Artificial Intelligence News 3 October 2012

In Artificial Intelligence Competition, Two Bots Pass for Human Discover Magazine (blog) In this match, video game avatars directed by artificial intelligence compete to see which comes across as most human in a fight against real human players. This year, for the first time, human participants mistook the two bots for humans more than ... See all stories on this topic » Discover Magazine (blog)

Artificial Intelligence Used to Home in on New Fossil Sites Yahoo! News (blog) So the scientists are relying on a tool never tried before in paleontology: artificial intelligence. Such an approach might be able to pinpoint fossil troves in their giant needle-in-a-haystack quest and suggest new strategies for fossil hunting. It ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial Intelligence Gamers Win Prize For 'Human-Like' Gameplay RedOrbit Artificial Intelligence Gamers Win Prize For 'Human-Like' Gameplay. September 26, 2012. Repost This. Image Credit: Mopic / Shutterstock · Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online. [ Watch the Video ]. Computer scientists won the BotPrize for ... See all stories on this topic » RedOrbit

Artificial intelligence expert named Ripon scholar Fond du Lac Reporter RIPON — An international expert on artificial intelligence and cognitive science is this year's Knopp Scholar at Ripon College. Peter Bock, a 1962 graduate of Ripon, will visit the campus Oct. 2-4 and present three public talks in Farr Hall's Bear ... See all stories on this topic »

Now, artificial intelligence algorithm to chart universe Zee News Now, artificial intelligence algorithm to chart universe London: 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. See all stories on this topic » Zee News

Artificial intelligence cracks history of art RT Artificial intelligence cracks history of art. Get short URL. Link copied to clipboard. email story to a friend print version. Published: 27 September, 2012, 17:43. TAGS: Art, SciTech, USA. St Catherine of Alexandria. Raphael. Art experts could soon be ... See all stories on this topic » RT

Autonomous flying robot has a honey bee brain TG Daily According to Dr. James Marshall, the model will be used to advance the current (limited) understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how animals think. The team will build models of the systems in the brain that govern a honey bee's vision and ... See all stories on this topic »

Who won first video game tournament in the history of the galaxy? San Jose Mercury News Played at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. The game? None other than “Spacewar.” The winners: Bruce Baumgart won the “free-for-all” tournament; Slim Tovar was singles champion. If you haven't heard of Twin Galaxies (I hadn't), here's the ... See all stories on this topic » San Jose Mercury News

Wine Robot 'Wall-Ye' Performs Complex Vineyards Tasks For $32000 (VIDEO) Huffington Post Wall-Ye draws on tracking technology, artificial intelligence and mapping to move from vine to vine, recognise plant features, capture and record data, memorise each vine, synchronise six cameras and guide its arms to wield tools. Wall-Ye is also being ... See all stories on this topic »

9 Historical Figures Who May Have Predicted Our Future io9 We like to think that many of our fantastic dreams of the future — from space colonization to artificial intelligence and human enhancement — are fairly recent conceptions. But nothing could be further from the truth. Futurist visionaries have been ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic » SBS

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

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

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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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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 ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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, ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial Intelligence News 29 August 2012

Artificial Intelligence Predicts and Combats Crop-Destroying Fruit Flies Popular Science Oriental fruit flies are one of the biggest scourges to farmers around the globe, often forcing officials to put crops into quarantine just to keep Bactrocera dorsalis shut out. In Taiwan, where the situation is especially dire, scientists are using ... See all stories on this topic » Popular Science

Vicarious gets $15M to search for the key to artificial intelligence GigaOM Founders Fund and Dustin Moskovitz's Good Ventures have led a $15 million round in a company that is trying to replicate the intelligence of the human brain in software. Vicarious' goal is to help humanity thrive by inventing the algorithm to create to ... See all stories on this topic » GigaOM

Will Artificial Intelligence Turn Evil & Against Humans? Midweek Politics --Luke Muehlhauser, Executive Director of the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, joins us to talk about the future of AI, whether the fiction-based idea that robots and AI will eventually turn against each other is based in any reality ... See all stories on this topic »

Seyyer, Inc., The First to Develop Cognitive Video Realization, Launches ... The Herald | HeraldOnline.com CEO and founder, Behrooz Rezvani, Ph.D, has launched Seyyer Inc., a cloud-based video software artificial intelligence company that offers users the first customized, cognitive video realization (CVR) platform built to easily create massive amounts of ... See all stories on this topic »

Scientists investigate using artificial intelligence for next-generation ... Phys.Org The development of artificial intelligence-based approaches to junction control is one of many new and promising technologies that can make better use of existing urban and road capacity, while reducing the environmental impacts of road traffic. See all stories on this topic »

