artificial intelligence

Stephen Hawking, inset, says the new Johnny Depp film Transcendence helps illustrate the perils and potential of AI.
Hawking: AI breakthrough could end civilisation

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. With the Hollywood

There is currently no consensus on how closely the brain should be simulated. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Chess robots to cause Judgment Day? Be Careful What You Program For . . .

Next time you play a computer at chess, think about the implications if you beat

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Knowledge transfer: Computers teach each other Pac-Man

Researchers in Washington State University’s School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science have developed a

English: An industrial robot, which writes down the bible on rolls of paper. The machine draws the calligraphic lines with high precision. Like a monk in the scriptorium it creates step by step the text. Deutsch: Ein Industrieroboter schreibt mit einer Schreibfeder handschriftlich die Bibel auf Papierrollen nieder. Mit Präzision führt die Maschine die kalligrafischen Linen aus, und läßt so, wie ein Mönch im klösterlichen Scriptorium, nach und nach den Text entstehen. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Do you know whether this press release was written by a human?

A recent study investigates how readers perceive computer-generated news articles. The advent of new technologies

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What Machines Can’t Do

We’re clearly heading into an age of brilliant technology. Computers are already impressively good at

Planning for Decentralized Control of Multiple Robots Under Uncertainty VIDEO COURTESY OF THE RESEARCHERS
Herding robots

A new system combines simple control programs to enable fleets of robots — or other

4 Ways That IBM’s Watson Could Transform How Humans Think And Make Decisions

Watson may have won Jeopardy, but the supercomputer’s real-world uses–in medicine, education, and beyond–are only now

EmoSPARK: An “artificial intelligence console” that wants to make you happy

For as long as we’ve been imagining emotionally intelligent machines, we have pictured something at

Doctoral Student from Netherlands Studies How to Evolve Artificial Brains to Mimic Those in Animals

Joost Huizinga watches the six-legged “spider bot” he created scuttle across his computer screen. At

VIDEO: Elementary, Watson: The Rise of the Anthropomorphic Machine

Intelligence is a subjective word. For instance, if a computer can beat a human chess

Our Final Invention: Is AI the Defining Issue for Humanity?

Humanity today faces incredible threats and opportunities: climate change, nuclear weapons, biotechnology, nanotechnology, and much,

A holistic approach catches eye disease early

An automated assessment of multiple datasets using artificial intelligence accurately diagnoses a common cause of

World’s Largest Artificial Neural Network

NVIDIA has collaborated with a research team at Stanford University to create the world’s largest