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.