Artificial Intelligence News 16 Jan 2013

AI Can Spot the Building Numbers in Google Maps Images Slate Magazine (blog) Google collects and organizes an almost unfathomable amount of data every day. It harnesses the information to provide a bunch of services and ... See all stories on this topic »	Slate Magazine (blog)
Japan Artificial Intelligence society apologizes for boneheaded ... InterAksyon Detail of the controversial cover of the journal of the Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence. 'The front-cover design is not intended to discriminate ... See all stories on this topic »	InterAksyon
How an artificial intelligence is learning to make video games by itself Polygon Once players learn what ANGELINA is, Michael Cook knows they'll never be fooled. After being outed as an AI, the program's creations can't be ... See all stories on this topic »	Boston Globe
Marvin Minsky, founding father of artificial intelligence, wins the ... Broadway World A co-founder of the prestigious Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he was also instrumental in establishing ... See all stories on this topic »
IBM Watson business unit created to monetize artificial intelligence ... NDTV Watson, which beat expert "Jeopardy" quiz show contestants in 2011, is an artificial intelligence super computer system named after legendary ... See all stories on this topic »	NDTV
GiantOtter receives NSF small business R&D grant to build anti ... Broadway World At the MIT Media Lab, Orkin had developed a crowdsourced Artificial Intelligence technology for virtual worlds for his PhD. With support from Harvard ... See all stories on this topic »
IBM Still Slogging Away to Market Watson's AI Smarts, Invests $1 ... Singularity Hub JON SIMON/FEATURE PHOTO SERVICE What contribution would you make to humankind if you controlled an advanced artificial intelligence ... See all stories on this topic »
Media Alert: Rocket Fuel CEO, Amazon CTO and IBM Watson ... IT Business Net REDWOOD CITY, CA -- (Marketwired) -- 01/14/14 -- Rocket Fuel (NASDAQ: FUEL), a leading provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions for ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial Intelligence News 24 Oct 2013

Artificial Intelligence in Medicine HealthTechZone IBM, in conjunction with the Cleveland Clinic, has developed two new artificial intelligences to improve medicine: WatsonPaths and Watson EMR Assistant. See all stories on this topic »
No, artificial intelligence isn't going to take all of our jobs Washington Post (blog) Recently, Boston University scholar James Bessen reviewed Tyler Cowen's new book, "Average Is Over," for the Switch. Cowen argues that the rise of ever more ... See all stories on this topic »	Washington Post (blog)
Anki Drive: Artificial Intelligence Brings Video Game Racing to the ... Technabob (blog) But, in addition to that, it lets you race remote control cars against cars driven entirely by artificial intelligence. The Anki Drive vehicles analyze their relative ... See all stories on this topic »	Technabob (blog)
Artificial intelligence to measure the collaborative capacity of students Basque Research Tecnalia works on the development of semantic descriptors applied to collaboration indicators on e-learning platforms. E-learning platforms are becoming ... See all stories on this topic »
Smart robots, driverless cars work – but they bring ethical issues too The Guardian An engineer adjusts the robot "The Incredible Bionic Man", at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, the world's first-ever functioning ... See all stories on this topic »	The Guardian
IA|AI – The Rise of Intelligence Amplification & Artificial Intelligence h+ Magazine Artificial intelligence or AI offers an even more radical path to expanding the sum of intelligence available to mankind. Over the coming decades engineers may ... See all stories on this topic »	h+ Magazine
Here's how artificial intelligence might really see the world io9 I've heard it said that one of the important functions of science fiction is to comment on the implications of new technology and what it might do to society. See all stories on this topic »
Into the Deep Blue Yonder – Artificial Intelligence and Intelligence ... h+ Magazine defcon-TIM_VAN_GELDER2-620x0 I recently did a series of interviews with Tim van Gelder on Intelligence Amplification, Artificial Intelligence, Argument ... See all stories on this topic »	h+ Magazine
AI Robots and Driverless Cars Raise Ethical Questions EV World Scientists and legal experts convene to debate the role and consequences of artificial intelligence and self-driving cars. personalised searches of Google to the ... See all stories on this topic »
Behind the Scenes at Google's Quantum AI Lab HPCwire In May, D-Wave's current flagship product, the 512-qubit D-Wave Two computer, was installed at Google's Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab under the direction ... See all stories on this topic »	HPCwire

