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Tag Archives: ai
Computer Algorithm Used To Make Movie For Sundance Film Festival
Indie movie makers can be a strange bunch, pushing the envelope of their craft and often losing us along the [...]
Posted in AI, Art, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged ai, algorithm, Art, eve sussman, rufus corporation
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A Look At BMW’s Semi-Autonomous Driving Car
While robotic cars have a ways to go yet before rolling (themselves) out onto showroom floors, BMW is incorporating driver [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged ai, autonomous vehicle, bmw, connecteddesign connect, driverless car, google
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Sebastian Thrun Aims to Revolutionize University Education With Udacity
This past August fellow Singularity Hub writer Aaron Saenz wrote about Udacity, the online university created by Stanford artificial intelligence [...]
Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged ai, kahn academy, online education, peter norvig, Sebastian Thrun, udacity, university 2.0
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Rollin’ Justin Robot Gets Agile, Learns How To Throw A Ball (video)
Where was Agile Justin last year when we needed him to throw out the first pitch at a Philadelphia Phillies [...]
Posted in AI, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged agile justin, ai, DLR, humanoid robot, robot, robotics, Robots, Rollin Justin
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Google’s AI Challenge: Who Can Build The Smartest Ant Colony
Want to prove to Google that you’ve got some serious programming chops? Then you better prepare yourself for war. Ant [...]
Posted in AI, Video Central
Tagged ai, AI challenge, Fall 2011, Google AI Challenge, University of Waterloo
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Robot: I Now Have Common Sense. Engineer: Great, Go Fetch Me a Sandwich!
Willow Garage’s gifted PR2 robot just got even smarter. Developers from the University of Tokyo and the Technical University of [...]
Posted in AI, Robots, Video Central
Tagged ai, android, PR2, robot, robotics, Robots, Technical University of Munchen, university of tokyo, Willow Garage
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Supercomputer Predicts Revolution
A new type of software has been shown to predict revolutions by mining news reports around the world. Retrospectively mining [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Singularity
Tagged ai, arab spring, bin ladin, culturomics, kalev leetaru
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From Jeopardy! to Insurance – IBM’s Watson AI Hired by WellPoint For Medical Expertise
Ever feel like the people reviewing your claims at the insurance company are a bunch of faceless, mindless drones? Well [...]
Posted in AI, Longevity And Health, Video Central
Tagged ai, healthcare, ibm, insurance, watson, WellPoint
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AI Journalist Writes Sports and Now Everything Else. StatSheet Raises $4M, Changes Name and Focus
I have met my replacement and it is a robot. A robot obsessed with sports. AI journalism pioneer StatSheet gained [...]
Posted in AI, Art, Video Central
Tagged ai, AI creativity, AI journalism, AI writing, Automated Insight, Statsheet
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AI vs. AI – What Happens When You Make a Chatty Computer Talk To Itself? Cornell Finds Out
I can think of few things as annoying as being forced into a conversation with an idiot. But when that [...]
Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces, Video Central
Tagged ai, chatbot, chatterbot, cleverbot, Cornell Creative Machines Lab
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Pre-Cog Is Real – New Software Stops Crime Before It Happens
The police officers arrived at the parking garage in downtown Santa Cruz and spotted two women behaving suspiciously. No crime [...]
Posted in AI, Longevity And Health, Singularity
Tagged ai, algorithm, burglary, crime, density map, george mohler, predictive policing
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A True War Veteran, The AR100B Drone Chopper Has Logged More Than 1,200 Missions In Afghanistan
At less than a kilogram total weight, a max payload of 200 grams, and just one meter in diameter the [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity
Tagged ai, AirRobot, AR100B, robotics, telerobot
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Google’s Driverless Car Causes Accident – Due To Human Error
As if to spite me just days after I was gushing about Google’s driverless Toyota Prius, they go and rear-end [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity
Tagged accident, ai, driverless car, google, toyota prius
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Lawyers Object As Computer Program Does Job Better
First doctors, now lawyers. I can hear them now: “I didn’t go through all those years of school just to [...]
Posted in AI, Computer Interfaces, Gadgets, Singularity
Tagged ai, e-discovery, electronic discovery, information overload, Lawyerbot, lawyers
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This Humanoid Robot’s Comin’ At You Like A Spider Monkey! (video)
If you’re going to get past the Christiano Ronaldos of the world, you’re going to have to run fast. In [...]
Best Toy On The Block: Nao Humanoid Robot Plays Card Games With Kids
The Nao Developer Program is making the robot more human-like every day. Just last month Nao robot developer Carl Clement [...]
An Inside Look Into The Amazon.com Warehouses (video)
What do you do when the CEO wants you to build a delivery system for pretty much anything that will [...]
Robot To Throw Out First Pitch Today At Phillies Game
On May 29, 2010, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay threw a perfect game. It was only the twentieth time ever [...]
Kurzweil Is Confident Machines Will Pass Turing Test by 2029 (video)
It continues to be a good Spring for Ray Kurzweil. Not only has the media been rather kind to him [...]
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Tagged 2029, ai, david orban, Ken Jennings, Long Bet, Mitch Kapor, ray kurzweil, singularity summit, turing test, watson
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The Most Human Human, Discusses Turing Test on Daily Show
How human are you? It’s a question that strikes me as both absurd and deeply important. Brian Christian probably would [...]
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Tagged ai, brian christian, jon stewart, Loebner Prize, the daily show, The Most Human Human, turing test
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It’s Showtime: IBM’s Watson To Make History On Jeopardy!
Today, February 14, 2011, IBM’s Watson computer system is slated to take on the world’s best humans in a televised [...]
Ford To Make Roads Safer By Networking Cars Together Wirelessly (Video)
With auto technology getting more and more advanced every day, we are often looking to our cars to do the [...]
Will Vicarious Systems’ Silicon Valley Pedigree Help it Build AI?
Facebook, Space X, Numenta…Vicarious? In Silicon Valley the pedigree for a startup can make or break it. Vicarious Systems is [...]