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 »

Artificial Intelligence News 15 August 2012

Anonymous Operation TrapWire Bay Area Indymedia This weekend, it was disclosed by WikiLeaks the details about a system known as "TrapWire" that uses facial recognition and other techniques including high-end artificial intelligence to track and monitor individuals using countless different closed ... See all stories on this topic » Bay Area Indymedia

Butler: 'Dark Pools' are a threat to our future San Jose Mercury News Author Scott Patterson explains it all in his book that chronicles the rise of computerized artificial intelligence and the computerized trading that has come to dominate the stock market. How dominant? Patterson writes, "At the end of World War II ... See all stories on this topic »

Professor Matthew E. Taylor Receives $400000 Grant to Research Artificial ... Lafayette College Campus News Matthew Taylor, assistant professor of computer science (l-r), Kumera Bekele '13, and Tong Pham '13 work on artificial intelligence research in Acopian Engineering Center. This prestigious and much-coveted award is given, as noted by NSF, in support of ... See all stories on this topic » Lafayette College Campus News

Research Fellow (Artificial Intelligence) The Conversation The Research Fellow (Artificial Intelligence) will conduct research into temporal and spatial Bayesian network modelling for improved fog forecasting. You will support a research project, funded by the Australian Research Council, and interact with the ... See all stories on this topic »

SmartAction Receives Customer Interaction Solutions Magazine's 2012 Speech ... Sacramento Bee Smart Call Agents are an artificial-intelligence based solution revolutionizing the customer service industry. It features natural language speech capabilities, which allow it to handle more complex calls than the most advanced IVRs on the market today. See all stories on this topic »

Errant Code? It's Not Just a Bug New York Times These companies use artificial intelligence programs that get a “sense” of your normal purchases: where you use the card, the range of the amounts involved, the sort of vendors you deal with. The programs can sometimes be too vigilant (freezing your ... See all stories on this topic » New York Times

Interactive 3D to come to HTML TG Daily Now, though, computer scientists from the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research are working to describe computer scenes in spatial detail directly within websites' code. They've ... See all stories on this topic » TG Daily

Google Wants To Put Your Gmail Content Into Your Search Results, But Maybe ... Slate Search senior vice president Amit Singhal says it's part of an effort to make the company's bread-and-butter service "truly universal" and build artificial intelligence into the search engine. Google hopes security concerns will be addressed by a ... See all stories on this topic »

Global App Giant Makes Push for US Market With Personalized 3D Virtual ... Equities.com The Android-based virtual assistant, aptly named Everfriends, leverages award-winning Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology and integration with apps, such as Google Maps, Wikipedia and television viewing app SPB-TV, to interact directly with users ... See all stories on this topic »

Predicting crime online and offline Aljazeera.com Can artificial intelligence accurately monitor social media and surveillance cameras for potential crimes or crisis events? That's one of the goals of an EU-backed research project known as INDECT. Researchers are developing new means of threat ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial Intelligence News 8 August 2012

Ultimate Mobile Technologies, UAVs and Artificial Intelligence SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog) The military's technology of today, will be in the commercial sector tomorrow. The X-47B is not just a demonstration of mobile communications, remote sensors and artificial intelligence, but also a demonstration of M2M (machine-to-machine) communication. See all stories on this topic » SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)

Soon, space robots like Curiosity may evolve even greater intelligence VentureBeat But robotics and artificial intelligence continue to advance at an exponential rate. As we look towards the future of space exploration in the next decade and beyond, we can expect the next generation of space robots to be orders of magnitude more powerful ... See all stories on this topic » VentureBeat

Will Artificial Intelligence Improve Airport Service? A CBS This Morning Report Peter Greenberg.com Travel News ... to Know About Airport Security: A CBS This Morning Report · Travel Contest: Olympic Travel Takeaway–Week 1 Challenge · Ancillary Revenue Update: New Charges, Hidden Fees & What You Can Do · Will Artificial Intelligence Improve Airport Service? See all stories on this topic »

Clubs artificial intelligence Gladstone Observer THIS year saw the completion of the long overdue artificial surface installed at Rigby Park. With the installation of the artificial surface, two Gladstone sides won their respective age state titles and Gladstone Hockey can boast about having 17 of their members ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial intelligence can help Thistle in cup battle Glasgow Evening Times Artificial intelligence can help Thistle in cup battle. JACKIE McNAMARA is confident Partick Thistle can handle Forfar's artificial pitch as he sets his sights on another cup triumph. Tweet. Custom byline text: By CHRIS JACK. The Jags head to Station Park ... See all stories on this topic »

