Self Awareness is Common in Animals says new Study


So far we associate self awareness with humans and what we believe are the most intelligent animals like apes, monkeys, elephants and dolphins. Science has used the mirror test to determine self...

UC Santa Barbara Researchers develop Artificial Neural Chip


Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have demonstrated the functionality of a simple artificial neural circuit. For the first time, a circuit of about 100 artificial synapses was proved to perform a...

Google DeepMind AI can learn how to Play 49 Classic Atari Games


Google has a machine learning project called DeepMind. Google researches have published today a paper in the Nature Journal that says that they managed to develop a software that is able to learn to...

Why The Future Of Technology Is All Too Human


When Ray Kurzweil published The Age Of Spiritual Machines in 1999, he predicted a new era of thinking machines that will meet and then exceed human intelligence.  The idea seemed outlandish...

Google’s Obsession: Artificial Intelligence And Robots


Google is without question one of the most innovative companies on the planet.  It’s a company that is known mostly for its amazingly successful search and advertising businesses, and will...

Why Is Machine Learning (CS 229) The Most Popular Course At Stanford?


“New Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience,” reads a headline on the front page of The New York Times this morning. The article focuses on machine-learning algorithms, known as a neural...