Artificial Intelligence News 20 September 2012

How artificial intelligence is changing our lives Christian Science Monitor That's when his chauffeur – the car – takes over. One of Google's self-driving vehicles, Mr. Janin's ride is equipped with sophisticated artificial intelligence technology that allows him to sit as a passenger in the driver's seat. Skip to next ... See all stories on this topic » Christian Science Monitor

Artificial intelligence 'can beat 99% of all fantasy football players' and ... Daily Mail An artificial intelligence computer programme has been designed that can beat 99 per cent of fantasy football players - and may one day be used to save lives by selecting a 'dream team' of medical staff. The researchers behind the software simulated ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

The artificial intelligence revolution is here. Where do humans fit in? Alaska Dispatch One of Google's self-driving vehicles, Mr. Janin's ride is equipped with sophisticated artificial intelligence technology that allows him to sit as a passenger in the driver's seat. At iRobot Corporation in Bedford, Mass., a visitor watches as a five ... See all stories on this topic »

Global Telecoms - Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence Sacramento Bee Societies to be based on smart technologyBuddeComm's annual publication Global Telecoms – Smart Societies and Artificial Intelligence, provides the key global trends and insights for these important and interesting sectors which will form the ... See all stories on this topic »

Can a Robot Get Into Japan's Most Prestigious University? Wall Street Journal (blog) Fujitsu Ltd. is betting artificial intelligence is smart enough to make the grade for Todai — as the university is also known. In response to the challenge “Can a Robot Pass the Todai Entrance Exam”?, the electronics company said Monday that its ... See all stories on this topic » Wall Street Journal (blog)

Wining Eleven 3, Final Ver No artificial intelligence but how? GameDev.net I read somewhere that there is no artificial intelligence in Wining Eleven 3, Final Ver. it's a PSOne game back to years ago. I'd love to know how CPU responds to actions and plays. e.g. CPU vs CPU game: what are results based on? and how can a result ... See all stories on this topic »

New artificial intelligence programme could beat 99% of 'Fantasy football players' Newstrack India London, Sep 13(ANI): A new artificial intelligence computer programme, which can beat 99 per cent of fantasy football players, could one day be used to save lives by selecting a dream team of medical staff. In fantasy football, participants play as a ... See all stories on this topic »

Alan Turing at 100 Phys.Org And viewers can browse some of the ways that artificial intelligence was seen in the mainstream press, and in what the exhibit curators call the "fantasy, desire, and paranoia" of science fiction. In those realms, communicating machines can be helpful ... See all stories on this topic »

New 'ATM' takes old phones and gives back green R & D Magazine Using sophisticated artificial intelligence developed through two NSF Small Business Innovation Research grants, ecoATM kiosks can differentiate varied consumer electronics products and determine a market value. If the value is acceptable, users have ... See all stories on this topic » R & D Magazine

Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) Kicks off Dream of Artificial Intelligence - GOOG ... U.S. Election News Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) currently started one of the largest transformations of the firm's Web-search engine, declared on Wednesday that it was taking the “next baby steps” in the direction of realizing the dream of artificial intelligence: a computer ... 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 25 July 2012

Trapit for iPad aims to fix mobile browsing with artificial intelligence VentureBeat That's the message Trapit co-founder Hank Nothhaft conveyed to me as he demoed his solution to the problem: a Trapit iPad application that uses artificial intelligence to deliver personalized content. Trapit is the two-year-old, venture-backed intelligent ... See all stories on this topic » VentureBeat

How Google Is Using Artificial Intelligence Post Penguin Business 2 Community The Panda algorithm launched in Feb 2011 was a unique experiment in machine learning where artificial intelligence was built into the ranking techniques adopted by the search engine to identify relevant search specific results. The ranking criteria were first ... See all stories on this topic »

Overblown-Claims-of-Failure Watch: How Not to Gauge the Success of Online ... The Atlantic Last summer, when Stanford announced its free, online artificial intelligence course, much of the attention celebrated just how *many* people would be able to partake of the intellectual delights normally reserved for the Stanford student body. "Virtual and ... See all stories on this topic » The Atlantic

Artificial Irrelevance: The robots are coming SBS 18 Jul 2012, 6:15 pm - Source: Andy Park, SBS. Share This. 34 10 1. + Comment. 5. The creation of artificial intelligence more sophisticated than a human brain, even by accident, is now a very real prospect warns Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn. See all stories on this topic »

