Tag: AI
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Stupid computers... Never understanding "why"...
Efforts to create an IQ-test for AI systems have been going on for many years. (1) Now artificial and natural knowledge researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have IQ-tested one of the best available artificial intelligence systems to see how intelligent it really is. Turns out it's about as smart as the average…
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Computer lawyers and judges. Possible?
Computer programs could soon start making legal decisions, and they might do a better job than humans. [1] But they forget that Law is not just "A + B = C". Law is about ethics. Law is about human behaviour. Law is about us. And we are NOT computers! How can we let them judge…
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Swarm robots: AI final frontier! (literally)
Researchers in the Sheffield Centre for Robotics, jointly established by the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University, have been working to program a group of 40 robots, and say the ability to control robot swarms could prove hugely beneficial in a range of contexts, from military to medical. [1] The researchers have demonstrated that the swarm can…
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God is dead, Philosophy is dead, Thought is dead...
Microsoft is working on an interactive whiteboard that aims to interpret users' sketches to complete the diagrams they were drawing. [1] It was about time! We have been thinking too much. Now that God is proclaimed dead, now that Philosophy is proclaimed dead as well, it was obvious what was next in line: Thought is…
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How to Develop a Chess Program for Beginners
This series of tutorials for dummies will show how one can develop a chess playing program in C# from scratch with no prior knowledge of programming. It will guide the reader step-by-step until the final building of a fully-features chess application in Microsoft Visual Studio. The tutorial is based on the open source Huo Chess…
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