Computer Sciences
Recent public interest in tools like ChatGPT has raised an old question in the artificial intelligence community: is artificial general intelligence (in this case, AI that performs at human level) achievable?
Mar 31, 2023
0
39
Machine learning & AI
Progress in artificial intelligence has enabled the creation of AIs that perform tasks previously thought only possible for humans, such as translating languages, driving cars, playing board games at world-champion level ...
Jul 26, 2022
0
14
Computer Sciences
When you read a sentence like "This is my story...," your past experience tells you that it's written by a thinking, feeling human. And, in this case, there is indeed a human typing these words: [Hi, there!] But these days, ...
Jun 28, 2022
1
10
Consumer & Gadgets
While waiting to board a plane on a recent trip out of town, an airline staff member asked me to momentarily take off my face mask to allow the facial recognition technology to check me in to expedite my boarding process. ...
Jan 19, 2022
0
26
Robotics
Human beings have the ability to recognize emotions in others. Although perfectly capable of communicating with humans through speech, robots and virtual agents are only good at processing logical instructions, which greatly ...
Apr 28, 2021
0
15
Internet
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the way we work and interact with machines—and people—in the workplace. The surge in remote working brought on by the pandemic has magnified the need for unmanned work operations. More ...
Feb 8, 2021
0
12
Robotics
People tend to accept robots with humanlike characteristics up to a point. Then, things get strangely uncomfortable.
Nov 2, 2020
0
33
Machine learning & AI
A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from Chalmers and University of Gothenburg has developed a framework to study how language evolves as an effective tool for describing mental concepts. In a new paper, they show that ...
Jul 16, 2020
0
13
Machine learning & AI
Noam Chomsky, the revered and reviled genius once famously described as "the most important intellectual alive", turned 95 Dec. 6. He is a monumental figure in modern linguistics, and only a slightly lesser deity in psychology, ...
Dec 7, 2023
0
25
Robotics
Robots passing cognitive tests such as recognising themselves in a mirror and being programmed with a human sense of time are showing how machines are being shaped to become a bigger part of our everyday lives.
Apr 15, 2020
0
22
