AI
Google's self-driving cars have been in 11 accidents, but none were the car's fault, Google asserts
Posted in Software on 12th May, 2015
by Alex Muller
There have been 11 accidents in total, all minor, which Google asserts were never the fault of the car.
IBM's Watson artificial intelligence to speed up cancer care
Posted in Software on 6th May, 2015
by Alex Muller
IBM's supercomputer Watson will be used to make decisions about cancer care in 14 hospitals in the US and Canada, it has been announced.
MIT is Developing an AI Cancer Diagnosis System
Posted in Software on 26th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller
Diagnosing cancer is a depressingly common activity in hospitals, but spotting subtle variations in tumour types can require sifting through hundreds of previous cases.
IBM creates a research group to test Numenta, a brain-like AI software
Posted in Science on 16th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller
'Our goal is not to be biologically inspired; I want to re-create exactly; this is how you would really build a machine intelligence.'
Bee brain simulation used to pilot a drone
Posted in Software on 15th Apr, 2015
by Alex Muller
The aim of the project is to completely reproduce a bee's brain in digital form, allowing at some point, a flying robot to function as the real thing with onlookers none the wiser.