Bridging sensory gap between artificial and real skin
"Smart" prosthetics still has a long road ahead. In the human, skin-based mechanoreceptors and thermoreceptors gather information streams from the environment but it is not so easy to create artificial...
View ArticleAI expert calls on colleagues to take a stand on autonomous killer robots
Artificial Intelligence expert and professor at the University of California, Stuart Russell, has published a Comment piece in the journal Nature, calling out colleagues to take a stand on the...
View ArticleHuman in chatbot mode: Interface study explores perceptions
Researchers Kevin Corti and Alex Gillespie of the London School of Economics and Political Science are delving into interesting human interface territory. If a "real" person speaks with chatbot...
View ArticleIBM Watson here to help you construct words you won't regret
The office door closes; the boss sits down to his PC and takes a deep breath. Time for employee memos. We're closing the Miami office. Pulling the plug on London's project. Forget the show in Vegas.
View ArticleD-Wave plays quantum computing role for Google, USRA, NASA
D-Wave Systems announced on Monday that it will provide its technology to Google, NASA and Universities Space Research Association's (USRA's) Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab.
View ArticleAI machine achieves IQ test score of young child
Some people might find it enough reason to worry; others, enough reason to be upbeat about what we can achieve in computer science; all await the next chapters in artificial intelligence to see what...
View ArticleStudy suggests a ten-fold efficiency increase possible when converting carbon...
A trio of researchers with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory working at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis has found that it should be possible to achieve an approximate ten-fold...
View ArticleNew artificial skin can detect pressure and heat simultaneously
A team of researchers with Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology and Dong-A University, both in South Korea, has developed an artificial skin that can detect both pressure and heat with a...
View ArticleAI service will boost Wikipedia's hunt for damaging edits
Bears can fly. Shoes taste like lemons. Swimming causes rabies.
View ArticleDeep neural networks trained on images help decide who is hot
The Computer Vision Laboratory, ETH Zurich, is branching out into a hotness-judging application leveraging its technology strengths in computer-based interpretation of 2D and 3D image data sets from...
View ArticleMachine-written speech reads like real political spiel
It's high time to stand up and be counted for...We need a true leader who will...Let's bring back honor and....Plain folks like you deserve to be... Issues and platforms aside, political campaign...
View ArticleDeepMind's AI team explores navigation powers with 3-D maze
Two players, an empty board, white and black circles that look like stones as playing pieces, and AI news around the world is made.
View ArticleResearchers use dark of night and machine learning to shed light on global...
One of the biggest challenges in fighting poverty is the lack of reliable information. In order to aid the poor, agencies need to map the dimensions of distressed areas and identify the absence or...
View ArticleAI crossword-solving application could make machines better at understanding...
A web-based machine language system solves crossword puzzles far better than commercially-available products, and may help machines better understand language.
View Article'Deep learning'—a giant step for robots
The prospect of robots that can learn for themselves—through artificial intelligence and adaptive learning—has fascinated scientists and movie-goers alike. Films like Short Circuit, Terminator,...
View ArticleDrive.ai to use deep learning smarts on autonomous cars on the road
(Tech Xplore)—Earlier this year, Fortune contributor Kirsten Korosec wrote that "A car's legal driver doesn't always have to be human, according to U.S. vehicle safety regulators—it can also be...
View ArticleBionic leaf turns sunlight into liquid fuel
The days of drilling into the ground in the search for fuel may be numbered, because if Daniel Nocera has his way, it'll just be a matter of looking for sunny skies.
View ArticleGoogle team taking upper hand if misbehaving AI agent attempts anything...
(Tech Xplore)—The twin effects of popular fiction (machines turning into killer squadrons) and scientific progress (machine learning) have made AI both exciting and scary in its future potential.
View ArticleHow insights into human learning can foster smarter artificial intelligence
Recent breakthroughs in creating artificial systems that outplay humans in a diverse array of challenging games have their roots in neural networks inspired by information processing in the brain. In a...
View ArticleResearchers create organic nanowire synaptic transistors that emulate the...
(Phys.org)—A team of researchers with the Pohang University of Science and Technology in Korea has created organic nanowire synaptic transistors that emulate the working principles of biological...
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