A computer program that learns to decode language sounds in a similar way to a baby could shed new light on how humans acquire the ability to talk. It casts doubt on the idea that babies are born with an innate understanding of all possible language sounds.
The debate in language acquisition is around how much specific information about language is hard-wired into the brain of the infant, and how much is something that can be explained by relatively general purpose learning systems.
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Software Finds Learning Language Child's Play
| 297 CommentsCategory: news article from http://www.newscientisttech.com
What Would You do With 80 Cores?
An Intel developer discussed model-based computing, and how this relates to multi-core architectures.
"Like the human brain itself, these intelligent applications lend themselves to parallel processing. 80-cores would change the game in a broader sense than just hardware — it will enable new application possibilities."
| 508 Comments"Like the human brain itself, these intelligent applications lend themselves to parallel processing. 80-cores would change the game in a broader sense than just hardware — it will enable new application possibilities."
Category: blog post from http://blogs.intel.com
Apply AI 2007 Roundtable Report
The Apply AI Innovations 2007 conference drew together programmers from the games industry, students and professors from academia. The AI in games roundtable covered topics such as intelligent replanning, learning AI, debugging strategies, and opinions on current tools.
| 128 CommentsCategory: blog post from http://aigamedev.com
Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time
Dr. Ben Goertzel's talk at Google, discussing his own work on the Novamente Cognition Engine, an AGI project based on combining a number of knowledge representations and reasoning and learning techniques into an integrative architecture motivated by complex systems theory, and initially oriented at the control of virtual agents in 3D simulation worlds such as Second Life.
| 105 CommentsCategory: interview from http://video.google.com
jKilavuz - a guide in the polygon soup
First public version of jKilavuz is released.
jKilavuz is a path engine for Java. It consists of an extensible set of tools for collecting pathfind data and finding and executing paths. Despite the complexness of subject it is designed for ease of use.
| 107 CommentsjKilavuz is a path engine for Java. It consists of an extensible set of tools for collecting pathfind data and finding and executing paths. Despite the complexness of subject it is designed for ease of use.
Category: library from http://www.jkilavuz.com
Neural Network Creates Music CD
Computers have composed music before, but those efforts were little more than high-tech mixed tapes. Most computer composers have been taught rules of music through extensive programming or by breaking down works of human musicians and creating new pieces from the parts.
Instead, these Creativity Machine are untrained artificial intelligence computer known as a neural network. The neurons in the computer brain are mathematical entities instead of brain cells. The creative process starts by tweaking the mathematical connections between the neurons. That set off a cascade of calculations that were translated as sounds.
| 228 CommentsInstead, these Creativity Machine are untrained artificial intelligence computer known as a neural network. The neurons in the computer brain are mathematical entities instead of brain cells. The creative process starts by tweaking the mathematical connections between the neurons. That set off a cascade of calculations that were translated as sounds.
Category: news article from http://www.stltoday.com
Decision Making for Medical Support
In April, the two-year-old RHIO began offering a clinical decision-support service through ActiveHealth Management, a New York-based company. ActiveHealth's CareEngine technology compares patients' medical, pharmacy and laboratory claims against established standards of care. It then notifies a physician if it finds an opportunity to improve a patient's treatment.
For example, CareEngine can alert physicians to potential adverse drug interactions, overlooked lab tests or the availability of beneficial drugs, according to ActiveHealth.
| 120 CommentsFor example, CareEngine can alert physicians to potential adverse drug interactions, overlooked lab tests or the availability of beneficial drugs, according to ActiveHealth.
Category: news article from http://www.fcw.com
Interview with Peter Denning on the Principles of Computing
A computing visionary and leader of the movement to define and elucidate the "great principles of computing," Peter J. Denning is a professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is a former president of the ACM.
""Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers claimed that the mind is a computational process. When they discovered the rules of the process, a computer that followed the same rules would be conscious and intelligent. This claim, often called "strong AI", is not falsifiable. In the past two decades, mainstream AI has focused on falsifiable claims, such as "a neural net can be trained to read handwritten addresses from postal envelopes." In the older terminology, this was called 'weak AI', but it has transformed AI into a strong scientific enterprise.""
| 94 Comments""Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers claimed that the mind is a computational process. When they discovered the rules of the process, a computer that followed the same rules would be conscious and intelligent. This claim, often called "strong AI", is not falsifiable. In the past two decades, mainstream AI has focused on falsifiable claims, such as "a neural net can be trained to read handwritten addresses from postal envelopes." In the older terminology, this was called 'weak AI', but it has transformed AI into a strong scientific enterprise.""
Category: interview from http://www.acm.org
