AI Happenings March 2012

Artificial intelligence project builds video games from scratch Ars Technica By Megan Geuss | Published March 11, 2012 2:32 PM Santa's Snowfight Escape was created by an AI system called Angelina. Santa's trying to get to that mug of hot chocolate at the top. Her name is Angelina: she runs on a heavy-duty Mac server and she's ... See all stories on this topic »

Futurist: We'll someday accept computers as human CNN By Brandon Griggs, CNN Kurzweil on portentous sci-fi fears about computers: "I don't see it as them vs. us" Austin, Texas (CNN) -- Any author or filmmaker seeking ideas for a sci-fi yarn about the implications of artificial intelligence -- good or bad ... See all stories on this topic »

Ray Kurzweil Debunks 'Exponential Returns' Doubters at SXSW PC Magazine Will artificial intelligence surpass human intelligence? Of course. Can they perform real-time native language processing? Why not? How about biomechanically extending human lifetimes by several centuries? Just hold on a few more years! See all stories on this topic »

Angelina Artificial Intelligence Builds Own Video Game Mobile Magazine By Leo Xavier, March 09, 2012 @ 7:21am Today's software can certainly perform magic and it's always fun to learn about new developments, especially when it is coming with endless possibilities. The picture posted alongside is not taken from a primitive ... See all stories on this topic »

IBM lends its artificial intelligence expertise to SKA project Business Day SQUARE Kilometre Array (SKA) SA yesterday announced a partnership with IBM that will marry the multinational technology company's artificial intelligence software with radio astronomy technology. Collaboration with industry means technological ... See all stories on this topic »

Is Intelligence Self-Limiting? Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies by Milan M. Ćirković by Arthur Caplan by Martine Rothblatt by Russell Blackford In science fiction novels like River of Gods by Ian McDonald [1], an artificial intelligence finds a way to boot-strap its own design into a growing super-intelligence. See all stories on this topic »

Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning, Darkness 2: Artificial Intelligence Post-Mortem ... G4 TV (blog) Artificial intelligence in games is a bit of a misnomer. Yes, it's artificial, but no, it's not intelligent. It's still a program, following a decision gate and making choices based on pre-determined outcomes and priorities. See all stories on this topic »

Technology will really become part of your brain Houston Chronicle By Valentino Lucio Cyborgs and artificial intelligence are no longer only topics for science fiction. Their position in the human experience is growing and is expected to extend life and to push the limits of death. "We are the human machine ... See all stories on this topic »

Fighting Shipboard Fires with Artificial Intelligence? US Navy Tests the ... GCaptain (press release) The Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence (NCARAI) is developing the algorithms that will allow autonomous mobility and decision making by the robot. To enable natural interaction with a human team leader, the robot will have ... See all stories on this topic »