Tag: artificial intelligence
The Digest: Microsoft kills Clip Art… and 4 other things people are talking about today
Google buys a British artificial intelligence firm… when will they announce a date for Judgement Day?
Google have this morning announced that they've bought themselves a new toy: a British artificial intelligence firm called DeepMind. According to the International Business Times, they paid a massive $400m (or £242m) for it. Just what are they planning? This…
Supercomputer beats human at "Go", celebrates with a Tsingtao
When they’re not playing the perfect game of draughts or proving they can solve the Rubik’s Cube more efficiently than you, I’ve heard that supercomputers like nothing better than a salubrious game of “Go”.
As much as anything, they enjoy the irony of playing a game that’s eons older than they are…
RoboCop could be a reality on Britain's streets before the 22nd century
The top bod studying artificial intelligence and robotics believes that we could have robot security guards, autonomous police cars, and humanoid traffic wardens patrolling Britain’s streets within the next 75 years.
Professor Noel Sharkey of the University of Sheffield has been studying the evolution of robots and how they’ll be increasingly used in modern society.
Robots will have access to integrated databases of information on Brits’ bank accounts, tax, vehicles, shopping history, criminal records, and even what they’re doing. This would then allow them to identify who people are (accurately, hopefully)…
Google working on improved image searching for a trillion online pictures
According to Google, almost one trillion images now exist online, thanks to the explosion in popularity of digital cameras and camera phones. and the company is looking at ways to improve how users can search for the pictures they want.
Currently, Google’s image search relies on textual information stored in and around images on web pages. This is fine to a point, but not only does it have the potential to be abused by people trying to make their web pages more popular, but it relies on a human to correctly categorise a picture and what it contains…
Computers taught to tell 'Am I hot or not' in new AI study
“Not tonight darlin’, I’m defragging my hard drive.” That will be what your computer says to you soon when it deems you too ugly to touch its keys.
Yes, it seems our beloved piles of chips and printed circuit boards now know what’s hot and what’s not in the human world after researchers at Tel Aviv University managed to teach a computer how to judge physical attractiveness in women…
Robots to take over the world! Or, perhaps, just help you solve The Times' crossword
Relax! Intelligent robots and computers aren’t going to take over the human race ((at least, I don’t think so), but they are likely to get a lot more advanced, and could well end up providing a built-in intelligence boost for us mere mortals.
According to Ray Kurzweil — one of 18 influential thinkers chosen by the US National Academy of Engineering to identify the great technological challenges facing humanity in the 21st century — by the year 2029, machines will have artificial intelligence as advanced as humans.
(Or the year 2016 to match Sun readers. Ouch! Kidding!)
The $75,000 Swami Conversational Robot understands you
This, even though it doesn’t look it, is a “cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence robot.”
It has the ability to recognise family members’ faces thanks to having cameras for eyes, so presumably can switch itself off and pretend to be broken…
Careful how you blog, the US Government might be analysing you
As if it's not bad enough that your bosses could find out about your anonymous blogging, the US Government could soon be using automated robots to track down what you write and attribute it to you. Researchers at the University…
Artificial Intelligence meets remote-control cars and lasers. Fun-and-a-half
Watch out, for these are not your every day remote control mini cars. For one, they're fitted with infrared laser technology, and for the other, they're not only remote controlled, but can be switched into Artificial Intelligence mode. These…
