London, September 25 (ANI): Astronomers in Germany have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm to help them chart and explain the structure and dynamics of the universe around us with unprecedented accuracy.
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Using artificial intelligence to chart the Universe
24.09.2012 - (idw) Leibniz-Institut fr Astrophysik Potsdam
Astronomers in Germany have developed an artificial intelligence algorithm to help them chart and explain the structure and dynamics of the universe around us. The team, led by Francisco Kitaura of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam, report their results in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Scientists routinely use large telescopes to scan the sky, mapping the coordinates and estimating the distances of hundreds of thousands of galaxies and so enabling scientists to map the large-scale structure of the Universe. But the distribution they see is intriguing and hard to explain, with galaxies forming a complex cosmic web showing clusters, filaments connecting them, and large empty regions in between.
The driving force for such a rich structure is gravitation. Around 5 percent of the cosmos appears to be made of normal matter that makes up the stars, planets, dust and gas we can see and around 23 percent is made up of invisible dark matter. The largest component, some 72 percent of the cosmos, is made up of a mysterious dark energy thought to be responsible for accelerating the expansion of the Universe. This Lambda Cold Dark Matter (LCDM) model for the universe was the starting point for the work of the Potsdam team.
Measurements of the residual heat from the Big Bang the so-called Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation or CMBR allow astronomers to determine the motion of the Local Group, the cluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way, the galaxy we live in. Astronomers try to reconcile this motion with that predicted by the distribution of matter around us, but this is compromised by the difficulty of mapping the dark matter in the same region.
Finding the dark matter distribution corresponding to a galaxy catalogue is like trying to make a geographical map of Europe from a satellite image during the night which only shows the light coming from dense populated areas, says Dr Kitaura.
His new algorithm is based on artificial intelligence (AI). It starts with the fluctuations in the density of the universe seen in the CMBR, then models the way that matter collapses into todays galaxies over the subsequent 13700 million years. The results of the AI algorithm are a close fit to the observed distribution and motion of galaxies.
Dr Kitaura comments, Our precise calculations show that the direction of motion and 80 percent of the speed of the galaxies that make up the Local Group can be explained by the gravitational forces that arise from matter up to 370 million light years away. In comparison the Andromeda Galaxy, the largest member of the Local Group, is a mere 2.5 million light years distant so we are seeing how the distribution of matter at great distances affects galaxies much closer to home.
Despite this caveat, our model is a big step forward. With the help of AI, we can now model the universe around us with unprecedented accuracy and study how the largest structures in the cosmos came into being.
Since 2011 Francisco Kitaura has been working at the AIP. His publication is available online on http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.5560 and will soon be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).
Science contact: Dr. Francisco-Shu Kitaura, +49 331-7499 447, fkitaura@aip.de Research, Images, Movies: http://www.aip.de/Members/fkitaura
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Wozniak eager for AI
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak says artificial intelligence (AI) is the next technological frontier.
On the day the iPhone 5 was released in Australia, with some hiccups, Mr Wozniak told business leaders in Brisbane that AI was the next logical step.
'We're still not at the stage where we can sit down with computers and say, 'Here's a problem. Now go and solve it,'' Mr Wozniak told the QUT Business Leaders Forum.
But that day wasn't too far off, he said.
'In 40 years we will have computers that are conscious, that have feelings, that have a personality.
'My iPhone will know so much about me, I won't want you humans.
'A few of us might be replaced by machines, and we might have to restructure society.'
The man who designed the world's first personal computers spoke of how far technology had come since he first began inventing.
Mr Wozniak said he fell in love with computer programming language at first sight and decided he would be an engineer for life.
'I knew it was the love of my life, for the rest of my life I was going to love these little ones and zeros,' he said.
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On the day the iPhone 5 was released in Australia, with some hiccups, Mr Wozniak told business leaders in Brisbane that AI was the next logical step.
"We've made very tiny strides so far in the area of artificial intelligence and yet that really is where the future is," he told the QUT Business Leaders' Forum.
