Artificial Intelligence Still Lags Behind Humans, Fails Turing Test

Search engine giant Google has a clandestine research and development division which is working on advanced robotics and other futuristic technology. According to The New York Times, Google has its own secret research program...

John McCarthy, the computer scientist to first coin the term ‘Artificial Intelligence' or AI 1in 1955 has passed away at the age of 84. McCarthy not only defined the term Artificial Intelligence - the science and...

Researchers over at HP Labs have inched closer to finding the inner workings of the Memristors, which is touted as a future replacement of Flash drives.Like the Neurons in the brain, the Memristors ‘remember’ the...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Major AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents," where an...

Scientists are developing a new device, sat-nav, which can provide information about the traffic-jams ahead. Although, the market already has smart satellite navigation systems, which inform drivers about the probable stoppages...

British researchers have engineered a new breed of CCTV cameras which can react to specific noises and rotate to capture them almost instantaneously to the headquarters. Those "intelligent" CCTVs are capable of...

Very interesting to see that, in the aftermath of the horrific stabbing spree by Tomohiro Kato in Tokyo last weekend, the Japanese government has outlined plans to use artificial intelligence to monitor what is happening on...

Optical character recognition, usually abbreviated to OCR, is the mechanical or electronic translation of images of handwritten, typewritten or printed text (usually captured by a scanner) into machine-editable text. OCR is a...

You could endure more than a heart break next time you engage in online flirt with an unknown stranger.Security Firm PC Tools has discovered that a Russian-made application nicknamed Cyberlover has infiltrated many dating...

Artificial Intelligence can sometimes play dirty tricks on their users. After Amazon's rather grim recommendations to one of its customers (go kill yourself), it seems that Google's CAPTCHA system decided to go for something,...

Livescribe Founder and Chief Executive Officer Jim Marggraff today unveiled a new chapter in mobile computing – a new paper-based computing platform. The Livescribe platform turns plain paper into a computer screen and bridges...

A reader recently suggested that I write an editorial about the psychology of returning emails. In other words, why is it that some people always seem to respond quickly to your email messages, while others wait a week or more to...

Flash Networks, a provider of mobile Internet Quality of Experience (QoE) solutions, announced that it has launched a content control solution that enables operators to provide safe browsing on the mobile internet in response to...

When a key piece of data changes in the enterprise, one must first treat this new data like a query (i.e., what does this new data mean in relation to what the enterprise already knows). And if new data is not treated first like...

For the most part, network operators have responded to the adult-content threat on mobile by launching content-lock services that shutdown the Internet for users unless they disclose their age or sign-up for the service.These...