AI

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His words staggered the erudite audience gathered at a technology conference in Oxford last summer. Professor Henry Markram, a doctor-turned-computer engineer, announced that his team would create the world's first artificial conscious and intelligent mind by 2018.

And that is exactly what he is doing.

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/223...

An international team of scientists in Europe has created a silicon chip designed to function like a human brain. With 200,000 neurons linked up by 50 million synaptic connections, the chip is able to mimic the brain's ability to learn more closely than any other machine.

http://facets.kip.uni-heidelberg.de/

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In the world of underwater robots, this is a team of pioneers. While most ocean robots require periodic communication with scientist or satellite intermediaries to share information, these can work cooperatively communicating only with each other

http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/wordlogic-bank-help-build-‘thinking’-machines-16567.html

Information scientists announced an agreement last month on a “concept bank” programmers could use to build thinking machines that reason about complex problems at the frontiers of knowledge—from advanced manufacturing to biomedicine.

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/csail-tt05...

It takes surprisingly few pixels of information to be able to identify the subject of an image, a team led by an MIT researcher has found. The discovery could lead to great advances in the automated identification of online images and, ultimately, provide a basis for computers to see like humans do.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/busi...

Edd Hifeng barely merits a second glance in Second Life. A steel-gray robot with lanky limbs and linebacker shoulders, he looks like a typical avatar in the popular virtual world.

But Edd is different.
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Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have created a character with the capacity to hold beliefs and to reason about the beliefs of others. They are prepping their character to compete later this year in a turing test challenge.

http://www.current-biology.com/content/articl...