNet (blog)
I'll take Disgruntled Artificial Intelligence for $400, Alex: Computer giant IBM is looking to create a new version of Watson, the computer that famously defeated two "Jeopardy" champions. Watson 2.0 will be accessible from smartphones. Think Siri but ...
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Morality for robots?
Phys.Org
On the topic of computers, artificial intelligence and robots, Northern Illinois University Professor David Gunkel says science fiction is fast becoming "science fact." Fictional depictions of artificial intelligence have run the gamut from the loyal ...
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IBM wants to take Watson mobile, bring its tech to your smartphone
TechHive
Last year, the world watched in wonder as an enormous artificial intelligence computer, Watson, competed with previous Jeopardy! champions for a few rounds of the popular game show. IBM's computer came away victorious, proving that artificial ...
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