Software / A.I.

IBM shows human brainlike chip possible - August 18, 2011

Working on a six year research project funded by DARPA, and involving about a hundred researchers, IBM has just announced that they have reached an important milestone in making chips that are able to “adapt” their thinking. Just like human brain, the chip is able to make a great deal of parallel processing at the same time combining memory and calculation. Researchers are saying that […] Read More

AI to spot your face and reveal your personal info - August 16, 2011

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-facial-recognition-software-reveal-social.html Read More

Computers learn to spot spam reviews - August 1, 2011

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-opinion-spam-online.html Read More

Computer learns how to play game from manual - July 15, 2011

http://www.kurzweilai.net/machine-learning-system-learns-language-by-playing-games?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=eeadd1f114-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email Read More

Controlling robots with Kinect - July 13, 2011

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2011/06/mf_kinect/all/1 Read More

Google wants to direct robots with Android and ROS - May 20, 2011

In Google’s I/O conference last week, Google launched ROSjava, a ROS (Robot Operating System) framework in Java which is also compatible with Android devices. Using the application could make the robots more efficient and inexpensive due to taking care of much of the computing in cloud. With the android control, the robot can also get sensor data from tablets or mobile devices, when the two […] Read More

Neuroscience and robot vision integration - May 19, 2011

http://www.kurzweilai.net/applying-neuroscience-to-robot-vision?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=3cfa36647f-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email Read More

AI outwrites human author in sports articles - May 8, 2011

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/17/135471975/robot-journalist-out-writes-human-sports-reporter Read More

Jeopardy Champ Watson to help in Healthcare Industry - March 18, 2011

IBM’s Watson computer, which became famous last month by beating human champions in Jeopardy, will be commercialized in Healthcare industry, according to a recent research and development agreement between IBM and Nuance Communications. The development project will combine Watson’s abilities in Language and Machine Learning and Nuance’s speech recognition and Clinical Language understanding abilities. The forecast for the first available commercial version is around 18-24 […] Read More

AI to race against humans in Jeopardy - December 16, 2010

It is very well known that the computers are able to beat humans in games such as chess, where the brute force calculation of the probable positions into the depth of so many moves ahead would make it invincible. However, brute force calculation will not solve the trick for many games, such Jeopardy, where an understanding of the question and language is required at least […] Read More