Tuesday, 2 October 2012

Artificial Intelligence News 3 October 2012

In Artificial Intelligence Competition, Two Bots Pass for Human
Discover Magazine (blog)
In this match, video game avatars directed by artificial intelligence compete to see which comes across as most human in a fight against real human players. This year, for the first time, human participants mistook the two bots for humans more than ...
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Artificial Intelligence Used to Home in on New Fossil Sites
Yahoo! News (blog)
So the scientists are relying on a tool never tried before in paleontology: artificial intelligence. Such an approach might be able to pinpoint fossil troves in their giant needle-in-a-haystack quest and suggest new strategies for fossil hunting. It ...
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Artificial Intelligence Gamers Win Prize For 'Human-Like' Gameplay
RedOrbit
Artificial Intelligence Gamers Win Prize For 'Human-Like' Gameplay. September 26, 2012. Repost This. Image Credit: Mopic / Shutterstock · Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online. [ Watch the Video ]. Computer scientists won the BotPrize for ...
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Artificial intelligence expert named Ripon scholar
Fond du Lac Reporter
RIPON — An international expert on artificial intelligence and cognitive science is this year's Knopp Scholar at Ripon College. Peter Bock, a 1962 graduate of Ripon, will visit the campus Oct. 2-4 and present three public talks in Farr Hall's Bear ...
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Now, artificial intelligence algorithm to chart universe
Zee News
Now, artificial intelligence algorithm to chart universe London: Astronomers in Germany have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm to help them chart and explain the structure and dynamics of the universe around us with unprecedented accuracy.
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Artificial intelligence cracks history of art
RT
Artificial intelligence cracks history of art. Get short URL. Link copied to clipboard. email story to a friend print version. Published: 27 September, 2012, 17:43. TAGS: Art, SciTech, USA. St Catherine of Alexandria. Raphael. Art experts could soon be ...
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Autonomous flying robot has a honey bee brain
TG Daily
According to Dr. James Marshall, the model will be used to advance the current (limited) understanding of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how animals think. The team will build models of the systems in the brain that govern a honey bee's vision and ...
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Who won first video game tournament in the history of the galaxy?
San Jose Mercury News
Played at the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab. The game? None other than “Spacewar.” The winners: Bruce Baumgart won the “free-for-all” tournament; Slim Tovar was singles champion. If you haven't heard of Twin Galaxies (I hadn't), here's the ...
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Wine Robot 'Wall-Ye' Performs Complex Vineyards Tasks For $32000 (VIDEO)
Huffington Post
Wall-Ye draws on tracking technology, artificial intelligence and mapping to move from vine to vine, recognise plant features, capture and record data, memorise each vine, synchronise six cameras and guide its arms to wield tools. Wall-Ye is also being ...
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9 Historical Figures Who May Have Predicted Our Future
io9
We like to think that many of our fantastic dreams of the future — from space colonization to artificial intelligence and human enhancement — are fairly recent conceptions. But nothing could be further from the truth. Futurist visionaries have been ...
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Tuesday, 25 September 2012

Artificial Intelligence News 26 September 2012

Using artificial intelligence to chart the universe
Phys.Org
(Phys.org)—Astronomers in Germany have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm to help them chart and explain the structure and dynamics of the universe around us with unprecedented accuracy. The team, led by Francisco Kitaura of the Leibniz ...
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First artificial intelligence to chart the universe reported (Video)
Examiner.com
Francisco Kitaura of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam led a team of astrophysicists and computer programmers in the development of the first artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that accurately plots the content of the Milky Way and ...
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Wozniak eager for artificial intelligence
SBS
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says artificial intelligence (AI) is the next technological frontier. On the day the iPhone 5 was released in Australia, with some hiccups, Mr Wozniak told business leaders in Brisbane that AI was the next logical step ...
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Artificial Intelligence to Chart Universe
OpEdNews
View Article Stats Promoted to Headline (H4) on 9/24/12: Artificial Intelligence to Chart Universe Quicklink submitted by Daniel Geery (Add your own quicklinks easily with the OpEdNews Quick Link Browser bookmark). Tell A Friend. SAVE AS FAVORITE ...
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Adam Wheeler's Artificial Intelligence
Harvard Crimson
By forging his SAT scores, plagiarizing essays, and crafting phony transcripts from Andover and MIT, Adam B. Wheeler faked his way into Harvard. Once he got to the College, he didn't stop his cons—he snagged more than $45,000 in prizes and ...
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Steve Wozniak says artificial intelligence (AI) is the next technological ...
NEWS.com.au
Steve Wozniak says artificial intelligence (AI) is the next technological frontier. Source: Supplied. APPLE co-founder Steve Wozniak says artificial intelligence (AI) is the next technological frontier. On the day the iPhone 5 was released in Australia ...
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Wozniak hungry for AI era
NEWS.com.au
On the day the iPhone 5 was released in Australia, with some hiccups, Mr Wozniak told business leaders in Brisbane that AI was the next logical step. "We've made very tiny strides so far in the area of artificial intelligence and yet that really is ...
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