But he said AI wasn't too far off.
"In 40 years we will have computers that are conscious, that have feelings, that have a personality," Mr Wozniak said.
"A computer is going to be your best friend. You'll talk to it. It's going to look at your face and know your expression. It's going to know your heart and soul better than anything in the world.
"A few of us might be replaced by machines and we might have to restructure society.
"So is my iPhone someday. It's going to know me so good I won't want you humans.
"There's so much innovation and thinking of new better ways to do things that every company really has to watch out and move very early if they see something that might totally change people's values."
The man who designed the first personal computers in the world fell in love with computer programming language at first sight, and decided he would be an engineer for life.
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Votorantim Will Use the Services of DIAGNOS in the Bathurst Mining Camp, New Brunswick
BROSSARD, QUEBEC, CANADA--(Marketwire - Sep 18, 2012) - DIAGNOS inc. ("DIAGNOS" or the "Corporation") (TSX VENTURE:ADK), a leader in the use of artificial intelligence ("AI") and advanced knowledge extraction techniques, is pleased to announce that its CARDS technology will be used by Votorantim Metals Canada Inc. ("Votorantim") in the Bathurst Mining Camp, New Brunswick.
The Bathurst Mining Camp (BMC) occupies a roughly circular area of approximately 70 km diameter in the Miramichi Highlands of northern New Brunswick. The area is host to some 46 mineral deposits with known resources and another hundred mineral occurrences, all hosted by Cambro-Ordovician rocks that were deposited in an ensialic back-arc basin.
CARDS (Computer Aided Resources Detection System) is a state-of-the-art computer system used by researchers at DIAGNOS to identify areas with a high statistical probability of containing significant mineral deposits. The backbone of CARDS is the MCubiX-KE (Knowledge Extraction) data mining engine. MCubiX-KE uses pattern recognition algorithms to learn the signatures of positive and negative data points and create a model that can make predictions on the positive or negative nature of new data points. CARDS uses these powerful algorithms to analyze digitally compiled historical exploration data and identify zones with a high potential for the discovery of mineral deposits.
We have been working on this internal project for more than five months. Up to now, 19880 training points (drilling and rock EM and Topo) has been compiled, we are therefore ready to start modeling in the next few days. We will be starting with a known undeveloped base metal deposit signature to focus the targeting process , explained Michel Fontaine, Vice-President of the division of natural resources.
We hope that this new and advanced innovative technology will enable us to identify unexplored targets within the highly prolific Bathurst Mining Camp declared Rodney Thomas, General Manager of Votorantim Metals Canada Inc.
About Votorantim
Votorantim Metals Canada Inc. is a subsidiary of Votorantim Metals is a company that is part of the Votorantim Group that was founded in Brazil in 1918. The Votorantim Group operates in twenty countries and has over 40,000 employees. Votorantim Metais is the largest electrolytic nickel producer in Latin America and one of the world''s leaders in the production of zinc, aluminum and nickel.Votorantim Canada Metals Inc. in conjunction with Xstrata Zinc and El Nino Ventures is operator of the Bathurst Option and Joint Venture which is actively exploring for base metal deposits within the Bathurst Mining Camp.
About DIAGNOS
Founded in 1998, DIAGNOS is a publicly traded Canadian corporation (TSX VENTURE:ADK), with a mission to commercialize technologies combining contextual imaging and traditional data mining thereby improving decision making processes. DIAGNOS offers products, services, and solutions to clients in a variety of fields including healthcare, natural resources, and entertainment.
DIAGNOS can count on a multidisciplinary team that includes professionals in geophysics, geology, Artificial Intelligence, mathematics, as well as remote sensing and image interpretation. The Corporation''s objective is to develop a royalty stream by significantly enhancing and participating in the exploration success rate of mining. For further information, please visit our Website at http://www.diagnos.com .
