Most Watched YouTube Videos Of All Time (Non-Music Video Edition The Personality Forge AI - Artificial Intelligence Chat Bots IBM Supercomputer to Compete on Jeopardy CIO CIO — IBM today announced that it aims to take artificial intelligence to a new level with its supercomputer, codenamed "Watson," sending the technology to compete in the world of game shows. The computer has the ability to analyze complex questions and form answers so well that it can compete with humans on the game show Jeopardy, IBM says, and a machine vs. human competition on the show is in the works. Watson, in its final stages of development, is a question answering system that has been in development for nearly two years. Jeopardy is the perfect forum in which to display Watson's advances in artificial intelligence, according to IBM. IBM says Watson can do the same--in other words, do complex human-like thinking that computers have not traditionally done well--with precision and speed. Details are still forthcoming regarding exact timing for Watson's debut on Jeopardy.
Alicebot 'Autonomous' helicopters teach themselves to fly (9/1/2008) Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching other helicopters perform the same maneuvers. The result is an autonomous helicopter than can perform a complete airshow of complex tricks on its own. The stunts are "by far the most difficult aerobatic maneuvers flown by any computer controlled helicopter," said Andrew Ng, the professor directing the research of graduate students Pieter Abbeel, Adam Coates, Timothy Hunter and Morgan Quigley. The dazzling airshow is an important demonstration of "apprenticeship learning," in which robots learn by observing an expert, rather than by having software engineers peck away at their keyboards in an attempt to write instructions from scratch. Stanford's artificial intelligence system learned how to fly by "watching" the four-foot-long helicopters flown by expert radio control pilot Garett Oku. Computers can, it turns out.
Has Emily Howell Passed the Musical Turing Test? | h+ Magazine Surfdaddy Orca March 22, 2010 “Why not develop music in ways unknown? This only makes sense. I cannot understand the difference between my notes on paper and other notes on paper. If beauty is present, it is present. Emily Howell’s philosophic musings and short Haiku-like sentences are the giveaway. Cope is also Honorary Professor of Computer Science (CS) at Xiamen University in China. The classical music aficionado is often caricatured as a highbrow nose-in-the-air, well… snob. Cope faced similar prejudices with his AI composer, Emmy, and was unable to find any big-name classical musicians who would even touch her work. With Emily Howell, however, he has gone a step further than he did with Emmy. Adaptability and self-modification are two attributes of intelligence. Emily Howell is adaptable and egolessly self-modifying in her ability to respond to audience criticism. As Turing originally envisioned it, the computer tries to act like a human during the interview.