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French developers equip drone with ‘spaceship’ crowdsourcing app
European Space Agency scientists have developed a smartphone app that turns a toy drone into a virtual spacecraft on a mission to dock with the International Space Station, and uses crowd-sourced data from its manoeuvres to improve artificial intelligence on future missions. The free AstroDrone app for the iPhone and…
AI system diagnoses illnesses better than doctors
An artificial intelligence system developed by researchers at Indiana University can diagnose illnesses and prescribe courses of treatment significantly better than a human doctor, the university said Monday. Using a computerized decision making processes similar to IBM’s wiz computer “Watson” that won the game show “Jeopardy,” researchers plugged in big…
Why IBM’s ‘Watson’ supercomputer can’t speak slang
A supposedly sophisticated computer failed to correctly use the risque terms in Urban Dictionary. So is slang the last frontier for artificial intelligence? “OMG, that’s a bullshit question. Eat one, you doofus.” One as-yet-to-be-determined day in the future, computers will talk back to us in this manner. But, thankfully, it…
How artificial intelligence is changing our lives
How artificial intelligence is changing our lives In Silicon Valley, Nikolas Janin rises for his 40-minute commute to work just like everyone else. The shop manager and fleet technician at Google gets dressed and heads out to his Lexus RX 450h for the trip on California’s clotted freeways. That’s when…
AI robot: How machine intelligence is evolving
No computer can yet pass the ‘Turing test’ and be taken as human. But, says Marcus du Sautoy, the hunt for artificial intelligence is moving in a different, exciting direction that involves creativity, language – and even jazz. ‘I propose to consider the question “Can machines think?”‘ Not my question…
Father of slain journalist Daniel Pearl wins award for artificial intelligence
WASHINGTON — Judea Pearl, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, has been awarded the prestigious 2011 A.M. Turing Award. Pearl, 75, was being honored for “innovations that enabled remarkable advances in the partnership between humans and machines,” the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) said. The award, named for…
Japan unveils robot that will find lost things
TOKYO (Reuters) – Forgot where you put your glasses? A Japanese robot can find them for you, and guide you to where they are. The red and white robot, named EMIEW2, is about the size of a six-year-old child and glides everywhere on wheels at the bottom of its legs,…
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