Oh Wolfram Alpha, why don't more people love you? Despite the amazing calculations and information contained within the "computational knowledge engine", its traffic is...
Two months ago Wolfram Alpha launched its question answering engine in one of the most eagerly anticipated product launches of the year. Although sensationalists...
Boom! That is the sound skittering across the information industry landscape this week as IBM has suddenly stepped into the ring, proposing that its...
Imagine typing almost any question into a webpage or even voicing your question into a handheld device and instantly getting an accurate answer. In...
ROBOTICS:Â Rethink Robotics' Sawyer Goes on Sale, Rodney Brooks Says 'There May Be More Robots'
Erico Guizzo | IEEE Spectrum
"Sawyer can perform tasks that require 0.1 millimeters...
April 30 marks the deadline for a contest challenging software developers to create an automated scorer of student essays, otherwise known as a roboreader,...
This post was originally published on the Gravity and Levity Blog, and has been republished on Singularity Hub with permission from the author
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In this Part III of our Singularity Summit 2011 coverage, we'll highlight the speakers who talked about such topics as robotics, economics, and engaging...
New York City was host to geeks from all walks of life this past weekend, as scientists, engineers, futurists, and other forward-thinkers converged for...
In a press conference earlier today Google announced a bold and ambitious plan to automatically add computer generated captioning to all English videos on...
I just wrapped up an amazing weekend participating in the fourth annual scifoo gathering at Google headquarters (the Googleplex) in Mountain View, CA. The...
If you’ve ever wished you had a faster phone, computer, or internet connection, you’ve encountered the personal experience of hitting a limit of technology....
The hype around artificial intelligence has been building for years, and you could say it reached a crescendo with OpenAI’s recent release of ChatGPT...
Empowered by artificial intelligence technologies, computers today can engage in convincing conversations with people, compose songs, paint paintings, play chess and go, and diagnose...
The energy-generating potential of solar panels—and a key limitation on their use—is a result of what they’re made of. Panels made of silicon are...