The Morning Briefing: Artificial intelligence SmartPlanet.com (blog) Google Glass controls and artificial intelligence detailed. Google's cautious approach to allowing people to play with Project Glass means the UI of the wearable computer is something of a mystery, but a new patent application could spill some of the secrets. See all stories on this topic »

How artificial intelligence will shape our lives SmartPlanet.com (blog) Ray Kurzweil, a futurist and creator of optical recognition technology — the type that converts scanned documents to editable text — predicts that we'll have “strong” artificial intelligence by 2029. He believes that “singularity,” or the point where technology ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial intelligence to sniff out bankers' scams New Scientist Artificial intelligence to sniff out bankers' scams. 18 July 2012 by Paul Marks; Magazine issue 2873. Subscribe and save; For similar stories, visit the Finance and Economics Topic Guide. Dodgy dealings at banks are in the spotlight again – but AI-based ... See all stories on this topic »

Will Artificial Intelligence and Technology Automation Kill Jobs? Midsize Insider Andrew McAfee, a business school researcher at the Massachusetts institute of Technology who examines employment trends, contends that artificial intelligence (AI) and other advances in technology may be pushing more people out of white-collar jobs. See all stories on this topic »

Ahead of his time, Turing's pardon is now long overdue Irish Times UCD philosophy professor Dermot Moran considered whether his famous Turing Test of artificial intelligence could be accepted as a mark of true intelligence; Oxford mathematician (and frequent BBC science presenter) Prof Marcus du Sautoy looked at some ... See all stories on this topic »

A Texas Hold 'Em Tournament for AIs IEEE Spectrum Artificial Intelligence · Home Robots · Humanoid Robots · Robotics Software · Industrial Robots · Medical Robots · Military Robots · Robot Sensors & Actuators. Devices · Design · Materials · Memory · Nanotechnology · Optoelectronics · Processors. Internet ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial Intelligence News 17 July 2012

Today's Stupidly Effective Artificial Intelligence Boston.com June 23rd marked the centenary of Alan Turing, the genius who laid some of the decisively important groundwork for the computer. That's meant a lot of articles about Turing, computers, artificial intelligence, and the Turing Test. My absolute favorite ... See all stories on this topic »

Artificial intelligence becoming fantasy football reality Network World UK researchers ready AI software system as Premier League soccer season nears. See all stories on this topic »

Google Glass controls and Artificial Intelligence detailed SlashGear Google's cautious approach to allowing people to play with Project Glass means the UI of the wearable computer is something of a mystery, but a new patent. See all stories on this topic » SlashGear

TomaGold Corporation Awards DIAGNOS a Contract to Use Its Artificial ... MarketWatch (press release) "The principal advantage in the use of the artificial intelligence is the ability to update the model regularly. The backbone of CARDS is a data mining engine which learns the signature or fingerprints of known mineralized sites, and identifies points ... See all stories on this topic »

Should we be considering coding 'kindness' into Artificial Intelligence? TekGoblin There are countless examples of humanity envisaging a deus ex machina come to either usher in a technological utopia or wreak unmitigated destruction. At the end of Terminator 3, artificial intelligence becomes self-aware and acts to eliminate its ... See all stories on this topic »

Scientist explores human reason, limits of artificial intelligence PR NewsChannel (press release) In “Understanding Understanding: Natural and Artificial Intelligence” (ISBN 1466450584), Robert Kendall Lindsay clarifies the issues surrounding the artificial intelligence deployed by robots and supercomputers. “The potential as well as the ... See all stories on this topic »

Zabaware's AI Software Used in Secret Cinema Production of Prometheus Virtual-Strategy Magazine Zabaware's Ultra Hal Artificial Intelligence software plays the role of a space ship's computer in Secret Cinema's presentation of the box office smash hit Prometheus. Erie, PA, July 14, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Secret Cinema, created by Future Cinema, took ... See all stories on this topic »

BLOG: Humans' not-so singular status Science News How neuroscience and artificial intelligence challenge ideas of what makes humankind special. See all stories on this topic »

The Necessity of Mind Uploading and Machine intelligence Science 2.0 (blog) We cannot really predict where the evolution of artificial intelligence systems to sustain a “post-scarcity” society will take us. One thing is for sure, to try to unplug it would mean catastrophe. This is the future of an automated society, gradual ... See all stories on this topic »