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Smartphone ATMs Purchase And Exchange Old Devices
September 17, 2012
Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com Your Universe Online
Got a few of those old school Nokia 5120 phones lying around? Try depositing them inside an ecoATM kiosk and see if you cant get at least some parking meter change out of it.
A new artificial intelligence system is able to differentiate various consumer electronics products and determine a market value, then exchange some cash for the product.
Users will be able to walk up to the ecoATM kiosks and accept either cash or store credit for the value the machine gives them.
The ecoATM helps to find second homes for three-fourths of the phones it collects, sending the remaining ones to environmentally responsible recycling channels to reclaim any rare earth elements and keep toxic components from landfills.
The basic technologies of machine vision, artificial intelligence and robotics that we use have existed for many years, but none have been applied to the particular problem of consumer recycling, ecoATM co-founder and NSF principal investigator Mark Bowles said in a statement. But weve done much more than just apply existing technology to an old problemwe developed significant innovations for each of those basic elements to make the system commercially viable.
The ecoATM system began as a wood-box prototype that required a representative to ensure that users were being honest about their trades.
With funding from the NSF Small Business Innovation Research grant, researchers were able to develop artificial intelligence and diagnostics that delivered 97.5% accuracy for device recognition, allowing the ecoATMs to operate unsupervised.
Bowles said traditional machine vision relies on pattern matching, which is pairing a new image to a known one. This approach isnt useful for the ecoATMs evaluation process, which includes eight separate grades based on a devices level of damage.
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AI through the ages
A look back over the years at the major stages of artificial intelligence design.
The concept of artificial intelligence is as old as the ancient Greeks and as new as the robotic rover currently probing the pinkish terrain of Mars, 352 million miles from Earth. In between have come "reasoning calculators," "analytical engines," and Leonardo da Vinci's walking lion. Modern AI began with the advent of the computer.
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3500 BC
Greek myths of Hephaestus, the god of blacksmiths and artisans, include the notion of intelligent robots.
400 BC
Greek philosopher and mathematician Archytas builds a wooden pigeon whose movements are controlled by steam.
13th century
Spanish mystic and theologian Ramon Llull invents a mechanical device that tries to prove the veracity of ideas.
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How artificial intelligence is changing our lives
From smart phones that act as personal concierges to self-parking cars to medical robots, the artificial intelligence revolution is here. So where do humans fit in?
In Silicon Valley, Nikolas Janin rises for his 40-minute commute to work just like everyone else. The shop manager and fleet technician at Google gets dressed and heads out to his Lexus RX 450h for the trip on California's clotted freeways. That's when his chauffeur the car takes over. One of Google's self-driving vehicles, Mr. Janin's ride is equipped with sophisticated artificial intelligence technology that allows him to sit as a passenger in the driver's seat.
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At iRobot Corporation in Bedford, Mass., a visitor watches as a five-foot-tall Ava robot independently navigates down a hallway, carefully avoiding obstacles including people. Its first real job, expected later this year, will be as a telemedicine robot, allowing a specialist thousands of miles away to visit patients' hospital rooms via a video screen mounted as its "head." When the physician is ready to visit another patient, he taps the new location on a computer map: Ava finds its own way to the next room, including using the elevator.
In Pullman, Wash., researchers at Washington State University are fitting "smart" homes with sensors that automatically adjust the lighting needed in rooms and monitor and interpret all the movements and actions of its occupants, down to how many hours they sleep and minutes they exercise. It may sound a bit like being under house arrest, but in fact boosters see such technology as a sort of benevolent nanny: Smart homes could help senior citizens, especially those facing physical and mental challenges, live independently longer.
From the Curiosity space probe that landed on Mars this summer without human help, to the cars whose dashboards we can now talk to, to smart phones that are in effect our own concierges, so-called artificial intelligence is changing our lives sometimes in ways that are obvious and visible, but often in subtle and invisible forms. AI is making Internet searches more nimble, translating texts from one language to another, and recommending a better route through traffic. It helps detect fraudulent patterns in credit-card searches and tells us when we've veered over the center line while driving.
