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AI gets down to business
News We may not have a HAL-like computer system today, but AI is being used to enhance a wide variety of products and create new applications, and it is fuelling some of the latest hot Internet startups. One of the hottest frontiers for AI is e-commerce...
[January 23, 2001, 14:20]
Artificial Intelligence: The edge of research and beyond
News Some of these modules are very well understood — the visual cortex, for example, has been most amenable to study and we now know how a scene is broken down into its constituent parts by grids of neurons set to trigger on basic components.
[March 29, 2006, 18:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog It effortlessly swallows Internets, maps the world, dances lightly around Microsoft like a pink elephant around a binge drinker, and hints darkly about feeding some enormous AI hiding in its basement like a Giant Evil Brain from 50s Hollywood.
[November 18, 2005, 17:05]
AI: The story so far
News To date, researchers have only managed to achieve "Weak AI", as in creating machines with some aspects of human behaviour. In the centuries that have followed, myriad philosophers actively pondered some of the same questions addressed by present...
[January 23, 2001, 13:22]
Google side-steps AI rumours
News AI applications are using the infrastructure to get people useful information in interesting ways," said Sahami, according to reports. We want to combine information retrieval, large systems, and AI to work together towards the next generation of...
[November 15, 2005, 15:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The winner is a German program called Jabberwock - for some reason, Alice in Wonderland style nonsense prose is a popular reference among AI workers - and it is conveniently online for us all to play with.
[October 24, 2003, 15:15]
The machine that wanted to be a mind
News Because 50 years of failure eventually starts to affect funding, even in academia, the AI field has diversified and experts have established themselves in other areas where they can be said to have had some success.
[January 23, 2001, 13:45]
Enabling machines to reason like humans
News Claude Shannon and I had done this book called Automata Studies, and I had felt that not enough of the papers that were submitted to it were about artificial intelligence, so I thought I would try to think of some name that would nail the flag to...
[July 5, 2006, 16:00]
Intelligent machines threaten humankind
News Moore's Law, which states that processing power will double every 18 months, is set to continue for at least the next ten years, and quantum computers, though poorly understood at present, promise to add new tools to AI that may bypass some of the...
[January 23, 2001, 13:12]
Beyond AI: Creating the Conscience of the Machine review
Reviews Once he has reviewed the strands of where AI came from, he goes on to consider what it will take to get to truly intelligent machines. AI is the kind of subject that technical books often render so complicated that no one outside the field can...
[January 11, 2008, 8:26]
Smart security: network scanners
News At Cyc Corp.they freely admit to using AI. Some scanner makers, though, shy away from calling the process AI, at least partly for marketing reasons. As explained by Dave Cole, director of products at scanner vendor Foundstone in Mission Viejo, CA...
[November 6, 2002, 9:00]
Babies, burps and sat-nav software
Blog Shouldn’t awareness of the driver’s local knowledge through some degree of artificial intelligence (AI) be part of the next iteration of these units? I took a day out yesterday to visit my newly born niece just 25 hours after she decided it was...
[November 28, 2007, 8:20]
The Technological Singularity
Blog Comment A big jump from cloud computing to an AI becoming not only self-aware but able to control its environment. There was an argument some years ago that various scientific disciplines were arguing that once a creature became intelligent enough to...
[December 2, 2008, 11:28]
Viitrio Chess
Downloads Viitrio has designed Chess that are easier to defeat than other AI available on market. But for sure, you must have at least some skill to win it. Try it now for sure.
[February 20, 2009, 12:51]
Is the world ready for the self-aware robot?
News The whole idea that we want to - at least some of us want to - understand other beings and otherness. Their efforts to re-create human intelligence in hardware and software have led to some very smart machines - just think of IBM's Deep Blue...
[April 12, 2005, 19:25]
Freak Othello
Downloads It features difficulty levels from amateur to grand master, plus some functions for analyzing positions. Freak is an Othello program with a strong AI and clean graphics. No messy installation is required.
[October 20, 2005, 1:38]
I’m turning Taiwanese (I really think so)
Blog Comment I hope that all OSs will end up with some kind of AI that can scan any hardware when it's attatched and then find a way to write the drivers themselves to make the devices work in the most efficient way.
[October 8, 2008, 11:27]
Aces Texas Hold'em--No Limit
Downloads Try to read player faces as they attempt to take you to the river for some fast-pased poker action. Aces Texas Hold'em - No Limit has been described as having the best AI of any Texas Hold'em poker game available, with human-like...
[February 14, 2007, 22:57]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Called the Atom Project, it will run for thirty years and cost around ten billion quid -- thus ensuring a long life for the old AI joke about it being easier and quicker to do the job with unskilled labour.
[August 29, 2003, 19:05]
Num Fight
Downloads This game features challenging AI that tries to mess you up, two Player mode (with screen flip option), configurable Game Board Generator, cool sounds and animation, stats on your current win/loss streaks.
[March 7, 2009, 8:01]
