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Tag: Artificial Intelligence
Israeli wearable tech promises improved vision for the partially blind
Futuristic wearable technology is revolutionizing present day health care industry. The latest innovation to harness miniature computer technology is a wearable device developed by OrCam, an Israeli startup company. Established in 2010,…
OpenAI Initiative is Just the Shot in the Arm AI Research Desperately Needs
For a billionaire looking to leave a lasting impact on the future of humanity, Elon Musk probably couldn’t have chosen a better field than AI research. There is something inherently seductive about…
Minecraft is Being Used to Test Artificial Intelligence
Microsoft, the owner of the runaway hit video game Minecraft, has announced that it will be using Minecraft as a space to build, develop, and test new artificial intelligence programs. The new…
Go World Champion Has Been Defeated by an Artificial Intellegence
Earlier today artificial intelligence development won another victory with the defeat of Lee Sedol, the world champion of the ancient game of Go. Go, a 3,000 year old Chinese game, has long been…
Software beats humans at identifying subject of sketches
Researchers have developed a software capable of recognising sketches with an accuracy of 74.9 per cent leaving behind real human counterparts who only managed to identify sketches with a success rate of…
British scientists developing microphone system to help robots ‘hear better’
Ever wondered what will it be like for a robot placed in a room full of people that are talking to each other in in the middle of all that someone is…
Killer drones “feasible within years, not decades”, professor warns
Automated weapons with their own intelligence aren’t too far away and they could be built and commissioned in matter of years, not decades, a professor has warned while adding that these weapons…
Robots can adapt like animals; can recover from injury in less the 2 minutes
Robots hold the promise of efficiency and will one day hugely benefit us by performing tasks which are impossible for humans, but that won’t be a reality until these automated machines learn…
Researchers develop algorithms that enable robots to learn motor skills through
Algorithms developed by University of California, Berkeley has enabled robots to learn motor tasks through trial and error using a process that more closely approximates the way humans learn, marking a major…
Poker pros win against AI, but experts peg match as statistical draw
Good news for humans! We haven’t yet been surpassed in intelligence by computer programs as a two-day poker showdown between four of the world’s best players of heads-up no-limit Texas Hold’em and…
Metadata-slurping Microsoft’s How-old.net garners instant attention
In a curiosity-inducing machine learning project that relies on face recognition technology, Microsoft has released an age guessing website dubbed How-old.net which tries to guess the age of people through their photos,…
CMU’s poker software to take on world’s best professional players
Get ready for some for computer vs. human action as a computer poker software developed at Carnegie Mellon University will challenge four of the world’s best professional poker players – Doug Polk,…
Google’s DeepMind AI triumphs in Atari challenge; pegged superior than Watson
Researchers over at Google’s DeepMind AI division have unveiled an algorithm that has not only taught itself to play 49 different Atari video games, but has also managed to find out optimal…
‘Self-aware’ Super Mario now plays game his own way
A team of German researchers have developed an artificial intelligence project that allows popular video-game character Mario to learn about his environment, respond to commands and make decisions based on given instructions….