Even your toaster is about to join the AI revolution. You'll put a bagel in it, take a picture with your smart phone, and the phone will send the toaster all the information it needs to brown it perfectly.
In a sense, AI has become almost mundanely ubiquitous, from the intelligent sensors that set the aperture and shutter speed in digital cameras, to the heat and humidity probes in dryers, to the automatic parking feature in cars. And more applications are tumbling out of labs and laptops by the hour.
"It's an exciting world," says Colin Angle, chairman and cofounder of iRobot, which has brought a number of smart products, including the Roomba vacuum cleaner, to consumers in the past decade.
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Alan Turing to be Honored at Welsh Digital Arts Festival
Alan Turing, the pioneering British computer scientist regarded as the father of artificial intelligence, is being celebrated at this year's blinc Digital contemporary digital arts festival in Wales to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth.
The blinc festival, in its second year, will be held on the weekend of Oct. 27-28 in Conwy, North Wales. Curators Craig Morrison and Joel Cockrill have been commissioned to create a laser installation at Conwy Castle that will use programmed "hyperboloids," or Rolling Spheres, to beam "Thank You" in Morse Code across the sky while a plinth on the ground will display Turing's epitaph. Other artists commissioned to produce Turing-inspired digital works include Jessica Lloyd Jones, Ant Dickinson, Helen Booth, festival organizers said.
Turing (June 23, 1912-June 7, 1954) worked as a code breaker during World War II, heading the team tasked with cracking German naval codes at Britain's Government Code and Cypher School (GCCS). Prior to the war while a student at Cambridge, he developed his famous "Turing machine," not an actual computer but rather a hypothetical one that serves as a fundamental tool for understanding how algorithms, computer programming, and computing itself works.
Turing did help design and build functional computational machines in the 1940s and 50s, including groundbreaking experimental computers like the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) while working at Britain's National Physical Laboratory and the Manchester machines at the Royal Society Computing Machine Laboratory run by the famous mathematician and code breaker Max Newman at Manchester University.
But he is most famous today for the "Turing test." This proposed method for determining if a machine can "think" is considered the basis of the science of artificial intelligence. The annual Loebner Prize competition, initiated in 1990 by the American inventor Hugh Loebner, uses a standard Turing test on computer programs entered in the contest to determine which is the most human-like.
The plinth in the Conwy Castle installation, modeled on the fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square in London, "celebrates all that is contemporary in the arts today," Morrison said in a statement.
"Alan Turing's abstract mathematical achievements epitomize what the plinth represents and in some way is responsible for probably most of the artwork that is displayed. His fundamental work in computing has helped to shape what we see in contemporary life. His wartime work on code breaking definitely went towards preserving our freedom of expression," the artist said.
Turing's epitaph, written by the computer scientist to British mathematician and logician Robin Gandy in 1954, reads:
Hyperboloids of Wondrous Light
Rolling for aye through space and time
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Rocket Fuel to Provide Customers With Access to Facebook Exchange
REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 13, 2012) - Rocket Fuel, the leading provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions for digital marketers, today announced its support for the Facebook Exchange (FBX). FBX allows marketers to serve more relevant ads on Facebook via real-time bidding based on individual impression characteristics instead of pre-defined audience segments.
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New artificial intelligence programme could beat 99% of 'Fantasy football players'
London, Sep 13(ANI): A new artificial intelligence computer programme, which can beat 99 per cent of fantasy football players, could one day be used to save lives by selecting a dream team of medical staff.
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Global Telecoms – Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence
NEW YORK, Sept. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue:
Societies to be based on smart technologyBuddeComm's annual publication Global Telecoms Smart Societies and Artificial Intelligence, provides the key global trends and insights for these important and interesting sectors which will form the communities of the future.
