artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence, a field of programming employed by video game developers to make characters smarter and improve their decisions, still has a ways to go before it actually yields intelligent characters.

New research by Indiana University shows using artificial intelligence to understand and predict the outcomes of medical treatment could reduce health care costs by more than 50% while also improving patient outcomes by nearly the same amount.

University of Southampton researchers are fine-tuning an artificial intelligence system they say will give them a leg up in the English Fantasy Football League when the Premier League soccer season kicks off in August.

It can be hard to herd a bunch of hardware hacking geeks into doing their part with the chores, but Louisville hackerspace LVL1 has come up with a novel solution to the problem. MOTHER, a set of scripts attached to an impressive array of sensors spread throughout the hackerspace, makes sure to nag community members into doing their part to keep the hackerspace clean.

The All Japan Micromouse Competition shows how well task 'bots perform even when the task is problem-solving; the one they don't solve is whether we want to build a form of life that really is smart enough to complain about all those mazes it had to run and floors it had to sweep.

If you rate the value of the task by how unpleasant it is and how much you'd pay to get someone else to do it, robotics researchers at U. Penn. just changed the whole cost/benefit question of personal service robots for consumers.