AI
IBM and Xprize open $5M A.I. competition to tackle humanitys greatest challenges
Posted in Hardware on 24th Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller
Can AI be harnessed to solve some of the worlds greatest challenges? IBM and Xprize want to find out.
Teaching Computers To Reason and Learn by Analogy
Posted in Science on 23rd Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller
Using a structure mapping system based on analogy, researchers have created a system that allows machines to reason more like humans do.
Stanford AI achieves 72-75.8% accuracy in understanding news articles
Posted in Software on 22nd Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller
Enabling a computer to understand a document so that it can answer comprehension questions is a central goal of language processing.
Toyota will spend a billion dollars on a 5 year project to make affordable helper robots
Posted in Hardware on 22nd Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller
'My thought is, if the Toyota production system can be applied to cars, maybe it can also be applied to robots, because theyre quite similar'.
Japan wants to take autonomous construction extraterrestrial
Posted in Science on 21st Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller
JAXA is looking to take autonomous construction technology to the undeveloped plains of the Moon and Mars.