March 27, 2014 Matthew Haugen PULLMAN, Wash. – Researchers in Washington State University’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science have developed a method to allow a computer to give advice and teach skills to another computer in a way that… Read More ›
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2029: the year when robots will have the power to outsmart their makers
Ray Kurzweil, Google expert in artificial intelligence, predicts that by 2029 robots will make jokes and flirt Nadia Khomani The Observer, Saturday 22 February 2014 16.00 EST Computers will be cleverer than humans by 2029, according to Ray Kurzweil, Google’s director… Read More ›
New Terminator-style ‘bots can self-assemble, leap, climb and SWARM
Creepy, limbless – MIT roboticists flywheel paves way for tiny, cube-shaped overlords By Brid-Aine Parnell, 7th October 2013 Rise of The Machines Roboticists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a range of self-assembling cube robots, which have no external… Read More ›
Artificial intelligence ‘will take the place of humans within five years’
Salespeople, call centre staff and customer service personnel could all be replaced by computers within the next few years, claims one technology entrepreneur. Steven Spielberg’s 2001 film Artificial Intelligence (AI) depicts a future where robots have become eerily human…. Read More ›
Navy Seeks To Map the Mind
May. 17, 2013 – 03:50PM By Michael Peck In some visions of the future, you’ll drive your car with little more than your mind. Electrodes on your head, you can climb into your car, think about how much you’d like… Read More ›
Will machines kill mankind? Cambridge academics want to know
Academics highlight threat of super-intelligent technology James Legge Monday, 26 November 2012 Academics at Cambridge University are pondering the risk to humanity from super-intelligent technology which could “threaten our own existence.” Huw Price, Bertrand Russell Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge,… Read More ›
U.S. Army Sponsored Artificial Intelligence Surveillance System Attempts to Predict The Future
10/29/2012 @ 5:12AM |4,088 views In something that looks straight out of the CBS show “Person of Interest“, the science website Phsy.org is reporting on a potentially important breakthrough from researchers at Carnegie Mellon. In research sponsored by… Read More ›
Robots That Perceive the World Like Humans
ScienceDaily (Oct. 18, 2012) — Perceive first, act afterwards.The architecture of most of today’s robots is underpinned by this control strategy. The eSMCs project has set itself the aim of changing the paradigm and generating more dynamic computer models in… Read More ›
Futurist Ray Kurzweil Wants to Move Your Brain Into the Cloud
Oct 11, 2012 10:34 AM EST By Michael J. Miller Above: Futurist Ray Kurzweil Ray Kurzweil, author of The Age of Spiritual Machines and a pioneer of artificial intelligence software, has always been one of the most provocative thinkers on… Read More ›
Philosophy will be the key that unlocks artificial intelligence
AI is achievable, but it will take more than computer science and neuroscience to develop machines that think like people David Deutsch guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 3 October 2012 02.00 EDT The defining attribute of an intelligent being, whether human… Read More ›
‘Green Brain’ Project to Create an Autonomous Flying Robot With a Honey Bee Brain
ScienceDaily (Oct. 1, 2012) — Scientists at the Universities of Sheffield and Sussex are embarking on an ambitious project to produce the first accurate computer models of a honey bee brain in a bid to advance our understanding of Artificial… Read More ›
How artificial intelligence is changing our lives
By The Christian Science Monitor Sunday, September 16, 2012 13:38 EDT 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… Read More ›
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