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Could self-aware cities be the first forms of artificial intelligence?True Viral News
The cities of the future will be huge and super-dense -- but will they also be alive? Could the increasingly complex systems needed to manage the next generation of megacities become our first true artificial intelligence? People have speculated before about the idea that the Internet might become self-aware and turn into the first "real" A.I., but could it be more likely to happen to cities, in which humans actually live and work and navigate, generating an even more chaotic system? As cities become more networked and their mixture of urban infrastructure and surveillance infrastructure becomes more complex, eventually we'll have to build cities that can think for themselves. People have speculated about the potential for computer systems to help in urban planning forever, including papers about the use of "fuzzy logic" to automate the decision-making process and A.I. solutions for land use planning, and the an A.I. "spatial decision support system."
How IBM Is Building A Business Around WatsonTrue Viral News
In 2004, Charles Lickel was eating in a dinner with some colleagues when he noticed that all of the patrons were rushing to the bar. Curious, he followed them to see what all the commotion was about. As it turned out, they were going to see Ken Jennings' historic six-month run on the game show, Jeopardy! Paul Horn, then director of IBM Research, had been bugging Lickel to come up with an idea for the company's next "grand challenge," Big Blue's tradition of tackling incredibly tough problems just to see if they can be solved. The last one drew wide attention when the firm's Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov at chess in 1996.
Firm builds artificial intelligence toolkits for companies to use
The team: Dutt, who has a background in theoretical physics and has done software-development work at Hewlett-Packard, Microsoft and Intel, oversees an 11-person team that includes software developers, mathematicians, data-science experts and a psychologist. "What's nice about the Seattle area is there's a growing job force, and talent in educated people who are skilled at doing these kinds of things," Dutt said. Not quite robots: Artificial intelligence is a pretty broad term (and often misused, industry insiders say). When Dimensional execs say A.I., they don't mean a fully conversant robot that can also fold your laundry. Instead, they're building a software platform that provides off-the-shelf pattern recognition and analysis tools.
Intelligent Text Analytics and Contract Document Analyzer
Xoriant has been instrumental in helping our rapidly growing business's scalability issues all the way from providing support which is from level 1 to level 3 24*7. Infact, Xoriant support team has been fundamental in the growth of our company. We have become to be known for the rich user interface which is developed by Xoriant team. Xoriant's contribution in extending our applications to mobile (BlackBerry, Android) has been tremendously helpful for us in building a new channel of operations. My experience with Xoriant team has been positively aligned to growth goals and they have been nimble and responsive in their approach always looking to opt for bigger and bigger roles to execute.
open-source-society/data-science
This is a solid path for those of you who want to complete a Data Science course on your own time, for free, with courses from the best universities in the World. In our curriculum, we give preference to MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) style courses because these courses were created with our style of learning in mind. To officially register for this course you must create a profile in our web app. Just create an account on GitHub and log in with this account in our web app. The intention of this app is to offer for our students a way to track their progress, and also the ability to show their progress through a public page for friends, family, employers, etc.
5 Reasons Why Robots Are the Future of Sports Officiating
Every year and in every sport, digital technology's role in officiating live gameplay expands. Innovations like MLB's Statcast and the NBA's SportVU systems have leveraged data to collect a wealth of information about all aspects of games, offering detailed feedback to help coaches and players improve performance and grant fans greater access. But applying the same technology to help referees make better calls has been much more controversial, in part because the stakes are so high. The decision on a tough call can be the difference between a win or a loss. Officiating is, of course, subjective, and therefore susceptible to human error.
Lifelike Artificial Intelligence for Animals
Last weekend I started a new Virtual Reality and Artificial Intelligence project. This time I am using cats to model lifelike behavior in a virtual environment of a typical home with typical furniture and other objects. Behavior and AI controlled animations are still very limited, and there is lots of work to be done in those areas. My goal is the same as in my previous projects - to make a lifelike artificial intelligence module with personalized and unpredictable, but logical behavior which evolves while the subject learns new things and experiences both pleasant and unpleasant events. This is not based on state machines or simple behavior trees. Instead, it is based on my own research in the field of artificial intelligence, and it resembles real cognitive information processing.