Artificial Intelligence Used to Create Traffic Control Systems DailyTech A new study says that humans are much better at controlling traffic in urban areas than current computer systems, leading to the development of new ones based on artificial intelligence. Researchers from the University of Southampton conducted a study ... See all stories on this topic » DailyTech

Artificial intelligence fights notorious crop pest New Scientist Now a system developed in Taiwan, where the pest is endemic, aims to harness artificial intelligence to warn of imminent outbreaks, limiting the need for such drastic action. In Taiwan, fruit fly populations are normally monitored using traps that are ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial Intelligence And Semantic Technology Conference In Kuching This ... Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 27 (Bernama) -- A conference which gathers famous researchers and scientists from all over the world to discuss artificial intelligence and semantic technology will be held in Kuching, Sarawak for five days from Sept 5. Mimos Berhad ... See all stories on this topic »

Yes, There is a Sub-Reddit Dedicated to Preventing SkyNet Wired The Futurology sub-Reddit recently hosted a must-read interview with Luke Muehlhauser, the CEO of the Singularity Institute. The interview is a wide-ranging discussion of artificial intelligence, technology, psychology, ethics, philosophy and the ... See all stories on this topic »

National Taiwan University Uses Artificial Intelligence To Fight Pests CrazyEngineers VoiCE National Taiwan University Uses Artificial Intelligence To Fight Pests. Smeechi Mittal Aug 28th, 2012 0 Comment. National Taiwan University has developed an Artificial Intelligence based technology to fight against pests. The system is of utmost ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial Intelligence News 22 August 2012

Artificial intelligence helps detect subtle differences in mutant worms R & D Magazine Now, scientists have demonstrated an automated system that uses artificial intelligence and cutting-edge image processing to rapidly examine large numbers of individual Caenorhabditis elegans, a species of nematode widely used in biological research. See all stories on this topic »

Artificial Intelligence Makes Worms More Informative Genetic Engineering News Scientists have developed a high-throughput artificial intelligence-based imaging technique that can automatically screen for subtle morphological changes associated with genetic manipulation in Caenorhabditis elegans nematodes. The Georgia Institute ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial Intelligence Used To Examine Mutant Worms RedOrbit This new automated system created by Georgia Tech scientists uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and brand new, cutting-edge image processing to accurately and quickly study large groups of a specific kind of nematode used in biological research, ... See all stories on this topic » RedOrbit

An artificial intelligence program's 'opinions' on gaming news VentureBeat The Internet has no shortage of opinions, but sometimes to really get to the heart of gaming news and issues, we have to look for fresh new perspectives. Humans are everywhere, though, so how about we turn to robots? Cleverbot is an artificial ... See all stories on this topic » VentureBeat

Will Eaves: What I'm thinking about ... artificial intelligence The Guardian (blog) At a recent centenary-year conference on the life and work of the mathematician and logician Alan Turing – a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) – I found myself asking two questions: 1) what, pace The Stones, starts us up and gets us (or any kind ... See all stories on this topic » The Guardian (blog)

TrapWire's Global Size and Support Reported; Unfavorable Stories Scrubbed The New American Despite the purported power of the surveillance system, Anonymous recommends opponents protest peacefully. “An omniscient AI [Artificial Intelligence] electronic brain able to monitor us through the thick web of CCTV cameras, as well as online social ... See all stories on this topic »

How long before robots can think like us? Telegraph.co.uk Turing proposed the test – he called it “the imitation game” – in a 1950 paper titled “Computing machinery and intelligence”. Back then, computers were very simple machines, and the field known as Artificial Intelligence (AI) was in its infancy. But ... See all stories on this topic » Telegraph.co.uk

EXAI Announces a Deal with Serbian Yellow Pages Virtual-Strategy Magazine Tel Aviv, Israel, August 14, 2012 --(PR.com)-- EXAI and YellowPages.rs have signed a strategic agreement in which YellowPages.rs will create websites for their clients using EXAI Builder, EXAI's artificial intelligence site builder. YellowPages.rs is ... See all stories on this topic »

Scientists shed light on glowing materials Eureka! Science News Updated by artificial intelligence Mon, 20 Aug 2012, 13:09:51 EDT Learn more. Tell your friends ... The team constructed an artificial two-dimensional photonic crystal by etching a hexagonal pattern of holes in a very thin silicon nitride membrane ... See all stories on this topic »

Horizon Riders Update Released Gamers Hell In Horizon Riders, planet Zethos has fallen under the military control of Thau-Phi, a rogue Artificial Intelligence. The only hope of liberating it lies in the crew of the DST Horizon, an elite mercenary unit operating in the deep fringes of space ... See all stories on this topic »