A diverse set of AI news this week. e.g. use quantum mechanics to define data set relationships?

 

 

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Chaos filter helps robots make

sense of the world

New Scientist Tech Feb. 24, 2009

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University of Oxford researchers

have come up with a way for

map-building robots to accurately

recognize places they have been

before, even when objects have moved

or are approached from a new angle.

Their FabMap software tackles those

problems by having a robot assign a

visual "vocabulary" of up to a

thousand individual "words" for each...

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	Video: Sociable robots learn to get along with humans New Scientist Tech, Feb. 22, 2009
		Robots that monitor emotions of ASD children PhysOrg.com, Feb. 17, 2009

 

 

            It occurs to me that datamining FAQs could build many types of expert systems with AI chat capabilities,

Of course some editing and tuning would be necessary; but 80% of the grunt work could be automated and accuracy verified by cross referencing other FAQs on the same subject or books accepted as definitive.   For example the Q & A of “ASK.com” could be a superbot of many domains of expert systems; growing into thousands of defined topics.

 

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First Crowdsourced Women's Health

Book Released

KurzweilAI.net Feb. 25, 2009

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CureTogether, a Health 2.0 Startup

based in Silicon Valley, will

release the first crowdsourced

women's health book Wednesday.

Assembled from the input of 190

women living with a common, but

poorly understood condition called

vulvodynia, "Vulvodynia Heroes" is

the product of an ongoing online

research...

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Face Recognition: Clever or Creepy? by Simson Garfinkel and Beth Rosenberg New photo programs from Apple and Google include revolutionary face-spotting technology. Read More »

 

Solving AI
by Pedro Domingos
We need a new language for artificial intelligence.
Read More »

 

      Mobil cross language translation AI. 

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kReader Mobile software named First

Place winner in Nokia's Technology

Showcase contest

KurzweilAI.net Feb. 23, 2009

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The kReader Mobile from knfb

Reading Technology has been named

First Place winner in the Technology

Showcase category in Nokia's global

Calling All Innovators contest for

"mobile applications and solutions

to help improve the quality of life

on the planet." knfb Reading

Technology's multi-language

text-to-speech application, with

cross-language...

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            I previously thought of using fractal mathematics to represent complex data set relations.

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Scientists Model Words as Entangled

Quantum States in our Minds

PhysOrg.com Feb. 18, 2009

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Researchers from Queensland

University of Technology and the

University of South Florida have

Investigated the quantum nature of

word associations and presented a

simplified quantum model of a mental

lexicon. They view quantum theory as

an abstract framework for developing

models of "non-separability" (of

which quantum entanglement is a...

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A Soldier's (Robotic) Best Friend

Technology Review Feb. 23, 2009

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The U.S. Army has released new

footage of the BigDog robot--a

sophisticated, four-legged

"pack-bot" designed to carry

340-pound payloads across all kinds

of terrain--up or down hills,

through ice, sand, snow, and

dirt--by monitoring sensors in its

legs and adjusting its posture...

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            this one is for those of you who like math puzzles.

 

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Recipe for Disaster: The Formula

That Killed Wall Street

Wired Feb. 23, 2009

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Financial economist David X. Li's

simplistic Gaussian copula function

for deriving correlations between

financial quantities, adopted by

everybody from bond investors and

Wall Street banks to ratings

agencies and regulators, crashed the

global economy when house-price

depreciation kicked in....

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