Read more artificial intelligence stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/114/artificial-intelligence.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 4:51:50 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/65819/autopilot-safety-under-scrutiny.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagOne minute Qantas Flight 72 was cruising at a level altitude, autopilot humming. Then suddenly, for no apparent reason, the Airbus A320 went into a nosedive, as the pilots helplessly watched. Eventually, they righted the plane, but not before 115 passengers were injured. Nor was this an isolated incident. Automated...http://www.newser.com/story/65819/autopilot-safety-under-scrutiny.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 01 Aug 2009 9:55:04 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65356/hall-of-fame-voting-so-predictable-a-computer-can-do-it.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe Baseball Writers of America turn out to be a predictable lot. A new computer program from a Missouri State computer science professor can accurately predict who’ll join the Hall of Fame, the Wall Street Journal reports. Given a set of 1,592 players who retired between 1950 and 2002,...http://www.newser.com/story/65356/hall-of-fame-voting-so-predictable-a-computer-can-do-it.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 27 Jul 2009 7:37:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/65305/experts-fear-robots-will-outsmart-humans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWith Predator drones bombing villages and robots plugging themselves in, is Hal from 2 001: A Space Odyssey around the corner? Leading researchers met recently in Monterery Bay, Calif., to address such fears. Runaway superintelligence seems unlikely, they concluded, but speech synthesis technology could aid data-hunting crooks, and autonomous robotic...http://www.newser.com/story/65305/experts-fear-robots-will-outsmart-humans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 25 Jul 2009 19:37:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/64025/robot-learns-to-smile.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagIt's a milestone for robots: One has learned to smile and make realistic facial expressions on its own for the first time, Wired reports. University of California researchers put their Einstein robot in front of a video camera attached to facial recognition software, which gave it feedback as it randomly...http://www.newser.com/story/64025/robot-learns-to-smile.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 10 Jul 2009 8:45:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/57324/nerds-bet-machine-can-beat-man-on-jeopardy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHal, meet Watson. IBM announced it will unleash a new supercomputer program, named after founder Thomas J. Watson, which they say could beat human competitors on Jeopardy , the New York Times reports. More advanced than the software that beat chess champion Gary Kasparov in 1997, Watson will weigh nearly infinite...http://www.newser.com/story/57324/nerds-bet-machine-can-beat-man-on-jeopardy.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 27 Apr 2009 10:27:11 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/54979/another-year-another-april-1-google-prank.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNot even massive layoffs in its own house can stop Google from having a little fun on April Fools' Day, the Business Insider reports. The search giant announced it had turned on CADIE, the "world’s first 'artificial intelligence' tasked-array system." The neural network quickly went rogue and revealed a deep...http://www.newser.com/story/54979/another-year-another-april-1-google-prank.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 01 Apr 2009 9:39:27 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/50936/killer-robots-pose-danger-to-humans-report.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe warfare of the not-so-distant future will rely on robots that can make decisions for themselves—and for our own safety, they’ll need a firm code of conduct, says a US Navy report in the first “serious” study of robot ethics. “There is a common misconception that robots will do...http://www.newser.com/story/50936/killer-robots-pose-danger-to-humans-report.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 16 Feb 2009 13:58:51 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/47310/pentagon-wants-virtual-parents-for-military-kids.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe US Department of Defense hopes to ward off trauma for children with deployed parents by replacing mommy or daddy with a computerized replica, Melissa Lafsky writes for Discover . The proposal, pitched on DoD’s “Small Business Innovation Web” site, describes a “highly interactive PC- or Web-based application to allow family...http://www.newser.com/story/47310/pentagon-wants-virtual-parents-for-military-kids.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 08 Jan 2009 11:25:02 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/31738/thinking-bots-may-probe-planets-for-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWALL-E they aren't, but future space robots may decide how and where we explore other planets, Space.com reports. Using what expert Wolfgang Fink calls “tier-scalable reconnaissance,” orbiting spacecrafts could choose where to deploy airships that drop rovers on planet surfaces. NASA and Europe may test the software on a...http://www.newser.com/story/31738/thinking-bots-may-probe-planets-for-us.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 06 Jul 2008 18:10:33 CDT