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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge and Sheffield are working on a new project over the next five years to develop new voice-activated devices that interact with people in a natural and intelligent way. According to a recent article from MSN UK, the researchers working on the project will use artificial intelligence technologies to create a system that can comprehend human speech and speak in a voice that mimics natural speech.Many potential applications have been identified for this technology including better voice-activated computers, a Web search engine for audio, and voice-controlled devices. This £6.2 million project is ...
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Friday, July 15, 2011
What does it really mean to love? Scientists at the National University of Singapore are working on a new project that is coming up against that question. The team’s mission is to create the possibility of love between a human and a robot. This project is called Lovotics, short for Love Robotics.In order to make this “love” a possibility, scientists have given a robot all of the “emotional and biological tools that human[s] have,” according to Clay Dillow in a recent article in Popular Science. “That means artificial hormones--dopamine, seratonin, oxytocin, endorphin--that ebb and flow based on how ...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
IGI Global would like to thank Dr. David Casacuberta for contributing this guest editorial post.When one thinks about wisdom, images of the Dalai Lama, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. or Nelson Mandela rapidly pop into mind. It is no wonder that the idea of artificial wisdom sounds nonsensical, if the implicit aim is to replicate any of these historical figures. It is something akin to expecting an artificial Einstein coming from an AI lab next week.There is nothing wrong with the concept of artificial wisdom. What is wrong is our expectations of it.To remediate that, I propose ...
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Friday, May 13, 2011
Look out Nevada: Google’s autonomous cars are making their way toward you! We learned about the beginnings of Google's ambitious project several months ago, and it is now becoming clear that Google is making its next move by slowly building a path to make their technology fully legal. Google has hired a lobbyist to promote legislation in Nevada that would allow the licensing and testing of autonomous vehicles and permit the operators of autonomous vehicles to legally send text messages while the car is in motion.This technology still seems to be far from mass production, but Google is ...
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Friday, April 15, 2011
IGI Global would like to thank Dr. David Casacuberta for contributing this guest editorial post.In a former entry on Artificial Wisdom, I described how a proper understanding of wisdom (human or artificial) was closely linked to the enactive paradigm, also known as the third generation of cognitive sciences. That seems to rule out any symbol-based approach to Artificial Wisdom. Today I want to argue that the opposite holds.In the 90s, when there was a big conceptual battle between the symbolic approach and the connectionist one in order to decide which theory was better suited to understand cognition, it ...
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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Machine learning is an interesting concept, but it can be a confusing idea to some people. To see an example of machine learning in action, visit http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/science/rock-paper-scissors.html?ref=science for a great interactive demonstration of a computer learning how to play Rock-Paper-Scissors. Whether you’d like to try this demo yourself, show it to a class, or recommend it to a friend, this is a helpful tool for audiences of all ages who could use a simple example of machine learning to help explain artificial intelligence concepts.If you set the computer to novice, the computer will play you in a game of ...
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Wednesday, March 09, 2011
IGI Global would like to thank Dr. David Casacuberta for contributing this guest editorial post.In the long run, Artificial Wisdom (AW) should be – following the ideas from Turing's seminal article "Computing Machinery and Intelligence” – about the creation of an artificial system that’s output, when viewed from the outside, could be considered to be "wise".I have no idea how to create such a creature; I don't even know whether it could be possible to create it. So, I now view AW just as the creation and development of computer models which try to mimic certain relevant characteristics ...
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Question: What is Watson?In a three day televised championship Watson, an impressive new IBM computer, beat two of the show’s best-known winners, Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Jennings became famous on Jeopardy! after winning 74 consecutive shows and setting the record for the longest winning streak. Rutter also became famous on the show after winning $3.3 million and setting the record for the most winnings on the show. (http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2010-12/ibms-triviabot-watson-take-ken-jennings-man-vs-machine-episode-jeopardy) Making its debut this week, Watson stunningly won $77,147, beating each of the other contestants by over $50,000.Although Watson does not have the thinking and ...
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Friday, February 11, 2011
IGI Global would like to thank Dr. Andrew Targowski for contributing this guest editorial post.Despite wisdom’s high status, the first sages had problems in dealing with it and stated that only God(s) have a privilege of having wisdom and that people must follow their wise recommendations. Even philosophers in modern times continue to think the same way, perhaps due to their disappointment of humans’ unwise dealings.In the last 100 years, the issue of wisdom was treated by science as intelligence. The index of Intelligence Quotient (IQ) was coined by the German psychologist William Stern in 1912. IQ scores ...
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Tuesday, January 25, 2011
IGI Global would like to thank Dr. David Casacuberta for contributing this guest editorial post.According to the Dalai Lama there is no reason to consider that a computer couldn't be enlightened. It is difficult even to imagine it now, and nobody is actually doing much research about it, but it is in synchrony with recent developments in Artificial Intelligence: the quest for a wise computer.In a sense, it is going back to the past, when we imagined computers like HAL 2000, an AI that spoke perfect English, played mean chess, had emotions, was self-conscious, and worried about its ...
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