Within two or three decades the difference between automated driving and human driving will be so great you may not be legally allowed to drive your own …
Source: Moral Machines – The New Yorker
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Big Swing: Robot Sportswriter Outperforms Human : NPR
When University of Virginia baseball player Will Roberts pitched a perfect game this spring, his feat was covered by two kinds of writers — one human and one electronic. Of the two, the sports website Deadspin determined that the computer better captured the essence of the game.
Source: Big Swing: Robot Sportswriter Outperforms Human : NPR
IBM Watson
Watson, the IBM computer that will compete on Jeopardy!, represents an impressive leap forward in analytics and systems design. The underlying DeepQA architecture is designed to find the meaning behind a question posed in natural language and deliver a single, precise answer.
Source: IBM Watson
Skynet meets the Swarm: how the Berkeley Overmind won the 2010 StarCraft AI competition | Ars Technica
StarCraft, one of the most popular games ever made, also serves as the perfect proving ground for artificial intelligence.