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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.

The World Economic Forum lists its top 10 emerging technologies of 2016

Posted in Hardware on 24th Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller

Criteria used during the deliberations was the likelihood that 2016 represents a tipping point in the deployment of each technology.

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.

OpenAI says it will build a robot that can do housework as well as other intelligent agents

Posted in Hardware on 20th Jun, 2016
by Alex Muller

'Were working to enable a physical robot to perform basic housework'