Sep 25, 2015
AI Helps Humans Best When Humans Help the AI
Posted by Albert Sanchez in category: robotics/AI
Artificial intelligence has come a long way. But as virtual digital assistants proliferate, they often need a non-digital assist.
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Sep 24, 2015
Don’t Worry, Artificial Intelligence Has A Long Way To Go: Baidu Scientist
Posted by Sean Cusack in categories: computing, employment, robotics/AI
Don’t get overly excited about computers and artificial intelligence replacing humans , at least not yet says Andrew Ng, chief scientist at the Chinese search giant Biadu. Computers are still in the “supervised learning” stage where human input is required to connect dots.
Sep 24, 2015
Brain-computer link enables paralyzed California man to walk
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, computing, engineering, information science, neuroscience, robotics/AI
By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) — A brain-to-computer technology that can translate thoughts into leg movements has enabled a man paralyzed from the waist down by a spinal cord injury to become the first such patient to walk without the use of robotics, doctors in Southern California reported on Wednesday. The slow, halting first steps of the 28-year-old paraplegic were documented in a preliminary study published in the British-based Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, along with a YouTube video. The feat was accomplished using a system allowing the brain to bypass the injured spinal cord and instead send messages through a computer algorithm to electrodes placed around the patient’s knees to trigger controlled leg muscle movements.
Sep 23, 2015
AI system solves SAT geometry questions as well as average American 11th-grade student
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: robotics/AI
Examples of questions (left column) and interpretations (right column) derived by GEOS (credit: Minjoon Seo et al./Proceedings of EMNLP)
An AI system that can solve SAT geometry questions as well as the average American 11th-grade student has been developed by researchers at the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) and University of Washington.
Sep 23, 2015
Even computer programmers could be put out of a job by robots
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, robotics/AI
Sep 23, 2015
The Emotional Era of Artificial Intelligence
Posted by Dan Faggella in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
Have you hugged or told someone that you love them today? Maybe it wasn’t someone — maybe it was your smartphone that you gave an extra squeeze or gave an extra pat as you slipped it into your pocket. Humans have become increasingly invested in their devices, and a new era of emotional attachment to our devices and other AI seems to be upon us. But how does this work itself out on the other end — will or could AI ever respond to humans in an emotional fashion?
Communication Sparks Emotional Response
AI is broad, and clearly not all AI are meant to give and receive in an emotional capacity. Humans seem prone to respond to features that are similar to its own species, or to those to which it can relate to in some sort of communicative way. Most “emotional” or responsive algorithm-based capabilities have been programmed into robots that are in a humanoid – or at least a mammal-like – form.
Think androids in customer-service, entertainment, or companion-type roles. There are also robots like PARO, the baby harbor seal used for therapeutic interaction with those in assisted living and hospital environments.
In a 2003 paper published through the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Cynthia Breazeal quotes a study by Reeves and Nass (1996), whose research shows humans (whether computer experts, lay people, or computer critics) generally treat computers as they might treat other people.
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Sep 23, 2015
Marines test Google’s latest military robot
Posted by Aleksandar Vukovic in categories: military, robotics/AI
The latest version of a walking, quadruped battlefield robot from Boston Dynamics, the military robotics maker owned by Google X, was tested by U.S. Marines last week.
Spot weighs about 70kgs, is electrically operated and walks on four hydraulically-actuated legs. It’s controlled via wireless by an operator who can be up to 500 meters away.
It underwent trials and testing at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia as part of evaluations by the Marines on future military uses of robotic technology. In a series of missions, it was evaluated in different terrains including hills, woodlands and urban areas.
Sep 22, 2015
First driverless pods to travel public roads arrive in the Netherlands
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
The WEpod will be the first self-driving electric shuttle to run in regular traffic, and take bookings via a dedicated app.