In our complex societies, developments do not take place in isolation; they need to be looked at within a broader context and policies, strategies and activities need to be comprehensively linked. This is perhaps best described under the title 'smart city' or 'smart community'.
Making infrastructure smart basically means adding intelligence to the networks through sensors, devices, M2M, etc that generate reliable data that can be processed in real time to provide information to all those involved in making decisions about their energy use, transport movement, weather conditions, financial status, healthcare monitoring etc.
By combining these databases in a trans-sector way linking energy to traffic to healthcare, to weather, to economics we will be able to move from the current silo-based structure to a true trans-sector structure.In the context of the global crisis, we must now look at every opportunity to build smarter communities. The next stage of human evolution is going to depend on merging humans and machines, something that is becoming increasingly possible through artificial intelligence (AI).
Smart communities should incorporate cross-sector public safety, carbon neutral, state of the art communications networks, linked to a new generation of social services provided by government, such as e-government, e-health and e-education. Smart Transport systems are also integral to a smart society.
Smart Transport, better known as Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS), increase the safety and efficiency of transport networks from public bus, tram and train transport, to rail and road freight transport, and private and commercial road transport. ITS systems include the software and hardware for new electronic vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication/information systems.
In 2012 there are now a number of countries around the world whose governments are actively investigating the social and economic benefits that can be achieved through the deployment of a mainly fibre-based broadband telecoms infrastructure.
The United Nations has also earmarked broadband as critical infrastructure in its Millennium Development Goals. ICT will not solve the problem of world hunger, but it cannot be solved without ICT, and this equally applies to all the other challenges.
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Computer, read my lips: Emotion detector developed using a genetic algorithm
A computer is being taught to interpret human emotions based on lip pattern, according to research published in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing. The system could improve the way we interact with computers and perhaps allow disabled people to use computer-based communications devices, such as voice synthesizers, more effectively and more efficiently.
Karthigayan Muthukaruppanof Manipal International University in Selangor, Malaysia, and co-workers have developed a system using a genetic algorithm that gets better and better with each iteration to match irregular ellipse fitting equations to the shape of the human mouth displaying different emotions. They have used photos of individuals from South-East Asia and Japan to train a computer to recognize the six commonly accepted human emotions - happiness, sadness, fear, angry, disgust, surprise - and a neutral expression. The upper and lower lip is each analyzed as two separate ellipses by the algorithm.
"In recent years, there has been a growing interest in improving all aspects of interaction between humans and computers especially in the area of human emotion recognition by observing facial expression," the team explains. Earlier researchers have developed an understanding that allows emotion to be recreated by manipulating a representation of the human face on a computer screen. Such research is currently informing the development of more realistic animated actors and even the behavior of robots. However, the inverse process in which a computer recognizes the emotion behind a real human face is still a difficult problem to tackle.
It is well known that many deeper emotions are betrayed by more than movements of the mouth. A genuine smile for instance involves flexing of muscles around the eyes and eyebrow movements are almost universally essential to the subconscious interpretation of a person's feelings. However, the lips remain a crucial part of the outward expression of emotion. The team's algorithm can successfully classify the seven emotions and a neutral expression described.
The researchers suggest that initial applications of such an emotion detector might be helping disabled patients lacking speech to interact more effectively with computer-based communication devices, for instance.
More information: "Lip pattern in the interpretation of human emotions" in Int. J. Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing, 2012, 3, 95-107
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Fujitsu to build software robot to pass college entrance exams
Fujitsu said Monday it will lead a project to create artificial intelligence capable of passing the math portion of the entrance exams to one of Japan's top universities.
The company's research division said its goal is to make software by 2021 that can complete exactly the same math test that hopeful teenagers take when applying to Tokyo University, or "Todai," known for its grueling entrance requirements. The project will need to process text and formulas meant for human eyes, extract the math problems and convert them into a form meant for computers, and then solve the problems at the level of Japan's top high school students.
"Each of these steps still poses major theoretical and practical problems, and for each one, the solution will involve an appropriate combination of various technologies," Fujitsu said in a statement.
