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AI Yet to Master Boardgame 'Go'

The Chinese game of Go has proven to be a tough challenge to those in the artificial intelligence field.  Advanced AI has been developed for many other games, with perhaps the most famous being chess. However, Go is in ... Read more
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Distributed AI Coming to a Computer Near You

Canadian high-tech startup Intelligence Realm is constructing a distributed virtual brain, one computer at a time. Utilizing a computational model we’ve seen in such projects as SETI@Home, the system will harness the computing power of thousands of machines throughout ... Read more
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Evolving Artwork Generated by Distributed System

The Electric sheep open-source screensaver utilizes a network of 60,000 computers to render frames of an ever changing collection of fractal-based animations. A genetic algorithm is employed to ensure that no two animations are the same and that desirable visuals ... Read more

Annual Turing Test Challenges

There are presently two major chatterbot contests which utilize the Turing Test as the determinant - the bot which most closely comes to passing (or does pass) the Turing Test is deemed the winner. These two contests, the Loebner Prize ... Read more
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Bioloid: Highly Configurable Robot

Since being released a couple years ago, the Bioloid hobbyist robot has quickly grown in popularity due to its incredible versatility. Available in several kits of varying complexity, the robot is capable of being programmed and physically configured to ... Read more

Artificial Intelligence
Distributed AI Coming to a Computer Near You
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Artificial Intelligence - General
Saturday, 30 May 2009 18:36
computernetwork-smallCanadian high-tech startup Intelligence Realm is constructing a distributed virtual brain, one computer at a time. Utilizing a computational model we’ve seen in such projects as SETI@Home, the system will harness the computing power of thousands of machines throughout the world to achieve its goal.
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New Strong AI Conference
Artificial Intelligence - General
Wednesday, 15 April 2009 07:32

agi-conference-smallIt seems like these days a majority of the developments in the field of Artificial Intelligence are in Weak AI - something like the logic used in Google searches or chess programs.  However, many people find Strong AI (also known as Artificial General Intelligence) a bit more interesting.  It's what most laymen think about when they hear the term 'Artificial Intelligence', having seen AGI portrayed in movies such as HAL from 2001 and Star Trek's Data.  For those of us interested in AGI, some good news: there's a new annual conference covering the topic of AGI, attended by members of both the business and academic communities.
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