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 »