Sample questions from previous tests posted online show world problems that must be solved in consecutive stages, geometry problems that refer to drawn diagrams, and problems that require the application of specific equations memorized by test takers.
Currently, only about half of the problems on some such tests can be solved by computers alone, even using advanced algorithms, the company said. The exam problems will also have to be solved quickly and without mistakes.
A software robot that could pass university entrance tests would strike a major emotional chord in the country, where the tests are a major part of society. Most students attend cram schools for years to prepare for the tests, in addition to their normal schools, and often become full time cram-school students if they fail to get into the university of their choice. Sample problems are published in national newspapers each year, and TV stations cover the posting of results outside the buildings of top universities.
Fujitsu said it hopes to use technology developed in the project to create intelligent systems that are capable of performing advanced analysis on themselves, for self-optimization and similar tasks.
The electronics conglomerate will oversee the math portion of a larger project announced last year that aims to pass all subjects of the entrance exams at the university, called "Can a robot enter Todai?" The project is being run by the National Institute of Informatics, a publicly funded software research foundation.
Its stated goal is to create software capable of achieving a strong score on the tests by 2016, then get marks high enough to win entrance by 2021. It was founded as a way to unify the increasingly diverse areas of study in artificial intelligence.
Any robots that do wish to take the entrance exams should be careful, as calculators and other electronics are forbidden by the university.
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Rocket Fuel Announces Audience Accelerator
REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 10, 2012) - Rocket Fuel, the leading provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions for digital marketers, today announced the availability of Audience Accelerator, a full-service audience extension platform that helps publishers and vertical networks create new exclusive advertising packages based on their unique audiences.
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Rocket Fuel is the leading provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions that transform digital media campaigns into self-optimizing engines that learn and adapt in real-time, and deliver outstanding results from awareness to sales. Recently awarded #22 in Forbes Most Promising Companies in America list, over 700 of the world's most successful marketers trust Rocket Fuel to power their advertising across display, video, mobile, and social media. Founded by online advertising veterans and rocket scientists from NASA, DoubleClick, IBM, and Salesforce.com, Rocket Fuel is based in Redwood Shores, California, and has offices in fifteen cities worldwide including New York, London, Toronto, and Hamburg.
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Advertising That Learns: Eric Porres of Rocket Fuel to Present at Advertising Week DC 2012
REDWOOD SHORES, CA--(Marketwire - Sep 10, 2012) - Rocket Fuel, the leading provider of artificial intelligence advertising solutions for digital marketers, today announced that CMO Eric Porres will deliver a keynote presentation at Advertising Week DC (ADWKDC). Porres will deliver a presentation titled "Advertising that Learns" on Tuesday, September 11th at 10:45 am at Federal Hall at The Washington Plaza Hotel.
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Meet Ms. Siri, Your New Teacher
A London-based startup, Kuato Studios, is expected to come out later this year with a newgameto teach kids computer programming.
This isnt a lightly "gamified" platform like Khan Academy's new computer science offerings or Codecademy. Kuato Studios is building an immersive, richly illustrated third-person shooter that will have 11- to 15-year-old players "terraforming a virtual world through coding and science," created by developers from companies like Konami and Rockstar Games.
The game boasts a special secret sauce: the next generation of "virtual personal assistant" technology from SRI, the research institute that created the iPhones Siri. (Frank Meehan, Kuato Studios founder, sat on the board of Siri Inc.) According to reports elsewhere, the updated Siri, called "Lola," is better at remembering the context of specific conversations, understanding natural speech, and reasoning--all qualities that would be nice to have in a virtual teacher who can answer direct questions, drop hints when a learner gets stuck, and dole out encouragement when she succeeds.
As edtech newsletter Edsurge points out, IBM just announced its own mobile version of AI engine Watson, in a push to build a $16-billion business analytics business. Putting AI into educational apps may not be far behind.
