Friday, January 11, 2013 - 3:40pm
In one of his first interviews since joining the company, Razy Kurzweil, a futurism-oriented inventor, has revealed the nature of his mission at Google.
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Monday, August 9, 2010 - 4:56am
We've seen Nao the robot before, both as a homemaker and a darn good dancer. Now, the little 'bot is learning a new trick: being able to approximate the emotions of a human child to better interact with people.
Wednesday, July 28, 2010 - 5:02am
You may have heard of the so-called Singularity — the idea that, thanks to technology, we'll soon be able to upload our minds into computers and become, for all intents and purposes, immortal. It's an exciting notion. Even The New York Times likes the idea. There's just one problem: It's a load of bull.
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 11:01am
When you ask a panel of artificial general intelligence (AGI) experts about when computers will consider us their pets, maybe things don't look so bad for the human race after all. Unless someone throws gobs of money at such a...
Friday, June 19, 2009 - 5:57am
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers holds a symposium every year on Computational Intelligence and Games. Part of the symposium is a sort of "Turing Test" challenge, in which contestants program an AI to play a videogame. The objective...
