AI

$4 Million in funding to develop Artificial General Intelligence
Posted in Software on 22nd Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
AGI is the AI discipline concerned with developing systems with human-like cognitive abilities such as general learning, reasoning, and problem solving.

The latest innovations from Microsoft's media event:
Posted in Software on 22nd Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
Windows 10 to get 'holographic' headset (Hololens) and Cortana artificial intelligence.

Baidu image recognition has fewer errors than Google and is claimed to be close to human level
Posted in Software on 18th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
Baidu has a state -of-the-art image recognition system, Deep Image, developed using end-to-end deep learning.

Elon Musk donates $10M to keep AI beneficial
Posted in Software on 17th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
Elon Musk has decided to donate $10M to the Future of Life Institute (FLI) to run a global research program aimed at keeping AI beneficial to humanity.

Google expects public in driverless cars in 2 to 5 years
Posted in Hardware on 17th Jan, 2015
by Alex Muller
Google may face state regulatory hurdles depending on where it chooses to test the cars in public.