Artificial Intelligence Around Us
Newsletter
Issue 3
February 26, 2010
Welcome
When cars go to driving school
Drivers go to school to learn to anticipate emerging situations and respond appropriately. Why shouldn't cars do the same? "The idea was that cars should be able to learn from the driver to be capable of driving autonomously," says Wörgötter. Since cars aren't legally allowed to drive themselves, he adds, the system limits itself to providing a warning when the driver isn't responding to an upcoming situation as expected."
This month, composer and software developer David Cope is set to unveil the first musical works composed by his latest creation, dubbed "Emily Howell." Emily is a piece of software that many see as the most advanced artificially intelligent music composer. The program is already stirring fierce debate over its supposed ability to generate creations indistinguishable from those composed by the masters--Mozart, Bach and the gang.
Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award
Institute Professor Barbara Liskov has won the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, one of the highest honors in science and engineering, for her pioneering work in the design of computer programming languages. Liskov's achievements underpin virtually every modern computing-related convenience in people's daily lives.
Reprints Desk Named Among '100 Companies that Matter Most in Knowledge Management'
"In today's knowledge economy, Reprints Desk does more than simply throw sophisticated technology at its customers, it provides real solutions through inspired planning and execution throughout the entire constituency chain," says Hugh McKellar KMWorld editor in chief...
Future Soldiers Will Be Cyborgs
The future, or at least glimpses of it, is here. Well, at least in terms of military technology, which always seems to come first. According to the most recent projects set forth by various companies and research agencies, the combatants of tomorrow will be a totally different breed of fighting machines, endowed with artificial implants and prosthetics, robotic exoskeletons, and digital buddies that will be played by Artificial Intelligence (AI). These are the latest ideas to come out of the US Army's Natick Soldier Research Design and Engineering Center, in Massachusetts, LiveScience reports
Rethinking machine intelligence
IBM has developed a Q&A machine it hopes will be able to compete in the popular US trivia programme, Jeopardy. The BlueGene parallel supercomputer, nicknamed Watson, has to use its huge bank of knowledge to understand the clues given, calculate the relative certainty of the answer being correct, and buzz in, all in three seconds, without being connected to the Internet.
New Book
Artificial Intelligence is already here, according to Artificial Intelligence Around Us (ISBN 978-1-58909-666-4), an intriguing and insightful new book just released by Bookstand Publishing.
"Artificial intelligence is already upon us," says author and researcher Dr. Yuri Iserlis. "It not just something coming in the distant future. Every day, we enjoy the fruits of the work being done in this field, yet we are hardly aware of it. In fact, AI systems are everywhere around us, and many of these we encounter on a routine basis in our daily lives. This book is intended to give the reader a better understanding what is currently going on around us, and why."
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