Science-fiction movies have long promised us the gift of robots – big or small, but very smart and helpful. However, in real-life, the robotic industry has translated only in industrial, scientific, and space applications, with very few companies trying to address the consumers. Until now. Meet Cozmo, the brain-child of Overdrive developer Anki. If you’ve ever watched Pixar’s animation … [Read more...]
Stephen Hawking Speaks About Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is what scientists consider a slope humanity could use to propel our technological advance even further, and at a faster pace than ever before. By gradually replacing human labor with machines, automatizing a lot of the trivial tasks through computerized assistance and developing more complex algorithms mechanisms to facilitate research, humanity can move forward at an … [Read more...]
A computer named “Eugene Goostman’ just passed the Turing Test
No one is sure whether this moment would be the proud moment or a terrifying moment for Alan Turing. In 1950, Alan Turing proposed a test which can determine the independent thinking abilities of a machine just like a man. He had profoundly argued that the machines are thinking as they are 30% of the times for the machines to make a mistake during the bunch of conversations on keyboard. A bot … [Read more...]