Want to be innovative? Learn from machines
Technology still cannot simulate human intelligence to solve complex problems, in a variable environment and with partial information. But it is getting closer. An...
The rise of Soft Robotics
Soft Robotics is the research subfield of robotics that involves construction of robots using soft, elastic and flexible materials somewhat like living organisms. In...
If we’re going to call AI a “extinction risk,” we need to be more...
This week a group of well-known and reputable AI researchers signed a statement consisting of 22 words:
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should...
Artificial Intelligence in Aviation
Artificial Intelligence is a machine's capability to comprehend and adopt actions and activities, machines equipped with AI can imitate cognitive behavior. In the last...
Will artificial intelligence ever rival human creativity?
The European Patent Office recently turned down an application for a patent that described a food container. This was not because the invention was not novel...
AI like HAL 9000 can never exist because real emotions aren’t programmable
HAL 9000 is one of the best-known articifical intelligence characters of modern film. This superior form of sentient computer embarks on a mission to...
Hype and hysteria around AI could set it back by decades
Most discussions about artificial intelligence (AI) are characterised by hyperbole and hysteria. Though some of the world’s most prominent and successful thinkers regularly forecast that AI...
Workplace surveillance is becoming the norm; an expert explains a realistic way of handling...
Workplace surveillance sounds like the stuff of nightmares, but we are having to get used to it. In a sign of the times, the...
Neural networks and deep learning: A primer
Have you ever toyed with the idea of what machine learning actually does? If machine learning is a pack horse for information processing, a...
Microsoft aspires to inject AI in everything
For the past some time Microsoft has made increasing forays into the field of AI and their application in software assisted applications. In the...
