When you first stare down that tough opponent in a videogame (think Big Daddies in Bioshock or Striders in Half-Life 2), it can seem impossible to beat the computer-controlled character you’re facing…
The DARwIn-OP humanoid soccer-playing robot may look like a toy, but is a platform for groundbreaking artificial intelligence research.
David Budden
We already know robots manufacture cars, work in factories, even vacuum our homes – but could they form a world-beating soccer team?
The question seems like ripe pickings for a movie mogul, given Hollywood…
The idea of a machine being creative goes back to the earliest days of computing.
Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
For much of his adult life, painter and scholar Harold Cohen has been working in collaboration with a computer to make visual art.
Cohen has worked almost continuously on this creative artificial intelligence…
“We should stop treating intelligent machines as the stuff of science fiction.”
Cea.
We know how to deal with suspicious packages – as carefully as possible! These days, we let robots take the risk. But what if the robots are the risk? Some commentators argue we should be treating AI…
Augmentation technologies will challenge what it means to be human.
WebWizard
“And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” William Gibson, Count…
There’s a big difference between creating a thinking machine and modelling one.
Saad Faruque
In the late 1700s, French scientist Antoine Lavoisier proved that the mechanism behind burning is oxidation. Lavoisier’s discovery killed off an eternity of dogma involving a non-existent substance called…
According to some, computer intelligence is on course to match human intelligence by 2045.
Sybren A. Stüvel
As mentioned already on this site and others, this year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of famed British mathematician Alan Turing.
The outline of his remarkable life and sad ending has by now…
Anything could happen if we don’t teach machines to be “good”.
KennethMoyle
Predicting the future is a risky business. If it wasn’t, we’d all be very wealthy by now. The Danish physicist Neils Bohr famously opined: “Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future…
Momentum is gathering behind calls to pardon the father of computer science.
BinaryApe
You may have read the British Government is being petitioned to grant a posthumous pardon to one of the world’s greatest mathematicians and most successful codebreakers, Alan Turing. You may also have…
Money should be no object when it comes to the numbers game.
krissyho
Welcome to the second instalment of If I had a blank cheque … a series in which leading researchers reveal what they could (and would) do in their discipline if money were no object.
Today we hear from…
Can an ant’s strategy for moving around be useful for building robots with autonomous navigation?
Working with experts in the field of artificial intelligence, we have just begun to explore this possibility…
Could our days at the top of the brain chain be numbered?
AAP
In February this year, game shows got that little bit harder. And at the same time, artificial intelligence took another step towards the ultimate goal of creating and perhaps exceeding human-level intelligence…
