A robot developed by the National Institute of Informatics is now smart enough to be accepted into most Japanese universities - but not the notoriously selective University of Tokyo. This artificial intelligence is called the Todai Robot Project, and aims to pass the entrance exam for the University of Tokyo in 2021. For the first time in its development, the AI program achieved an above-average score on a college entrance exam, which covered maths, physics, and english among other subjects. University of Tokyo, also called'Todai,' requires prospective students to take the general admissions test, the National Center Test for University Admissions, along with its own infamously difficult test The University of Tokyo, also referred to as'Todai,' is notorious for its extremely difficult entrance exam. Prospective students must take a general college entrance exam, the National Center Test for Admissions, along with the Todai test.

At a time when there is high pressure and scrutiny around security, innovative new technologies are helping to track and predict crime. Artificial intelligence (AI) is key in this new way of fighting crime, providing analysis that can give real support to law enforcement services as they make difficult decisions about how best to use their resources. CCTV cameras have been in use in Europe since the Second World War. However, they have sometimes come under scrutiny about their effectiveness when it comes to tackling crime, as they tend to only provide retrospective support for law enforcement (such as placing a suspect at the scene of the crime in their trial). With new cameras able to send and receive data via a computer network and the Internet (IPTV), as well as the huge amount of data collected every second using traditional CCTV, AI can collate this data extremely quickly ready for analysis.

Nasa has announced that it has found evidence of flowing water on Mars. Scientists have long speculated that Recurring Slope Lineae -- or dark patches -- on Mars were made up of briny water but the new findings prove that those patches are caused by liquid water, which it has established by finding hydrated salts. Several hundred camped outside the London store in Covent Garden. The 6s will have new features like a vastly improved camera and a pressure-sensitive "3D Touch" display

Madeline MacDonald says she was an 18-year-old freshman at Brigham Young University when she was sexually assaulted by a man she met on an online dating site. She reported the crime to the school's Title IX office. That same day, she says, BYU's honor code office received a copy of the report, triggering an investigation into whether MacDonald had violated the Mormon school's strict code of behavior, which bans premarital sex and drinking, among other things. Now MacDonald is among many students and others, including a Utah prosecutor, who are questioning BYU's practice of investigating accusers, saying it could discourage women from reporting sexual violence and hinder criminal cases. Tens of thousands have signed an online petition calling on the university to give victims immunity from honor code violations committed in the lead-up to a sexual assault.

Norwegian authorities have violated mass killer Anders Behring Breivik's human rights by holding him in solitary confinement in a three-cell complex where he can play video games, watch TV and exercise, a court in Oslo ruled Wednesday. In a written decision, the Oslo district court said Breivik's solitary confinement for killing 77 people in 2011 bomb-and-gun massacres breached the European Convention on Human Rights' ban on inhuman treatment. "The prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment represents a fundamental value in a democratic society," the court said. "This applies no matter what -- also in the treatment of terrorists and killers." The court ordered the government to pay Breivik's legal costs of 331,000 kroner, about 41,000.

It can take just a fraction of a second to recognise how someone is feeling after first setting eyes on their face. But in this short time, your brain has analysed the facial features, cross-referenced the information and worked out if the person is in a friendly or foul mood – before you are even fully aware. Now researchers have pinpointed the exact region of the brain where this facial decoding takes place, a part of the brain just above your right ear. Researchers have pinpointed the region of the brain where facial expressions are decoded. Using functional MRI scans, neuroscientists monitored brain activity in people's brain as they looked at images of facial expressions.

This is an introductory tutorial on using Theano, the Python library. I'm going to start from scratch and assume no previous knowledge of Theano. However, understanding how neural networks work will be useful when getting to the code examples towards the end. I recently gave this tutorial as a talk in University of Cambridge and it turned out to be way more popular than expected. In order to give more people access to the material, I'm now writing it up as a blog post. I do not claim to know everything about Theano, and I constantly learn new things myself.

MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), together with researchers from security firm PatternEx, has revealed a new AI (Artificial Intelligence) system called AI2, which can detect 85 percent of cyber-attacks, with false positives rates five times smaller than existing solutions. The new system doesn't rely entirely on artificial intelligence (AI), but also on user input, something that researchers call analyst intuition (AI), hence its name of AI2. Researchers said they fed AI2 with over 3.6 billion lines of log files, allowing the system to scan the content with unsupervised machine-learning techniques. At the end of each day, the system presents its findings to a human operator, who then confirms or dismisses security alerts. This human feedback is then incorporated into AI2's learning system and used the next day for analyzing new logs. After their tests had concluded, MIT and PatternEx researchers said AI2 achieved an 85 percent accuracy rate in detecting cyber-attacks, which is 2.92 times better than similar automated cyber-attack detection systems used today.

Photographs used in Tsvetkov's study. You may think you do, but a recent experiment by a Russian photographer suggests otherwise. In a project entitled, "Your face is big data," Rodchenko Art School student, Egor Tsvetkov, began by photographing about 100 people who happened to sit across from him on the subway at some point. He then used FindFace, a facial-recognition app that taps neural-network technology, to try to track them down on Russian social media site VK. It was ridiculously easy to find 60 to 70 per cent of the subjects aged between 18 and 35 or so, he found, although for older people it was more difficult.

Omoju Miller, a self-described futurist (someone who studies the future's possibilities), enjoys picturing tomorrow. As a Nigerian woman who settled in the Bay Area, she's already torn down historical barriers to work as a software engineer in Silicon Valley, a white man's world. But in envisioning a new society, Miller isn't thinking only of contemporary struggles; she's pondering what humanity will need next. Take one of her projects: Hiphopathy, where she's using machine learning to parse rappers' metaphorical language, in the hopes of teaching a computer to think conceptually, developing, in the process, a form of artificial intelligence. Recently, NationSwell spoke with Miller about true visionaries that inspire her and the lessons we can all take away from their avant-garde thinking.