Anya Kamenetz is a senior writer at Fast Company, where she writes the column Life In Beta about change. Shes the author of two books, Generation Debt ... Continued
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GEMINI to Represent Insiders Technologies´ ´smart FIX´ in India
MUMBAI, September 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
smart FIX is an Artificial Intelligence Technology Solution for Business Process Optimization and Document Understanding
GEMINI Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of the 122-year-old Yusuf Bin Ahmed Kanoo Group of Companies, Bahrain, have signed up with Insiders Technologies GmbH, Germany, to represent them for their smart FIX products in India. GEMINI shall market and provide complete technical support for smart FIX and additionally, in the near future, set up a Centre for Excellence for the Indian and Middle-East regions.
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smart FIX is a state of the art Intelligent Document Processing and Business Process Optimization solution to manage formatted, semi-formatted and unformatted documents.
Today, ERPs, CRMs, e-mail solutions have been implemented with latest database management systems to manage all important business data, but when it comes to inputting these data into these sophisticated systems, one still has to manually feed in the information from the incoming documents and emails. Now imagine a solution which can read these incoming documents and emails, and then transfer the relevant business data into the ERPs or CRMs automatically.
Developed by Insiders Technologies, smart FIX is an automated document processing solution with inbuilt Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology that captures, organizes and intelligently analyzes the relevant extracted business information from formatted (like account application form), semi-formatted (like Supplier Invoices) or unformatted (like Emails) documents. It then makes the data available for further processing in a desired structured format to be integrated with any third party software application systems including, but not limited to SAP, BaaN, Oracle Financials, Document Management Systems, etc.
The smart FIX solution is a self-learning and self-optimizing system that helps in improving quality of data captured and also, increases operational efficiency. Thereby making it an ideal product for verticals such as insurance, banking, retail, manufacturing, hospitality and government institutions. Additionally, being a stand-alone product with no dependencies, software development companies can consider smart FIX as an OEM product to add value to their products.
"smart FIX, that we have brought to India in association with Insiders Technologies, Germany, is a market leader in Europe with awards such as The Great Price of Medium Sized Companies Mittelstandsprogramm, Grosser Preis des Mittelstandes to its credit. The Artificial Intelligence Technology inbuilt in smart FIX makes it a unique product especially when it comes to capturing data from incoming Emails or unformatted text, " said Mr Ramarao - General Manager of GEMINI Software.
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AI On The Rise: Defeating CAPTCHA, Combating Fruit Flies, Traffic Control Teaching Assistants
Artificial intelligence is on the road to breaking the whole CAPTCHA system. The question that follows is: how are we going to prove we are humans then? According to a Forbes.com article, hackers who are trying to defeat CAPTCHAs are essentially creating programs to think like humans. To counter this, companies will tend to generate and invest on more sophisticated Turing tests in order to secure their sites to being invaded by bots. Although playing like antagonists, hackers and companies are pushing forward to the evolution of AI.
CAPTCHA which stands for CompletelyAutomatedPublic Turing test to tellComputers andHumansApart is the system that generates those distorted and blurry images and scribbles and asks you to solve for simple math problems before entering a particular website or verifying your log-ins. For those who have poor eyesight, this is no fun. But then again, there is the audio option. CAPTCHA is engineered to safeguard a site from malicious software or bots.
With extensive AI researches being funded, like the $15 million Series A round for Vicarious, we could be using blood samples, DNA tests or iris scanning just to ensure that our information will not be stolen. As for me, I just wish that CAPTCHA system get ahead of bots since using biological features as log-ins or passwords sounds really scarybrings back a lot of sci-fi flicks memories.
And when we talk of frightening futuristic sci-fi movies that move around AI, Terminator perhaps is at the forefront. I grew up with the Franchise from very unconvincing robot antics to shocks!-it-is-really possible-to-happen mentality. The man-made Skynet which was initially invented to eliminate human error turned to eliminating human (drop the error and replace it with race). How did this happen in the movie? With exponential growth of intelligence that outpaced human brains capacity. Day by day, with updates in AI, it seems that this is no fiction anymore. Paranoid as I may seem, I am not alone in this boat as a Sub-Reddit dedicated to preventing Skynet was set in place. The wide-ranging discussion contains uncanny and hilarious ideas from netizens. See the comments here.
