A.I.'s stay in Denver was a mixed one

The marriage was good, not great.

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Airliner flown 'without pilot' in UAV test

A jet airliner was flown over south-west England recently with no pilot in the cockpit, to test technology that might one day be used to control swarms of unpiloted aircraft from a single fighter jet.

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Robot swarm works together to shift heavy objects

A "swarm" of simple-minded robots that teams up to move an object too heavy for them to manage individually has been demonstrated by robotics researchers.

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Scientists at Northwestern's Intelligent Information Laboratory are working on a project that creates customized newscasts, read by online avatars based on individual preferences. The program automatically generates a virtual news show. Credit: NSF

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David Chalmers is a philosopher of mind, best known for his argument about the difficulty of what he termed the "hard problem" of consciousness, which he typically discusses by way of a thought experiment featuring zombies who act and talk exactly like humans, and yet have no …

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No attention is paid to the nature and the goals of the Hamas. You cannot understand the conflict if you are unaware of Hamas's goal to liberate 'all of Palestine' by force and found an Islamic state there.

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ISAAC ASIMOV'S Three Laws of Robotics need a makeover, according to a couple of AI boffins.

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Everyone is biased.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) will surpass human intelligence after 2020, predicts SciFi and AI notable Vernor Vinge who has warned about the risks and opportunities that an electronic super-intelligence would offer to mankind.

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Impressed and alarmed by advances in artificial intelligence, a group of computer scientists is debating whether there should be limits on research that might lead to loss of human control over computer-based systems that carry a growing share of society's workload, from waging …

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Imagine you're sitting at the dining table reading the latest Wrestling Observer, as you do from time to time. Nothing too crazy, just minding your own business.

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Could an autonomous machine become smarter than the designer? There are machines out there that are extremely intelligent and can learn. Is there a danger to turning over so many things to educated machines? Some computer scientists think so.

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In the future you won't use computers to design a car, the car will form from billions of tiny computers that arrange themselves into anything you want. The physical and computational world will merge. Hope you're ready. More Articles

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"I see a strong parallel between the evolution of robot intelligence and the biological intelligence that preceded it. The largest nervous systems doubled in size about every fifteen million years since the Cambrian explosion 550 million years ago.

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IDF Lt.-Col.

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Amnesty International 's annual report on the state of human rights in 157 countries, criticises Denmark on several issues and calls for a global deal for human rights.

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We can now engineer entirely artificial personalities, and we don't mean your-kid-for-cash strategies like Hannah Montana. Scientists have now evolved artificial personalities based on simulated genetic algorithms.

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"What's new and exciting about Adam is [it is] the first time we've managed to show that a computer can not only think up new scientific ideas, but experimentally test them and decide whether they're true," said Ross King, a computer science professor and lead researcher at Abery …

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In just over a day, a powerful computer program accomplished a feat that took physicists centuries to complete: extrapolating the laws of motion from a pendulum's swings.

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This is a brief technical writeup of the specs behind Google's new CADIE project. I sure hope they know what they're doing, it sounds like they're really pushing the envelope. 20% time indeed!

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The first blog post from Google's Artificial Intelligence, "CADIE":

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Introducing CADIE! Looks like those folks at Google have done it again. Google CADIE is sort of an AI that basically uses Google's search data to create a "personality" for the internet. "She" created her own homepage and everything!

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"I'm concerned. The stakes are very high," Bringsjord said. "If we give robots the power to do nasty things, we have to use logic to teach them not to do unethical things. If we can't figure this out, we shouldn't build any of these robots."

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Meet Laura, the virtual personal assistant for those of us who cannot afford a human one.

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Singularity U, Platonism and the Failure of Futurism.

Précis: Singularity University is going up at NASA Ames, holding out the promise of being the new Mecca for future futurists. Raymond Kurzweil may be a genius, but he's not a prophet.

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Two Dozen Baluch Face Torture In Jail

A Sweden-based Baluch human rights group has urged human rights organizations and lawmakers in the West to intercede on behalf of two dozen Baluch prisoners who are being torture in the infamous Mach Jail in Baluchistan by the Pakistani secuirty forces.

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Excerpt: If Simon Cowell gets his way, Britney Spears could be the next guest star on American Idol. The British producer raved about the singer after she performed on his British talent show X Factor.

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"Sells 12 more MiGs to Khartoum.

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