http://ai-depot.com/news News and discussion for the artificial intelligence enthusiast. Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:58:58 EDT en AiNewshttp://feedburner.google.com http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Software-Finds-Learning-Language-Childs-Play/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Software-Finds-Learning-Language-Childs-Play/ Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:58:58 EDT alexjc news article http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Software-Finds-Learning-Language-Childs-Play/
The debate in language acquisition is around how much specific information about language is hard-wired into the brain of the infant, and how much is something that can be explained by relatively general purpose learning systems. ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/What-Would-You-do-With-80-Cores/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/What-Would-You-do-With-80-Cores/ Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:39:37 EDT alexjc blog post http://ai-depot.com/news/story/What-Would-You-do-With-80-Cores/
"Like the human brain itself, these intelligent applications lend themselves to parallel processing. 80-cores would change the game in a broader sense than just hardware - it will enable new application possibilities." ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Apply-AI-2007-Roundtable-Report/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Apply-AI-2007-Roundtable-Report/ Mon, 09 Jul 2007 09:12:52 EDT alexjc blog post http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Apply-AI-2007-Roundtable-Report/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Artificial-General-Intelligence-Now-Is-Time-1/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Artificial-General-Intelligence-Now-Is-Time-1/ Sun, 08 Jul 2007 15:46:45 EDT Gabriel interview http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Artificial-General-Intelligence-Now-Is-Time-1/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/jKilavuz--guide-in-polygon-soup-1/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/jKilavuz--guide-in-polygon-soup-1/ Mon, 25 Jun 2007 08:38:14 EDT raft library http://ai-depot.com/news/story/jKilavuz--guide-in-polygon-soup-1/
jKilavuz is a path engine for Java. It consists of an extensible set of tools for collecting pathfind data and finding and executing paths. Despite the complexness of subject it is designed for ease of use. ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Neural-Network-Creates-Music-CD/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Neural-Network-Creates-Music-CD/ Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:31:07 EDT alexjc news article http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Neural-Network-Creates-Music-CD/
Instead, these Creativity Machine are untrained artificial intelligence computer known as a neural network. The neurons in the computer brain are mathematical entities instead of brain cells. The creative process starts by tweaking the mathematical connections between the neurons. That set off a cascade of calculations that were translated as sounds. ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Decision-Making-Medical-Support/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Decision-Making-Medical-Support/ Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:04:25 EDT alexjc news article http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Decision-Making-Medical-Support/
For example, CareEngine can alert physicians to potential adverse drug interactions, overlooked lab tests or the availability of beneficial drugs, according to ActiveHealth. ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Interview-with-Peter-Denning-on-Principles-Computing/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Interview-with-Peter-Denning-on-Principles-Computing/ Thu, 07 Jun 2007 11:00:18 EDT alexjc interview http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Interview-with-Peter-Denning-on-Principles-Computing/
""Artificial intelligence (AI) researchers claimed that the mind is a computational process. When they discovered the rules of the process, a computer that followed the same rules would be conscious and intelligent. This claim, often called "strong AI", is not falsifiable. In the past two decades, mainstream AI has focused on falsifiable claims, such as "a neural net can be trained to read handwritten addresses from postal envelopes." In the older terminology, this was called 'weak AI', but it has transformed AI into a strong scientific enterprise."" ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Mining-Data--Netflix-Prize/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Mining-Data--Netflix-Prize/ Wed, 06 Jun 2007 18:18:08 EDT alexjc news article http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Mining-Data--Netflix-Prize/
The contest has also generated several academic papers, Mr. Bennett said. It has turned out to be more exciting than officials expected. ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Pushing-Limits-Game-AI-Technology/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Pushing-Limits-Game-AI-Technology/ Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:27:44 EDT alexjc blog post http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Pushing-Limits-Game-AI-Technology/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Neural-Network-Learns-to-Bluff-at-Poker/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Neural-Network-Learns-to-Bluff-at-Poker/ Mon, 04 Jun 2007 09:37:07 EDT alexjc news article http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Neural-Network-Learns-to-Bluff-at-Poker/
Now Hurwitz and Tshilidzi Marwala, also at Witwatersrand, have developed a virtual player that has taught itself to bluff at a card game called lerpa. Their artificial intelligence bot, named Aiden, is based on a neural network algorithm that usually forecasts stock market fluctuations.

