Artificial intelligence News

The US Navy has conducted the first launch of an unmanned autonomous aircraft from an aircraft carrier. The test flight of X-47B stealth drone, designed to launch from an aircraft carrier, was conducted over the Atlantic.

It’s not quite the Borg Collective of Star Trek fame but this week, the prospect of sentient, reasoning robots took a step closer as the European Roboearth project deployed its alpha version of a standardised knowledge base for robots.

Before and after the release of the iPhone 4S, tech reviewers profiled Siri, its voice-recognition software that allows users to speak in their natural voices to schedule meetings, send messages, locate resources, place phone calls, and more.

MIT researchers set a computer program a test- Start a game with no idea of how to play it, with only the game manual as a reference. The game was the famous Civilization strategy game. The computer played, learned and won.

Magdeburg - RoboCup German Open 2011 is an international soccer tournament for robots taking place at Magdeburg, Germany, with the ultimate goal of developing a robot soccer team capable of beating the human World Cup champions.

New York - Host Alex Trebek stated at the top of "Jeopardy" that it would be an historic day one of the hit quiz show. The latest competition pits Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter and Watson, an IBM computer.

Vancouver - Pat Methany is one of jazz fusion's most innovative and vibrant talents, and with his new Orchestrion World Tour he is bringing a new robotic band with artificial intelligence to a concert hall near you.

It's a lazy journalist's dream and a dedicated journalist's nightmare. A computer program unveiled earlier this month spits out sports copy when game stats are input.

Perhaps the oldest story line in science fiction is intelligent machines dominating the world. From Daleks to drones to C3PO and Robbie the Robot, machine intelligence has always had an audience. Now, it’s got real scientists worrying about it.

A recent competition pitting Artificial Intelligences (AI) against each other has been won by a system designed to take free kicks like a professional soccer player.