IBM’S ‘Rodent Brain’ Chip Could Make Our Phones Hyper-Smart
At a lab near San Jose, IBM has built the digital equivalent of a rodent brain—roughly speaking. It spans 48 of the company’s experimental TrueNorth chips, a new breed of processor that mimics the...
View ArticleThe world’s first true “smart drug” enhances cognition and is deemed safe by...
A perfect start to the day.(Carsten Schertzer/Flickr CC-BY) Most people looking for a cognitive boost in the morning reach for a cup of coffee or tea. But all caffeine really does is lift up your mood...
View ArticleNeurotechnology Provides Near-Natural Sense of Touch
Revolutionizing Prosthetics program achieves goal of restoring sensation Modular Prosthetic Limb courtesy of the Johns Hopkins University A 28-year-old who has been paralyzed for more than a decade as...
View ArticleDeep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at...
In a world first, an artificial intelligence machine plays chess by evaluating the board rather than using brute force to work out every possible move. It’s been almost 20 years since IBM’s Deep Blue...
View ArticleIBM’s Watson Personality Insights service
How it works Personality Insights extracts and analyzes a spectrum of personality attributes to help discover actionable insights about people and entities, and in turn guides end users to highly...
View ArticleHow Your Brain Is Wired Reveals the Real You
The Human Connectome Project finds surprising correlations between brain architecture and behavior ©iStock.com The brain’s wiring patterns can shed light on a person’s positive and negative traits,...
View ArticleSeven Emerging Technologies That Will Change the World Forever
ORIGINAL: IEET – Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies By Gray Scott Sep 29, 2015 When someone asks me what I do, and I tell them that I’m a futurist, the first thing they ask “what is a...
View ArticleAutomating big-data analysis. System that replaces human intuition with...
COMMENT Big-data analysis consists of searching for buried patterns that have some kind of predictive power. But choosing which “features” of the data to analyze usually requires some human intuition....
View ArticleRobotic insect mimics Nature’s extreme moves
An international team of Seoul National University and Harvard researchers looked to water strider insects to develop robots that jump off water’s surface (SEOUL and BOSTON) — The concept of walking on...
View ArticleDNA Is Multibillion-Year-Old Software
Illustration by Julia Suits, The New Yorker Cartoonist & author of The Extraordinary Catalog of Peculiar Inventions. Nature invented software billions of years before we did. “The origin of life is...
View ArticleArtificial intelligence: ‘Homo sapiens will be split into a handful of gods...
Robots manufactured by Shaanxi Jiuli Robot Manufacturing Co on display at a technology fair in Shanghai Photograph: Imaginechina/Corbis A new report suggests that the marriage of AI and robotics could...
View ArticleNetwork of artificial neurons learns to use language
Neurons. Shutterstock A network of artificial neurons has learned how to use language. Researchers from the universities of Sassari and Plymouth found that their cognitive model, made up of two million...
View ArticlePLOS and DBpedia – an experiment towards Linked Data
Editor’s Note: This article is coauthored by Bob Kasenchak, Director of Business Development/Taxonomist at Access Innovations. PLOS publishes articles covering a huge range of disciplines. This was a...
View ArticleA Visual History of Human Knowledge | Manuel Lima | TED Talks
How does knowledge grow? Source: EPFL Blue Brain Project. Blue Brain Circuit Sometimes it begins with one insight and grows into many branches. Infographics expert Manuel Lima explores the...
View ArticleHow swarm intelligence could save us from the dangers of AI
Image Credit: diez artwork/Shutterstock We’ve heard a lot of talk recently about the dangers of artificial intelligence. From Stephen Hawking and Bill Gates, to Elon Musk, and Steve Wozniak, luminaries...
View ArticleAllen Institute researchers decode patterns that make our brains human
Each of our human brains is special, carrying distinctive memories and giving rise to our unique thoughts and actions. Most research on the brain focuses on what makes one brain different from another....
View ArticleIBM’s SystemML machine learning system becomes Apache Incubator project
There’s a race between tech giants to open source machine learning systems and become a dominant platform. Apache SystemML has clear enterprise spin. IBM on Monday said its machine learning system,...
View ArticleGoogle says its quantum computer is more than 100 million times faster than a...
Above: The D-Wave 2X quantum computer at NASA Ames Research Lab in Mountain View, California, on December 8. Image Credit: Jordan Novet/VentureBeat Google appears to be more confident about the...
View ArticleHere’s What Developers Are Doing with Google’s AI Brain
Researchers outside Google are testing the software that the company uses to add artificial intelligence to many of its products. WHY IT MATTERS Tech companies are racing to set the standard for...
View ArticleQuantum Computing
Image credit: .Yuri Samoilov on Flickr Scientists are exploiting the laws of quantum mechanics to create computers with an exponential increase in computing power. Quantum computing Since their...
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