For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution — “natural language,” as computer scientists call it — and respond with a precise, factual answer.
intrinsi on June 19th 2010 in Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
A Grand Unified Theory of Artificial Intelligence
In the 1950s and ’60s, artificial-intelligence researchers saw themselves as trying to uncover the rules of thought. But those rules turned out to be way more complicated than anyone had imagined. Since then, artificial-intelligence (AI) research has come to rely, instead, on probabilities — statistical patterns that computers can learn from large sets of training data.
intrinsi on March 31st 2010 in Artificial Intelligence
Brain-Like Computer Closer to Realization
Now a group at the University of Michigan, led by Wei Lu, has demonstrated that the memristor can actually be used in computing.
intrinsi on March 17th 2010 in Artificial Intelligence, Hardware
