This Computer Program Can Teach Itself to Beat Super Mario Bros.
Work done by computer scientist Dr. Tom Murphy suggests that yes, AI can learn to game.
Articles tagged "artificial intelligence"
IBM Accidentally Taught Watson a Bunch of Bad Words
Silly hijinks aside, the episode does illustrate something really important about the differences between computers and humans.
Iamus, a Music-Making Computer, Could Be the Next Mozart
Computers can beat humans at chess, but can they beat Bach?
Everybody Run: We've Created a Self-Aware Robot (But Also It's Kind of Cute)
It's often easy to find advances in robot technology a little bit unsettling, if not downright scary. Practically as long as man has been making machines, we've been worried that they'll evolve and one day take over everything. Of course, for this to…
Take Your Roomba on a Date to the Robot Film Festival
The second annual "Robot Film Festival":http://robotfilmfestival.com/ is tomorrow in New York! Founded by friend of Motherboard and social roboticist "Heather Knight":http://motherboard.vice.com/2010/7/7/social-roboticist-heather-knight-wants-you-to-…
Video: Lower Dens' Jana Hunter Looks Into the AI Soul and It's Us
I don't how to describe the look on Jana Hunter's face at the beginning of this, as she stares into the glass eye of some kind of artificial intelligence that is also us, staring back out at her through a lens looking much like the bottom of a glass
The Learnin' Corner: Algorithmic Randomness
_Marcus Hutter is a professor in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University in Canberra. He’s most notable for his work in the field of artificial intelligence theory, which is like philosophy with way more math. He…
So I'm Taking a Stanford Artificial Intelligence Class With Like 100,000 Other People
Maybe you are too? Sticking with it? Good, cool. Otherwise, the class is Introduction to Artificial Intelligence and it's offered by Stanford's engineering school. It's free (except the book), online, and the admissions criteria basically consists of…
Why We Love Messing With AI Bots
One day, artificial intelligence will be powerful enough to blend seamlessly with consciousness. Its presence will be so ubiquitous, its influence so permeating, that all of human civilization will be guided and micromanaged in accordance with the al…
MIT Uses Video Games to Create the Smartest, Scariest Computer Ever
Remember how much of a pain _SimCity_ was? Now imagine trying to play it in Russian. Researchers at MIT have created machine-learning systems that are able to analyze instruction manuals to help them beat video games. By correlating terms they come a…
Whoa, a Computer with Schizophrenia
Holy what? The computer is known as DISCERN and it's intended to simulate the sort of neural networks that occur in the brain and, importantly, what happens when you distort those networks--in this case via an excessive release of dopamine. Resea…
RIP David Rumelhart, Godfather of Connectionism
The cognitive scientist David E. Rumelhart, who sadly "died last week":http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/health/19rumelhart.html of an Alzhemier’s-like disease, put forward some ground-breaking ideas about cognition in the ‘80s.
George Plimpton: Nope, Supercomputers Still Can't Manage Baseball Teams or Counsel Marriages
When he learned that Garry Kasperov lost to Deep Blue, back in '97, George Plimpton wasn't nervous. He was certainly not about to cede his manly manliness to a computer, simply because it won a stupid game of chess. As he told "PBS":http://www.resear…
A Computer Named Watson Won Jeopardy: Video
IBM's Watson computer won Jeopardy last night against its two most successful human players. While Watson cooled off underneath the special Jeopardy stage IBM built for the purpose of showing off their storied new brand name, the audience could be he…
