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FOXNews.com - Scientists: Computers May Soon Be Smarter Than Humans - Technology News | News On Technology
According to this article, we are approaching the point of "singularity" with regard to computing that would logically reach a level where computers are smarter than humans. Links to other research articles and institutes included in the main article.
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AITECH, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
The AITECH is Polish company producing AI software. It was set up in 1990 by dr. Krzysztof Michalik. The company provides among others hybrid expert system shell - PC-Shell, AI software package - SPHINX and intelligent decision support system - Aitech DSS.
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Artificial Intelligence Courses Match Growing Industry Demands
Most people don't realise the extent to which AI is already used in our everyday lives, believes Browne. "For instance, AI is used in supermarkets to work out what products should be placed with other products, and whether certain products should be stacked verticially or horizontally. Companies invest a huge amount in AI in these kinds of ways to get people to spend a bit more money."
Little wonder that a growing number of universities across the UK are running degrees in the subject. The kinds of people best suited to them, says Browne, are people with a basic interest in engineering and computer science, combined with a curiosity of how animals, including humans, function and how intelligent behaviours are created - and, of course, more than a passing interest in rights for robots.
| 118 CommentsLittle wonder that a growing number of universities across the UK are running degrees in the subject. The kinds of people best suited to them, says Browne, are people with a basic interest in engineering and computer science, combined with a curiosity of how animals, including humans, function and how intelligent behaviours are created - and, of course, more than a passing interest in rights for robots.
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Chatting By Recognising Patterns
Most chatbots rely on fairly simple tricks to appear lifelike. Richard Wallace, creator of the top-ranked chatbot ALICE (Artificial Linguistic Internet Computer Entity), has handwritten a database of thousands of possible conversational gambits. Type a comment to ALICE, and it checks the phrase and its key words for a response coded to those words. In contrast, Jabberwacky, another top-rated Internet bot produced by Rollo Carpenter, keeps track of everything people have said to it, and tries to reuse those statements by matching them to the writer’s input. Neither chatbot has long-term memory, so they respond only to the last sentence written.
Nonetheless, these simple gambits can produce surprisingly intelligent-seeming conversations. That’s because they rely on a trick of human psychology: We humans tend to attribute much more intelligence to the systems than is actually there. If
| 149 CommentsNonetheless, these simple gambits can produce surprisingly intelligent-seeming conversations. That’s because they rely on a trick of human psychology: We humans tend to attribute much more intelligence to the systems than is actually there. If
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Top Five Neuro-Science Developments of the Year
The human brain has spent its evolutionary history learning about everything else in the world. Since last summer, it has learned quite a bit about itself. It has discovered lots of things about female sexuality, incest, psychopaths, IQ, brain death, addiction, compulsive buying, and how to remotely control animals through cranial implants. But five major trends and breakthroughs stand out.
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Outsmarting Wall Street Traders
Computer scientists are seeking to strip human emotions like fear and greed out of investing. Already a third of all U.S. stock trades in 2006 were driven by automatic programs, or algorithms. By 2010, estimates project that figure at 50 percent.
"We want to be able to ask a computer, 'Tell me about the merger of corporation A and corporation B,' or 'Tell me about the impact on the markets of sending more troops to
Iraq.'" Today, AI programs can solve specific problems within such a set of parameters.
| No Comments"We want to be able to ask a computer, 'Tell me about the merger of corporation A and corporation B,' or 'Tell me about the impact on the markets of sending more troops to
Iraq.'" Today, AI programs can solve specific problems within such a set of parameters.
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Computers Reading the Markets
To a new breed of AI programs trading securities automatically, tracking the latest news headlines could be a means of making a huge sum of money. Hedge funds and investment bank trading desks are pouring unprecedented sums into such technology to find faster and more inventive ways to outsmart their rivals.
News has always affected market prices. And there already are software programs that track headlines and alert traders if certain market-sensitive terms frequently appear. "Hurricane" could signal a shift to sell insurance stocks. "Drought" could affect wheat prices.
| 107 CommentsNews has always affected market prices. And there already are software programs that track headlines and alert traders if certain market-sensitive terms frequently appear. "Hurricane" could signal a shift to sell insurance stocks. "Drought" could affect wheat prices.
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Getting Serious about Face and Iris Recognition
The federal government has pressed the private sector to improve facial and iris recognition technology dramatically so as to pave the way for improved biometric systems, and NIST has overseen the process in tests called the Face Recognition Vendor Test (FRVT) 2006 and the Iris Challenge Evaluation (ICE) 2006.
The facial-recognition test has compared vendor systems on in their ability to recognize high-resolution still images and three-dimensional facial images, under both controlled and uncontrolled illumination. The NIST evaluation team reported major differences in the speed at which different facial- recognition algorithms processed iris images. One of the mathematical routines, called Cambridge-2, processed the experimental iris data in six hours.
| 77 CommentsThe facial-recognition test has compared vendor systems on in their ability to recognize high-resolution still images and three-dimensional facial images, under both controlled and uncontrolled illumination. The NIST evaluation team reported major differences in the speed at which different facial- recognition algorithms processed iris images. One of the mathematical routines, called Cambridge-2, processed the experimental iris data in six hours.
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