Artificial Intelligence

We've all got a very sophisticated processing unit – the brain – that can perform some remarkable tasks. Despite their speed and memory capacity, silicon-based computers struggle to emulate it. The branch of computer science called Artificial Intelligence tries to narrow the gap, and one of the basic tools of AI is the neural network. So let's take a look at what the neural network can do. Over the years, Artificial Intelligence has had its...  

MIT has launched a new $5 million, 5-year project to build intelligent machines. To do it, the scientists are revisiting the fifty year history of the Artificial Intelligence field, including the shortfalls that led to the stigmas surrounding it, to find the threads that are still worth exploring. The star-studded roster of researchers includes AI pioneer Marvin Minsky, synthetic neurobiologist Ed Boyden, Neil "Things That Think" Gershenfeld...  

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Ari N. Schulman continues his coverage of the 2009 Singularity Summit: Peter Thiel is a billionaire, known for cofounding PayPal and for his early involvement in Facebook. He also may be the largest benefactor of the Singularity Summit and longevity-related research. His talk today is on “Macroeconomics and Singularity.” (Abstract and bio.) Thiel [...]  

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By the mid-1980s, many scientists both inside and outside of the artificial intelligence community had come to see the effort as a failure.