Cloud-Based Teaching Assistant
Sooner or later, the many instances you see a teaching assistants along hallways rigorously checking essays of students will be a thing of the past. A Maryland psychology professor invented a cloud-based writing assignment evaluator to alleviate the workload of checking and grading student papers, which he called SAGrader.
Surprisingly, SAGrader was not made for English and journalism subject, but rather science and social science classes. The tool also is a time saver and engagement booster (professor-student) at the same time.
Students know exactly what they got right, what they got wrong, and what they need to do to improve, Swope said, adding that the programs best value is likely found in the planning time educators and their classroom assistants will have once essay grading is left to the cloud. With all the extra time on their hands, they can make themselves available to focus on the things in class that really matter.
SAGrader inventor Joe Swope designed the system to analyze student submissions using several artificial intelligence strategies. At a glance, this seems like an absurd idea since essays are largely subjective and dependent on a lot of factors including the students writing style, keywords, etc. But according to the website, SAGrader was built to model thousands of ways a student can express a concept, not just identifying keywords. It has a framework that could actually assess if the essay is correctly explaining relationships between concepts. The tool works with professors for each assignment to build an outline of the correct content of knowledge. If the answers do not match the pre-determined outline, SAGrader will then furnish a feedback and tell students what information are they missing.
Traffic Control
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Outside View: The Mars Landing and Artificial Intelligence
As the field of Artificial Intelligence continues to make progress, there is a question of what protocols should be developed to make sure such developments are accomplished in a responsible way.
NEW YORK, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- In the NASA video called "Seven Minutes of Terror," which famously went viral over the last month, Tom Rivellini, one of the engineers in charge of the landing, outlines its eye-popping difficulty.
As he says, the Mars lander had to go "from 13,000 miles per hour to zero, in perfect sequence, perfect choreography, [with] perfect timing, and the computer has to do it all by itself, with no help. ... If any one thing doesn't work just right, it's game over."
The idea of having a computer do it "all by itself," with just 500,000 lines of computer code to allow its artificial brain to work, is at the core of engineering agony.
After their years of hard work and emotional and monetary investment (to the tune of $2.5 billion), the humans in charge had to leave the most crucial part of the mission to an artificial proxy. And they were not exactly sure if this proxy would work the way they intended, because there was no way to test it completely.
This situation illustrated two pressing issues regarding the development of digital servants: our apparently perennial insecurities about using them and whether we are too hasty to rely on them.
The idea of creating artificially intelligent proxies to do what humans cannot -- because the job is too dirty, dangerous or dreary, is a surprisingly old one. It goes all the way back to the ancient Greeks and it reappears in every age in slightly different forms.
In his "Politics," Aristotle reminds his audience that the blacksmith-god Hephaestus made robot-like serving stands that could move around the banquet halls of the gods by themselves; and then he ponders the idea of making intelligent machines, such as weaving looms, that could "obey and anticipate" the will of their makers.
In the Middle Ages, stories appear about famous philosophers who make artificial servants. One such story is about Pope Sylvester II, who was also a very accomplished mathematician and inventor. Medieval contemporaries claim that Sylvester had made a talking brass head that could predict future events and could also outperform humans at mathematics.
In Shakespeare's time we have Robert Greene's play depicting the creation of a similarly precocious metal head. This lineage of artificial servants picks up again in the early 20th century most famously with Karel Capek's play of the 1920's "R.U.R.: Rossum's Universal Robots," in which the term "robot" -- a Czech word meaning "slave" or "worker" -- was first used. Rossum's world is one in which Earth's citizens have come to rely on intelligent robots for everything.
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