Then the researchers decided to play Aiden against three other similarly trained bots to see what would happen. "They began to develop their own personalities - either aggressive or conservative - depending on their past successes," ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/New-Planners-Solve-Rescue-Missions/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/New-Planners-Solve-Rescue-Missions/ Sat, 02 Jun 2007 11:41:46 EDT alexjc news article http://ai-depot.com/news/story/New-Planners-Solve-Rescue-Missions/
Several research groups have tried to combine the two principles. However, this has been shown to be difficult. Rune Moeller Jensen has, in co-operation with American colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University, developed a method called state-set-branching, in which the two principles can be combined. "We could show that these search algorithms were more efficient than previous algorithms", he says. ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Race-to-Machine-Translation-Web-Search/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Race-to-Machine-Translation-Web-Search/ Thu, 31 May 2007 10:54:49 EDT donkey news article http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Race-to-Machine-Translation-Web-Search/
Meanwhile, Microsoft Corp. is working on improving its natural-language processing software that translates documents by extracting implied meanings behind a string of phrases or words as opposed to translating each word literally. The company says it is considering ways to implement technology into its Live search service, which it currently offers in 46 markets from Germany to Hong Kong. ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Face-Recognition-Software-Outperforms-Humans/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Face-Recognition-Software-Outperforms-Humans/ Wed, 30 May 2007 14:14:52 EDT alexjc news article http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Face-Recognition-Software-Outperforms-Humans/
Among other advantages, 3-D facial recognition identifies individuals by exploiting distinctive features of a human face's surface--for instance, the curves of the ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Compound-Eye-Camera-Analyzes-Scenes/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Compound-Eye-Camera-Analyzes-Scenes/ Sun, 27 May 2007 16:56:05 EDT alexjc news article http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Compound-Eye-Camera-Analyzes-Scenes/
Tanida says that he looked at biological imaging systems--in particular, the compound eyes of insects--for the design blueprint. The technology, called TOMBO (Thin Observation Module by Bound Optics), is actually a collection of nine small lenses and software that analyzes the scene by mimicking the process that insects use to recognize the position, shape, and color of objects, Tanida says. The researchers have crammed TOMBO's hardware into a tiny box the size of a shirt button. And in the age of increasingly smaller and thinner mobile gadgets, such a compound-eye cam ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Categorizing-Citizen-Comments-with-Natural-Language-Processing/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Categorizing-Citizen-Comments-with-Natural-Language-Processing/ Sun, 27 May 2007 16:55:48 EDT alexjc news article http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Categorizing-Citizen-Comments-with-Natural-Language-Processing/
But an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of computer analysis, so Farina, with the help from Geri Gay , professor of communication, is developing a Web interface to help users write more useful comments. "One way to make the job easier for the agencies is to make the comments better," Farina explains. "People don't understand that they're not writing to their legislators." Working with Gay and Hronn Brynjarsdottir, a research associate in Gay's Human Computer Interaction Laboratory, Farina is developing 20 to 30 Web pages of introductory information about the rule-making process and h ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Data-Mining-Is-Going-Mainstream/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Data-Mining-Is-Going-Mainstream/ Fri, 25 May 2007 12:27:04 EDT alexjc news article http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Data-Mining-Is-Going-Mainstream/
The results, says Jon M. Kleinberg, a computer scientist at Cornell University, are a "revolution in measurement" and the "introduction of computing and algorithmic processes into the social sciences in a big way." The phenomenon is strikingly evident in economics, business and crime prevention. ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/What-is-Self-Learning-Software/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/What-is-Self-Learning-Software/ Thu, 24 May 2007 15:49:34 EDT alexjc blog post http://ai-depot.com/news/story/What-is-Self-Learning-Software/
The content classification software automatically learns and interprets the meaning of unstructured text such as in documents, e-mails, and customer interactions -- in real-time, making content classification more precise. The software understands words, linguistics, semantics, and context of the language as well as associated metadata. The self-learning classification software becomes more accurate over time without requiring human adjustment. ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Machine-Learning-Helps-Control-Cyber-Moths/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Machine-Learning-Helps-Control-Cyber-Moths/ Thu, 24 May 2007 15:22:32 EDT alexjc news article http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Machine-Learning-Helps-Control-Cyber-Moths/
This time, however, machine learning is applied to figure out how to control the moths, using a direct neural connection. ]]> http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Pattern-Recognition-in-Unshredder/ http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Pattern-Recognition-in-Unshredder/ Mon, 21 May 2007 17:49:25 EDT alexjc news article http://ai-depot.com/news/story/Pattern-Recognition-in-Unshredder/
But even if the government had stalled the project, the commercial potential of the machine would have seen it win through. The Fraunhofer scientists have already received requests to buy the so-called E-Puzzler from authorities in other former communist countries of eastern Europe, such as Latvia and Poland, as well as from Argentina and Chi ]]>