Elon Musk has been described as the real-life inspiration behind the superhero character of Tony Stark from the Ironman movie franchise. He is the CEO and founder of SpaceX, and co-founder of Tesla Motors and PayPal, among other things. He has been an outspoken critic of the potential dangers of Artificial Intelligence, describing it as […]
The Robo Brain Project
The Robo Brain Project is a multi-university, open-source project to create a massive online knowledge-base which robots around the world can connect to in order to share what they have learned with each other — a kind of Wikipedia for robots. Ashutosh Saxena of Cornell University is the project lead. In this video he explains the […]
AAAI’s Twenty-Ninth Conference on Artificial Intelligence
The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence held its twenty-ninth conference in January 2015 in Austin, Texas. Sponsors of this event included Microsoft, Google, IBM, Yahoo, Baidu, and Infosys, among others. The purpose of the conference was to “promote research in artificial intelligence and scientific exchange among AI researchers, practitioners, scientists, and engineers […]
IBM’s Watson
IBM’s term for Watson is Cognitive Technology — think of what that terminology implies. Cognition refers to the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning. Perception, learning, reasoning, this is a really big deal if we are talking about machines actually doing this. This is a game changer. Speaking of changing the game, check out […]