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 »