Posted February 28, 2013, 5:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, The Web
Watson, the data-crunching super computer from IBM, may be leaving its part-time occupation as the world's most feared Jeopardy contestant in favor of more rewarding opportunities -- namely those in medical science, consulting and even baking. "That’s not something we thought…
Posted February 13, 2013, 1:00 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
By making computers "think like a doctor", researchers at Indiana University claim their contextual "artificial intelligence" framework can one-up living medical professionals in terms of both cost and accuracy. Researchers indicate their approach could cut costs by more than half…
Posted October 1, 2012, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Gaming, The Web
Programmers were tasked with the challenge of creating the most human-like UT2004 bots -- and it appears they delivered. In the competition sponsored by 2K games, the top two UT2004 bots tricked 52 percent of the judges into thinking they…
Posted June 27, 2012, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in The Web
Google engineers claim they've designed a computer network capable of analyzing, categorizing and ultimately teaching itself to recognize the content of images. The "neural network" was fed 10 million images from YouTube video thumbnails and -- without being told how…
Posted November 15, 2011, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Hardware, Industry News
Plasticity. That is the term used to describe a key element deemed responsible for allowing our brains to learn, change and adapt. Researchers at MIT believe they have taken a major step toward replicating this important behavior in the silicon…
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