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 12 Jan 2014

Artificial Intelligence Set to Deliver 'Wow' Wired I recently attended a conference at which Professor Edward Feigenbaum delivered a presentation entitled “Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Then, ... See all stories on this topic »
Hyping Artificial Intelligence, Yet Again New Yorker (blog) According to the Times, true artificial intelligence is just around the corner. A year ago, the paper ran a front-page story about the wonders of new ... See all stories on this topic »	New Yorker (blog)
Artificial Intelligence Cube Makes Spike Jonze's “Her” A Reality [Video] PSFK The cube-shaped “artificial intelligence console” uses face-tracking and language analysis to assess your emotions and deliver relevant content that is ... See all stories on this topic »
Artificial intelligence a wise choice for Gregor Glasgow Evening Times Gregor Townsend has called for an artificial pitch at Scotstoun after ... It is understood that an artificial surface has been ruled out in the past as the ... See all stories on this topic »	Glasgow Evening Times
Artificial intelligence reduces perturbation and disturbance related to ... Scientific American (blog) The Falling Walls Festive Dinner of 2013 debuted the "artificial intelligence" menu planner from the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New ... See all stories on this topic »	Scientific American (blog)
Forget artificial intelligence. It's artificial idiocy we need to worry about The Guardian If a computer could learn to identify you with absolute accuracy, would that mean it knew what it means to be you? Photograph: Carsten ... See all stories on this topic »	The Guardian
An AI Chip to Help Computers Understand Images MIT Technology Review A combination of new hardware and new software will be necessary for computers to become significantly better at artificial-intelligence applications. See all stories on this topic »
Scarlett Johansson Under Attack From Apple's Siri?! Get Deets On ... PerezHilton.com Apple's iPhone voice — the original queen of artificial intelligence — does NOT approve! When phone users ask her about, well, Her, they're getting ... See all stories on this topic »
VMX Project: Visual Artificial Intelligence for the Masses Examiner.com The founders of VMX and Vision.ai, Lead Developer Geoff Golder and Computer Vision Scientist Dr. Tomasz Malisiewicz, want to take the intuitive ... See all stories on this topic »	Examiner.com
EmoSpark AI console just wants you to be happy CNET An Indiegogo campaign aims to raise $100,000 to produce an artificial-intelligence machine dedicated to improving humans' happiness (and helping ... 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 5 Sept 2012

Artificial Intelligence Will Defeat CAPTCHA -- How Will We Prove We're Human ... Forbes But there's no escaping that CAPTCHAs are becoming harder for humans and easier for artificial intelligence programs to solve. For example, an app developer named Andrew Munsell put a post recently about his own frustration with reCAPTCHA, Google's ... See all stories on this topic » Forbes

Outside View: Artificial Intelligence Space Daily As reported in The New York Times in 2009, a group of computer scientists from around the world met to discuss whether restrictions should be made on development of Artificial Intelligence. Their worry was that human control over AI could soon be ... See all stories on this topic »

AI surveillance cameras can learn, remember ... and forget GCN.com A few years ago at the FOSE trade show in downtown D.C., I was able to get a look at some neat new technology where artificial intelligence was being added to cameras designed to protect federal installations. Back then the cameras were not too ... See all stories on this topic »

Silicon Valley Startup Resurrects Reagan to Pitch New Tech ADOTAS A new Silicon Valley tech company has reanimated President Ronald Reagan to demonstrate its cloud-based artificial intelligence (AI) video software. Seyyer Inc., launched by CEO and founder Behrooz Rezvani, Ph.D, offers users the first customized, ... See all stories on this topic »

Jeopardized and marginalized HeraldNet (blog) I'll take Disgruntled Artificial Intelligence for $400, Alex: Computer giant IBM is looking to create a new version of Watson, the computer that famously defeated two "Jeopardy" champions. Watson 2.0 will be accessible from smartphones. Think Siri but ... See all stories on this topic »

Morality for robots? Phys.Org On the topic of computers, artificial intelligence and robots, Northern Illinois University Professor David Gunkel says science fiction is fast becoming "science fact." Fictional depictions of artificial intelligence have run the gamut from the loyal ... See all stories on this topic »

IBM wants to take Watson mobile, bring its tech to your smartphone TechHive Last year, the world watched in wonder as an enormous artificial intelligence computer, Watson, competed with previous Jeopardy! champions for a few rounds of the popular game show. IBM's computer came away victorious, proving that artificial ... See all stories on this topic »