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Also on IBM’s cat-sized-brain-simulation materials list: 143 terabytes of RAM, miles and miles of cabling, a million watts of electricity, 6675 tons of air conditioning equipment, and an acre of floor space. Cats: they’re kinda dumb. They only seem smarter than dogs because they’re not so friendly, and our society judges kindness harshly. It’s true!…
Kwabena Boahen, a computer scientist at Stanford University, believes that it would require 10 megawatts to power a processor as smart as the human brain. His new “Neurogrid” supercomputer might be able to do it on only 20 watts. To put that in perspective, 10 megawatts is the kind of energy a small hydroelectric plant…
Asimo, still licking its wounds after being outrun by Toyota, fired back earlier this month at Carnegie Mellon, where it learned how to navigate complex, moving obstacle courses. Seriously impressive stuff in this video—just wait until things start spinning! https://gizmodo.com/toyota-humanoid-robot-gives-asimo-a-run-for-its-money-5328227 Officially, this video shows that Carnegie Mellon researchers have given Asimo the ability to detect…
Shown here is Toyota’s running robot. At 7 km/h it’s not going to win any wind sprints in the Olympics, but nevertheless this thing is airborne for 100ms between strides as it skirts across the floor (i.e. genuine running). For comparison’s sake, Honda’s Asimo robot can only manage a meager 6 km/h. We assume Toyota…
Science fiction is great fun, but should we really be quaking in our boots over dangerous A.I. anytime soon? A growing number of scientists say yes, and the results of their February conference at Asilomar are finally being made public. At the conference, the scientists debated research limits on AI, much like their colleagues in…
When I interviewed Wired for War author PW Singer last March, he told me that the preconditions for a successful Terminator-type uprising are not in place. As computer development accelerates, however, those preconditions become way more possible. So, what are the preconditions, according to Singer? 1. The AI or robot has to have some sense…
A robot named Adam is reported to be the first robot ever to independently uncover scientific knowledge. The robot’s AI made a hypothesis about the genomics of a yeast, planned a test for the hypothesis and carried the test out in its lab. The results were replicated by human scientists later, confirming that, no, the…
The collective power of many little robots could do a lot of good for the world. But for now, it just pulls little children across the floor in a freaky way. Still, I find myself transfixed as the robots self-organize, connecting to one another like a giant train to stack their power for a greater…
The Pentagon and the Department of Defense has recently put in a request to contractors for a multi-robot pursuit system to search and track down “non-cooperative humans.” The military is worried that controlling robots will take time away from defense officials so creating a pack-hunting AI that will do it automatically will be useful. Once…
Today, the machines became a little smarter, as a computer named Elbot managed to achieve a 25% success rate when convincing a human being that they were talking to another human. The experiment is called the Turing Test, after mathematician Alan Turing, and Sunday’s saw six Artificial Conversational Entities (ACEs) trying to ace the exam.…
Looks like the day when we all hang out with robots that smoke cigars, throw back drinks and win all our money in poker is edging closer, now that programmers at the University of Alberta have created a Hold ‘Em-playing software that can beat poker professionals. The Polaris software was pitted against Poker pros like…
John Seabrook wrote a recent feature in The New Yorker about interactive-voice-response systems (I.V.R.) commonly used with customer service and tech support telephone hotlines. Seabrook spent time at B.B.N. Technologies watching these systems transcribe callers’ words and analyzing the tone of voice for emotions present. While breaking down the history of automated telephone services and…
Using his self-designed AI program, Philip M. Parker has “authored” 200,000 books without ever lifting his pen. While his work features some self-explanatory medical texts like The Official Patient’s Sourcebook on Acne Rosacea, most of Parker’s publications are 100-300 page industry analysis pieces like DAGENHAM MOTORS GROUP PLC: Labor Productivity Benchmarks and International Gap Analysis.…
Those spiffing fellows at the University of Plymouth, UK are undertaking a research project involving a baby-bot named iCub, which will see the robot actually learn how to speak. The three-foot high robot will help researchers deduce how language is taught, but the further reaching impact of the study include the prospect of developing humanoid…
If news of the Israeli military developing a robotic defense system that’s completely AI and human-independent doesn’t scare you, you haven’t watched as many Terminator movies as we have. Their system, which defends against attacks that would “exceed physiological limits of human command,” is described thusly. …supremely oriented, highly intuitive virtual coach-cum-battle manager whose primary…
Its about time someone started applying machine intelligence to good things rather than the seemingly evil: the new JeJoue SaSi “personal massager” comes with built-in motion playlists and also actually learns what its lady likes in the way of sub-knicker action. And occasionally, just for kicks, it rocks a bit of freestylin’ to give you…
Holy crap! The Age of The Machines is nigh: a bunch of scientists in Switzerland have created learning robots that can lie to each other. Okay, so they don’t swill beer or put bends in girders—they just communicate to each other with benign flashing lights, thank goodness, instead of using lasers to destroy humans: The…
Nokia has used its The Way We Live Next show in Finland to reveal the company’s Point&Find system. In a nutshell, the cellphone company is developing the technology to allow you to point your Nokia cell at any object — restaurants, cinemas, even that cute girl you see on the bus to work each morning…
At this year’s LA auto show, Honda pulled out all the stops in the design category with their One to the Power of Four solar hybrid. The challenge was to design a vehicle that will be on the streets a half century from now, and Honda decided to devote their energy to solving the carpooling…
By analyzing all 5×10^20 (500 billion billion) possible checkers moves, computers can now beat or tie a human at checkers every single game. How’d they analyze so much data? By starting in 1989 and going until they were done. Let’s see them do this with Go. [Machinist]
