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IBM devises software for its experimental brain-like chips

Posted August 8, 2013 - 12:03 am

Following up on work commissioned by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), IBM has developed a programming paradigm, and associated simulator and basic software library, for its experimental SyNAPSE processor.
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Yahoo! Marissa Mayer’s workers get paroled [CARTOON]

Posted July 19, 2013 - 6:00 am

Yahoo’s CEO celebrates one year on the job by granting employees a special privilege
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Top Artificial Intelligence system is as smart as a 4-year-old

Posted July 15, 2013 - 4:11 pm

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago wanted to know how smart a top artificial intelligence system actually is. So they gave it an IQ test.
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Google's 'conversational search' stinks: But it's destined to change search forever

Posted May 23, 2013 - 4:39 am

Google has Star Trek-visions of making today's search experience more like the Starship Enterprise's talking central computer.
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Robot brain can learn by scanning Internet images

Posted May 1, 2013 - 10:42 am

Imagine if a robot could learn the names of objects through Google Image-like searches. That's what these Japanese researchers are working on.
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AI programmers struggle to makes games 'imitate life'

Posted March 25, 2013 - 11:31 pm

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.
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The Weekly Hash - February 15, 2013

Posted February 15, 2013 - 12:22 pm

From the College of Cardinals’ new high tech method for choosing a pope to Google’s new private airport to the president’s geeky Fireside Chat we make fun of some of the this week’s top tech stories
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Artificial intelligence better than doctors at diagnosing treating patients

Posted February 13, 2013 - 8:53 am

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.
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Would you like to play a game? New AI teaches itself the rules

Posted July 21, 2012 - 7:35 am

An AI that can watch two-minute videos of some simple board games being played, learn the rules, and then play against human opponents has been developed by Lukasz Kaiser, a researcher at Paris Diderot University.
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Artificial intelligence becoming fantasy football reality

Posted July 16, 2012 - 2:50 pm

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.
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Watch this 60-minute film on artificial intelligence

Posted April 10, 2012 - 9:57 am

Take a journey on the latest developments on AI with the BBC.
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A.I. MOTHER nags hackers to take out the trash

Posted February 25, 2012 - 7:50 am

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.
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2011 robot roundup

Posted December 14, 2011 - 11:02 am

If 2011 is any indication, our future relies on robots and computer intelligence.
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Racing micromice set record for maze solving, raise questions about robot intelligence

Posted December 12, 2011 - 2:03 pm

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.
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Computer better than doctor at breast cancer diagnosis

Posted November 10, 2011 - 1:29 pm

Stanford University computer scientist Dr. Daphne Koller may have created an electronic pathologist. Software can now grade breast cancer cells as "indolent" or "aggressive" more accurately than a human.
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Poop scooping robot demonstrates how to make expensive tech really attractive

Posted October 19, 2011 - 11:12 am

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.
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Robot triathlete challenges human dominance on Ironman course

Posted September 15, 2011 - 12:19 pm

Multi-sport endurance robot Evolta will run Ironman course in three different bodies, stopping to change batteries when it gets tired. Heck, Icould do that.
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Wozniak: Machines will run the world, humans will become idle 'pets'

Posted July 8, 2011 - 2:31 pm

Will increasingly intelligent machines make humans irrelevant? Let's hope not.
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