AI Happenings (28/3/2012)

Artificial Intelligence? I'll Say. Why Computers Can't Joke BusinessWeek Dr. Fill's score was good enough to finish 141st out of 600 human contestants—near the low end of the range that its creator, the artificial intelligence expert Matthew Ginsberg, had predicted. Dr. Fill, Ginsberg told the New York Times, ... See all stories on this topic »

Author Ted Bell: Artificial Intelligence Could Evolve Into Evil Reality NewsMax.com Best-selling author Bell told Newsmax in an exclusive interview that he chose to focus “Phantom” on what could happen if artificial intelligence were used for malign purposes, in this case by an Iranian scientist. “I look out a few years and see what I ... See all stories on this topic »

How AI: Artificial Intelligence ends in a different, better universe io9 There are any number of examples of movies that could use the personal canon treatment, but I'd like to nominate AI: Artificial Intelligence as a first film in need of revision. There are actually a lot of good aspects to Steven Spielberg's 2001 ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial intelligence the villain in 'Phantom' Rankin Ledger Somewhere in Iran, a brilliant scientist has created the first artificial intelligence device. He's been testing its capabilities, as in, controlling other machines and killing people. The AI, or Perseus, as it calls itself, is ready to go solo and ... See all stories on this topic »

ICAP Patent Brokerage Announces Three Patent Portfolios for Auction Disclosing ... MarketWatch (press release) The first portfolio is for artificial intelligence for autonomic monitoring and control of devices in a computerized network environment. It discloses techniques for collective interactions of autonomic entities, which includes transmitting ... See all stories on this topic »

David L. Waltz, Computer Science Pioneer, Dies at 68 New York Times The 3-D research was seminal in the fields of computer vision and artificial intelligence. Known as “constraint propagation,” the technique is now used in industry for solving problems like route scheduling, package routing and construction scheduling. See all stories on this topic »