"Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see," Edgar Allan Poe wrote in his 1845 masterpiece "The Tell-Tale Heart." Almost 170 years later, imaging software with artificial intelligence capabilities is making it easier to believe all of what a camera sees. (Part 2 of a 3-part series on technology...
Siri is the crowned jewel of Apple's iPhone 4S. It arrived in smartphone users' pockets back in October. Since then, it has caused quite a stir - from not being able to locate abortion clinics to hogging data on an annoyingly large scale. Siri is based on a DARPA-funded military...
Let's get one thing straight: Apple's Siri is based on a DARPA-funded military artificial intelligence project. It is indicative of the AI-powered future of search. Siri is not just another voice-powered virtual assistant tool.Allegations of Siri being pro-life circulated about the Web yesterday, kicked off by a post on Raw...
If you haven't yet enrolled in the Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class at Stanford University that we mentioned earlier this summer, you still have time to participate in what is being billed as the largest Google+ hangout tomorrow morning. At 8 am PT tomorrow, the two professors teaching the class,...
Not too long ago we told you about how you can access the course materials for Stanford University's introduction to computer science course. If you're looking for something a bit more advanced, Stanford will offer its artificial intelligence class online for free this fall. It will run from Sept 26...
With a victory that was certainly commendable but not really all that surprising, IBM's supercomputer Watson successfully finished the three-day Jeopardy tournament last night by beating its human competitors by a whopping $50,000. A victory for artificial intelligence and computer science. Scrawled at the bottom of his final Jeopardy response,...
Imagine an online community that combines user contributions, editing and fact checking like Wikipedia, with automated data extraction like Google and complex artificial intelligence to create a rich description of the world around us that is continually refined over time. That's what well-backed data startup Factual is aiming to create...
Apple acquired the military-technology spin-off, mobile personal assistant app called SIRI this Spring, but SIRI isn't the only consumer startup cut from the cloth of the $200 million DARPA investment in an artificial intelligence project called CALO.The next SRI/CALO app to launch may be TrapIt, a news feed reading and...
"My background is in Artificial Intelligence and my last business was building predictive data. Most of our customers were oil companies, and you can hold that against me if you like. But my pitch back then was 'just give me enough data, I'll figure out something.' And often enough I...
Between the iTunes Genius Sidebar, Amazon's recommender system and Pandora's virtual DJ, recommender systems are now getting close to knowing my tastes better than I do.There's a certain seductive attraction to the idea that collaborative filtering and artificial intelligence could hand us our heart's desire before our hearts even think...
We have met our share of secretive startups over the years, but few have been as secretive about their plans as Siri, which was founded in December 2007 and did not even have an official name until today. Siri was spun out of SRI International and its core technology is...
In the current Read/WriteWeb poll (see below), we're asking what 'search 2.0' concepts you think stand the best chance of beating Google. The results so far are interesting, because Artificial Intelligence is currently top pick - despite having a history of underachievement in the tech industry and there being no...
Orange Spain, a mobile operator, has two new music services - 'New Talents' and 'Enjoy your Music'. Both are powered by Music Intelligence Solutions, a provider of AI (artificial intelligence) software for music recommendation and discovery.Music Intelligence Solutions is an intriguing company. It was founded in 2002 and is based...
Adobe is continuing to push generative AI efforts as they add new features to Lightroom that aim to make distractions in photographs disappear with a magic eraser. The further expansion into artificial intelligence was announced on Tuesday (May 21) through a company press release. The eraser tool, known as Generative...
Cyberattacks are a constant worry in today's digital world, threatening businesses of all shapes and sizes. Hackers are getting craftier by the day, and our old security defenses just can't keep up. That's why many companies are turning to AI to supercharge their cybersecurity. AI can help them not just...
More than a dozen of the world's top AI companies made new safety commitments at a global summit in Seoul on Tuesday (May 21), according to a statement from the U.K. government. The agreement with 16 tech firms - including ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic - builds on the...
In his inaugural address, Taiwan’s recently elected president, Lai Ching-te, has called for the country to transform into an “AI island.” “As we meet the global challenges of adopting more and more smart technologies, we in Taiwan, a ‘silicon island,’ must do all we can to expedite Taiwan’s transformation into...
Microsoft launched a new range of Windows computers designed specifically for artificial intelligence, called Copilot+ PCs. At a launch event, Microsoft announced a new category of PCs: Copilot+ PCs, named after Microsoft's AI-powered tool. Kitted out with silicon that can handle 40+ TOPS (trillion operations per second), an all-day battery...
Two 'godfathers' of AI add their voices to a group of experts warning there's potential to lose control of AI systems if action isn't taken soon. In July 2023, Dr Geoffrey Hinton made headlines by departing his job at Google to warn of the dangers of artificial intelligence. Now, a...
The crypto market was hit with positive Ethereum ETF news at the start of this week, which helped boost the prices of most altcoins. Bloomberg analysts increased the chances of Ethereum ETF acceptance from 25% to 75% yesterday, providing a boost to the entire crypto ecosystem. Ethereum itself produced the...
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