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Jul 13, 2015
Google and NASA’s Quantum Artificial Intelligence Lab
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, quantum physics, robotics/AI
A peek at the early days of the Quantum AI Lab: a partnership between NASA, Google, USRA, and a 512-qubit D-Wave Two quantum computer. Learn more at http://google.com/+QuantumAILab.
Jul 13, 2015
You’re Using Neural Networks Every Day Online — Here’s How They Work
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: robotics/AI
If you use Google’s new Photos app, Microsoft’s Cortana, or Skype’s new translation function, you’re using a form of AI on a daily basis. AI was first dreamed up in the 1950s, but has only recently become a practical reality — all thanks to software systems called neural networks. This is how they work.
Jul 11, 2015
IBM Watson CTO: Quantum computing could advance artificial intelligence
Posted by Simon Waslander in categories: computing, engineering, futurism, quantum physics, robotics/AI
IBM Watson CTO: Quantum computing could advance artificial intelligence by orders of magnitude.
Quantum computers have already been used to test artificial intelligence by researchers in China, albeit in a very limited capacity. Earlier in 2015, a team from the country’s University of Science and Technology developed a quantum system capable of recognising handwritten characters in a demonstration they dubbed quantum artificial intelligence.
This demonstration was on a quantum computer using only four qubits, leading to speculation of what a system using hundreds – or even thousands – of qubits would be capable of. Such machines do not yet exist, at least not commercially, but Canada-based quantum computing firm D-Wave systems recently claimed it has built a 1,000 qubit quantum computer.
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Jul 11, 2015
Is consciousness an engineering problem? – Michael Graziano – Aeon
Posted by Sean Cusack in categories: engineering, robotics/AI
We could build an artificial brain that believes itself to be conscious. Does that mean we have solved the hard problem?
Jul 10, 2015
3-D-printed robot is hard inside, soft outside, and capable of jumping without hurting itself
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: 3D printing, futurism, robotics/AI
Left: the rigid top fractures on landing, while the top made of nine layers going from rigid to flexible remains intact (credit: Jacobs School of Engineering/UC San Diego, Harvard University)
Jul 10, 2015
EVA Movie Trailer (Science Fiction — 2015)
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: robotics/AI
A cybernetic engineer creates a very special child robot ★Join us on Facebook ► http://facebook.com/HorrorScifiMovies ★ Sci-Fi Fan? Don’t miss THIS ➨ http:/…
Jul 9, 2015
A Celebration of Risk (a.k.a., Robots Take a Spill)
Posted by Dan Kummer in category: robotics/AI
DARPA is an agency that takes high risks in pursuit of great rewards. This video is a celebration of risk. Thank you to all of the teams that participated in…
Jul 9, 2015
Machine ethics: The robot’s dilemma — Boer Deng | Nature
Posted by Seb in categories: ethics, robotics/AI
“Advocates argue that the rule-based approach has one major virtue: it is always clear why the machine makes the choice that it does, because its designers set the rules. That is a crucial concern for the US military, for which autonomous systems are a key strategic goal. Whether machines assist soldiers or carry out potentially lethal missions, ‘the last thing you want is to send an autonomous robot on a military mission and have it work out what ethical rules it should follow in the middle of things’.”
Jul 9, 2015
Biggest Neural Network Ever Pushes AI Deep Learning
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, robotics/AI
Digital Reasoning has trained a record-breaking artificial intelligence neural network that is 14 times larger than Google’s previous record.
