Intelligence

Autonomous Weapons: Leading AI & Robotics Researchers signed an Open Letter to Ban it

Autonomous Weapons: Leading AI & Robotics Researchers signed an Open Letter to Ban it

The key question for humanity today is whether to start a global AI arms race or to prevent it from starting? More than 1,500 leading Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Robotics researchers signed an open letter, published Monday, at the opening of the IJCAI 2015 conference from the Future of Life Institute. The letter calls for […]

Introducing iCub: Open Source Humanoid Robotic Platform

Introducing iCub: Open Source Humanoid Robotic Platform

iCub Robot’s software and hardware both are open source to encourage development of various algorithms on the top of the platform. The project iCub which aims to build an open source humanoid robotic platform was started in 2004 at Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).This project has involvement of twenty laboratories worldwide. The goal of the project […]

Deep Learning Machine Beats Humans in IQ Test

Deep Learning Machine Beats Humans in IQ Test

Researchers at the University of Science and Technology of China and Bin Gao and buddies at Microsoft Research in Beijing unveiled a deep learning machine that can beat Humans in IQ test. Just over 100 years ago, the German psychologist William Stern introduced the intelligence quotient test as a way of evaluating human intelligence. Since […]

Pepper : The World’s First Personal Robot That Reads Emotions – Ready for Sale

Pepper : The World’s First Personal Robot That Reads Emotions – Ready for Sale

June 18, 2015 – SoftBank Robotics Corp. and SoftBank Mobile Corp. (“SoftBank”) today announced that ‘Pepper’, the world’s first personal robot that can read emotions, will go on sale in Japan starting June 20, 2015. With 1,000 units available for purchase in the month of June, customers will be able to place orders for Pepper […]

Can Artificial Intelligence Create Art?

Can Artificial Intelligence Create Art?

Computers are getting better at emulating human thought. Could they ever replicate our creativity? It is widely believed that ongoing advances in artificial intelligence (AI) mean that a number of jobs now performed by human beings will soon be computerized. Many experts believe, however, that creativity and the arts are areas that AI may never penetrate. A […]

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