Scientists: Modern Pop Music All Sounds The Same CBS Local The study, conducted by the Spanish National Research Council, was led by Joan Serra, a specialist in Artificial Intelligence. Using the Million Song Dataset, an archive of music that breaks down music so its data could be crunched, the researchers ran 50 ... See all stories on this topic » CBS Local

Brain imaging can predict how intelligent you are, study finds Eureka! Science News Updated by artificial intelligence Thu, 2 Aug 2012, 21:40:08 EDT Learn more. Tell your friends. Get science news via. Astronomy Space · Biology Nature · Environment Climate ... More recent research has pinpointed the brain's lateral prefrontal cortex, a region just behind the temple, as a critical hub for high-level mental processing, with activity levels there predicting another 5 percent of variation in individual intelligence. Now, new research from Washington University in St. Louis suggests that another 10 percent of ... See all stories on this topic » Eureka! Science News

MIT researchers code a new programming language TG Daily Email. Share. Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) have written a new programming language dubbed "Halide." MIT graduate student Jonathan Ragan-Kelley describes Halide as an optimized language for ... See all stories on this topic » TG Daily

Nerds on Film: 10 Techie Character Types We Love Mashable 1. The Robot That Wants to Be Human. Film: A.I. Artificial Intelligence. In A.I. Artificial Intelligence, David wants nothing more than to be accepted as a normal human boy. The desire for belonging is a prevalent plot point in many tech movies. Photo courtesy of ... See all stories on this topic »

LEGO LASR! Armed with Science For his day time job, William Adams works in the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence at the Naval Research Laboratory, supporting research in human-robot interaction, sensing, and autonomy. He manages the resources of the Center's ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial Intelligence News 2 August 2012

How Artificial Intelligence May Change How Agencies Recognize a Terrorist ... Top Secret Writers The idea of artificial intelligence has been a science fiction concept in books and movies for many generations. Humans have always had the dream of developing computers and robots that could think, behave and respond to the world in the same way that ... See all stories on this topic »

17-year-old programs artificial 'brain' to diagnose breast cancer Fox News Like other artificial intelligence programs, artificial neural networks "learn" what to do by analyzing examples they're given and they perform better if they get more examples. In addition, they're able to detect patterns in data that are too complex for human ... See all stories on this topic »

Photos: Artificial intelligence on wheels at UBC Vancouver Sun ... raced during the International Autonomous Robot Racing Competition on Saturday at University of British Columbia. Students create the robotic vehicles using sensors, GPS and artificial intelligence. CLICK HERE FOR PHOTOS OF THE ROBOT RACES ... See all stories on this topic »

TECHNOLOGY SPECTATOR: Embrace the cyborg revolution Business Spectator I will explore whether the next stage of human evolution is going to depend on merging humans and machines, something that is becoming increasingly possible through artificial intelligence (AI). Some of the predictions and scenarios discussed might not be ... See all stories on this topic »

Twitter Can Know When You'll Get Sick Eight Days Before You Do Medical Daily The paper, which received an outstanding mention from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, was presented at the association's conference in Toronto. Published by Medicaldaily.com. email; print ... See all stories on this topic » Medical Daily

Revenge of “The Turk” IEEE Spectrum POSTED BY: Philip E. Ross / Thu, July 26, 2012. Artificial intelligence mavens have often pointed out that it's easier for a computer to play master-level chess than to pick up the pieces and put them on their intended squares. Moral: to survive the next wave of ... See all stories on this topic »

Scientists create artificial mother of pearl Eureka! Science News Updated by artificial intelligence Sun, 29 Jul 2012, 18:00:22 EDT Learn more. Tell your friends. Get science news via. Astronomy ... In order to create the artificial nacre, the scientists followed three steps. First, they had to take preventative measure to ensure ... See all stories on this topic »

Researchers prove your grandmother right, modern music is louder and all the ... Engadget Are your elders always complaining about loud and monotonous music? Or perhaps you've started to feel similar sentiments? The Artificial Intelligence Research Institute in Barcelona says it's not just a matter of opinion. The team analyzed data on loudness, ... See all stories on this topic »