Artificial Intelligence News 19 Apr 2012

Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test Wired News By Brandon Keim One hundred years after Alan Turing was born, his eponymous test remains an elusive benchmark for artificial intelligence. Now, for the first time in decades, it's possible to imagine a machine making the grade. See all stories on this topic » Wired News

'Turing Test' Within Reach For Artificial Intelligence Computers? Huffington Post The problem was that artificial intelligence researchers eventually realized that human thought rested in large part on an intuitive "subcognitive" network of processes based off innumerable life experiences. If machines did not possess such a bedrock ... See all stories on this topic »

SOTI's BlitFire 10X technology uses Artificial Intelligence to power up a ... MarketWatch (press release) BlitFire 10X leverages a combination of algorithms that include Artificial Intelligence techniques to deliver faster response times and more efficient bandwidth usage. "With the new high resolution and high color devices coming onto the market, ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial Intelligence Provides Easy Autism Diagnosis in Minutes eMaxHealth To remedy the backlog, time spent diagnosing and human error, researchers from Harvard Medical School have found a way using artificial intelligence to more accurately detect autism in children and establish a diagnosis in minutes rather than hours. See all stories on this topic » eMaxHealth

Artificial Intelligence: Then and Now Billing World (blog) These were the words of Robert French, a cognitive scientist at the French National Center for Scientific Research, one of many researchers who just can't let the idea of artificial intelligence go. I thought instantly of those bubbles of brilliance ... See all stories on this topic »

Google's Intelligence Is More Baboon Than Human The Atlantic If you want to know how the world's biggest artificial intelligence operation works, allow me to direct you to this study about baboons published this week in Science. I'm serious: Google's machine learning methods bear a familial resemblance to the ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic

Artificial intelligence: time to 'invest in soft robotics' PublicServiceEurope.com by Rolf Pfeifer Is soft robotics a fad, or the future? If you browse robotics-related internet sites, you will find a plethora of workshops, conferences, summer schools, and publications on the topic of soft robotics. What is it, why is it becoming ... See all stories on this topic » PublicServiceEurope.com

Can game developers save AI? TechRadar UK By Dan Griliopoulos 4 mins ago There's no stranger field than Artificial Intelligence. The science of making intelligent machines has never had greater potential - or seemed more insurmountably difficult. The more we study the human foundations of ... See all stories on this topic » TechRadar UK

Professor Judea Pearl receives Alan Turing award for work on artificial ... Daily Bruin By ALEX MOSKOWITZ Judea Pearl remembered hiding under a staircase with seven other children when Egyptian forces launched an air-attack on Tel Aviv, Israel in 1948. “Kids, it's going to be much worse; it's only the beginning, but we are going to ... See all stories on this topic »