Imagine that everything in your mind had been erased, and you had to learn everything all over again. What would that process be like? Two researchers at NTNU have made a robot that learns l... Read more
IN THE end, the robots won. On December 3rd, Google announced that it was radically changing its ReCAPTCHA system, the sort of prove-you’re-a-human-and-not-automated-software test that... Read more
Researcher develops test to assess a computer’s capacity for human-level intelligence through its ability to create rather than to converse or deceive A Georgia Tech professor recently offer... Read more
From performing surgery and flying planes to babysitting kids and driving cars, today’s robots can do it all. With chatbots such as Eugene Goostman recently being hailed as “passing” the Tur... Read more
An historic milestone in artificial intelligence set by Alan Turing – the father of modern computer science – has been achieved at an event organised by the University of Reading... Read more
But I wondered, what if there could be no boundary at all? Throughout the history of computers we’ve been striving to shorten the gap between us and digital information, the gap betwee... Read more
BotPrize winners score as more human than half their human competitors An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won t... Read more
Crowdsourcing can create an artificial chat partner that’s smarter than Siri-style personal assistants. Personal assistants such as Apple’s Siri may be useful, but they are still... Read more
The Loebner prize rewards the machine that best imitates a human – it provides a great sanity check for wilder AI claims When you chat to your mates online, are you sure they are not machine... Read more