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Humans Beat AI In Robot Wars
News The online Sodarace competition, created by the Queen Mary University of London, pitched virtual robots created by humans against those designed by artificial intelligence. But it was a machine developed using trial and error in Canada that struck...
[November 28, 2003, 12:30]
Skin Color In Humans
Talkback "The S3 could also potentially be programmed to identify things as specific as skin colour in humans. Oooh, great. I've been looking AGES for a system that will sound an alarm when a Mexican walks onto my yard.
[November 8, 2006, 9:08]
Chip Design: Humans Not Allowed
News In a world where semiconductor designers can't keep up with the demand for their services, Hewlett-Packard researchers are working on letting computers design themselves. The Silicon Valley stalwart, opening the doors to its HP Labs on Tuesday...
[June 13, 2001, 14:56]
Enabling Machines To Reason Like Humans
News A goal in AI is not so much to make machines be like humans, having human intellectual capabilities, but to have the equivalent of human intellectual capabilities, correct? In other words, not reinventing the human but creating something that...
[July 5, 2006, 16:00]
Talking PCs Make Progress
News Machines that listen and talk like humans are becoming a reality, many researchers and executives say. Deciphering our babble One challenge is that humans typically don't follow rigid rules when speaking.
[July 9, 2003, 11:17]
Under-skin ID Tags Generate Concerns
News There's not a lot of middle ground on the subject of implanting electronic identification chips in humans. An estimated 1,000 have been inserted in humans, mostly outside the US, with no harmful physical side effects reported from the subcutaneous...
[August 23, 2004, 15:05]
RFID Tags May Be Implanted In Patients' Arms
News VeriChip, the company that makes radio-frequency identification -- RFID -- tags for humans, has moved one step closer to getting its technology into hospitals. The idea for employing the tags to identify humans came after the horror of the 11...
[July 28, 2004, 12:00]
IPods Are Security Risk, Warns Analyst
Talkback Headline: Humans Are the Real Security Risk These humans have ways of stealing, ranging from good 'ol copy machine use to the use of IPODs to store company data. By not letting humans access to the network, a company can keep it more secure.
[July 6, 2004, 23:00]
Hawking Warns Of AI World Takeover
News Renowned British scientist Stephen Hawking has claimed that humans should be genetically engineered if they are to compete with the phenomenal growth of artificial intelligence. Hawking predicted last year that genetic engineers would be able to...
[September 3, 2001, 12:10]
Optimizing Itanium Processor Family Assembly Code
White Papers Compiler technology has advanced to the point where compilers can create assembly and machine language almost as well as humans can. However, Compilers still cannot assume away certain conditions that humans can, and often include instructions that...
[May 30, 2004, 0:00]
Can A Chip Help Computers See In 3D?
News A Silicon Valley start-up believes it can improve computer vision by combining a custom-designed chip with the way humans see. A large fraction of the brains of primates such as monkeys, apes and humans is devoted to processing visual information...
[July 3, 2002, 8:07]
Extinction Beckons For The PDA
Leader The world of palaeontology is in uproar this week over the discovery of a completely unexpected species of prehistoric humans. Three feet high and with a tiny brain, Homo floresiensis lived on an isolated Indonesian island and is thought to have...
[October 29, 2004, 12:04]
Spammers Use Free Porn To Bypass Hotmail Protection
News Spammers are bypassing a security protection that is designed to stop automated bots from automatically opening Web mail accounts, by offering humans access to free porn. In order to combat this automation, Web mail companies started using the...
[May 6, 2004, 18:00]
Subcutaneous RFID Tags Upset Privacy Advocates
News Privacy advocates are outraged at the US Food and Drug Administrations' approval of using RFID chips inside humans for medical purposes. According to Applied Digital Systems, the US-based company that makes the chips, the FDA approved its RFID...
[October 15, 2004, 11:40]
Poor Technology Blamed For Longer Working Hours
Talkback When first read this, I thought than humans are not technology designed and it was an ad for Plastic Surgery. Unlike compufers, humans are designed to think and improve their own ways of do9ing things better.
[August 30, 2003, 23:58]
Animal Disease Surveillance: A Framework For Supporting Disease Detection In Public Health
White Papers As such, it is important to understand how animal disease affects humans and how this information can be obtained and monitored on a regular and timely basis. Animals as a source of infectious diseases in humans is referred to as zoonoses.
[February 23, 2005, 23:00]
Can A Human Love A Robot?
News Sociable humanoid robots could soon be intelligent enough to enter the household as pets or companions, but cybernetics experts dispute the prospect of meaningful relationships ever forming between humans and their artificial chums.
[January 23, 2001, 14:01]
Anti-spam Tool Helps Digitise Books
News The project is a variation of the widely used "Captcha" (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) technique used to weed out computer abuse such as emailing spam or posting spam on blog comments.
[May 25, 2007, 13:11]
Humanity: Computing's Biggest Problem
News Those at the event said they are benefiting from improvements in the tools that track how technology and humans interact. A team of computer scientists, academics and others gathered this week at IBM's Almaden Research Centre to swap ideas on how...
[July 17, 2003, 10:10]
ALICE Talks Her Way To Victory In AI Challenge
News Developed since 1995 by Dr Richard Wallace of the ALICE AI Foundation, ALICE is a conversational robot; during the competition, judges typed questions at the candidate software in an attempt to have a conversation as if with humans.
[October 16, 2001, 14:38]
