Humans No Match for Go Bot Overlords
For the last two decades, human cognitive superiority had a distinctive sound: the soft click of stones placed on a wooden Go board. But once again, artificial intelligence is asserting its domination...
View ArticleRobot Makes Scientific Discovery All by Itself
For the first time, a robotic system has made a novel scientific discovery with virtually no human intellectual input. Scientists designed “Adam” to carry out the entire scientific process on its own:...
View ArticleComputer Program Self-Discovers Laws of Physics
In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum’s swings. Developed by Cornell...
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The Future of Robot Scientists
Future science historians will mark the beginning of the 21st century as a time when robots took their place beside human scientists. Programmers have turned computers from extraordinarily powerful but...
View ArticleDigital Creatures Evolve Firefly Flashing
One hundred and fifty-one years after the publication of On the Origin of Species, digital creatures have evolved to communicate like fireflies in a computer program that blurs the boundaries of life....
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Developer of Robot Scientist Wants to Standardize Science
After an update to its software, a robot scientist has recycled its previous research to make a new biological discovery. Named Adam, the van-sized robot came to scientific fame after autonomously...
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Why Brains Get Creeped Out by Androids
By Mark Brown, Wired UK We’ve all found ourselves in the uncanny valley before. It’s that uneasy feeling you get when viewing a realistic humanoid or CGI person that’s so close to looking human that it...
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Computer Beats PC Game After Reading Manual
By John Timmer, Ars Technica Normally, covering computer science articles are a bit of a strain, but two things about a recent one had a strong personal appeal: I’m addicted to the Civilization series...
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Robotic Aircraft Controlled by Human Hand Gestures
Aircraft carrier crews already use a set of hand gestures and body positions to guide pilots around the deck. With an increase in unmanned planes, MIT researchers are setting out to do the same with...
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Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test
One hundred years after Alan Turing was born, his eponymous test remains an elusive benchmark for artificial intelligence. Now, for the first time in decades, it's possible to imagine a machine making...
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DarwinTunes ‘Evolves’ Music From Noise
A new computer program called DarwinTunes is showing how music listeners drive music to evolve in a certain way out of noise.
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How to Pass the Turing Artificial Intelligence Test
Are you human or a machine? Prove it, by passing the Turing Test -- a test of the ability of a machine to exhibit intelligent behavior.
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Why the Turing Test Is a Flawed Benchmark
Some of today's computer systems are displaying intelligence far beyond the capability of a human, so it's time to ask: Should a machine demonstrate intelligence by emulating a human?
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Google’s Artificial Brain Learns to Find Cat Videos
When computer scientists at Google's mysterious X lab built a neural network of 16,000 computer processors with one billion connections and let it browse YouTube, it did what many web users might do --...
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Robots Compete for Soccer World Domination
It's a practical embodiment of profound challenges in artificial intelligence and robotic engineering. It's also robots playing soccer.
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Computer Watches Humans Play Connect Four, Then Beats Them
A computer scientist has detailed how artificial intelligence systems can successfully win at boardgames after watching two minute-long videos of humans playing.
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Scanning Your Home With Kinect Could Improve 3-D Robot Vision
Seeking a way to crowdsource better computer vision, roboticists have launched Kinect@Home, a website that allows users to record pieces of their environments in 3-D with a Kinect camera. Should the...
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Paging Dr. Watson: Artificial Intelligence As a Prescription for Health Care
Health care in the United States certainly needs an overhaul. The question is whether that overhaul will come from artificially intelligent doctors. Such is the promise of Watson, the...
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CAPTCHA Busted? AI Company Claims Break of Internet’s Favorite Protection System
A software company called Vicarious claims to have created a computer algorithm that can solve CAPTCHA with greater than 90% accuracy. If it's been broken, the entire Internet should probably start...
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