After defeating the two greatest Jeopardy! champions of all time, the technology behind Watson will now be applied to some of the world’s most enticing challenges. Watch a breakdown of the match from Ken Jennings, Brad Rutter and the IBM team members as they look toward the future. Want more information? IBM’s Watson AI software

Watson is an artificial intelligence program developed by IBM designed to answer questions posed in natural language. Named after IBM’s founder, Thomas J. Watson, Watson is being developed as part of the DeepQA research project. The program runs on POWER7 processor-based systems. In 2011, Watson competed on the television quiz show Jeopardy! as a test [...]

Intelligence is a term describing a property of the mind including related abilities, such as the capacities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, learning from past experiences, planning, and problem solving. The Study of Intelligence Intelligence is most widely studied in humans, but is also observed in animals and plants. Artificial intelligence is the intelligence [...]

Dennis Hong, the founder and director of RoMeLa, a technology and robotics lab based in Virginia, gets straight in to discussion and video demonstrations of his robotic lab’s awesome robots in his talk below. The robots focus on various forms of robotic motion, such as walking, climbing and humanoid style. I really think some of [...]

I previously discussed how Henry Markram claimed to be able to build an artificial brain within 10 years time, so I thought it would be apt to show footage of a lecture he gave at TED regarding this topic. I still find this idea to be fascinating along with all the moral, scientific and philosophical [...]

If you know me much at all, you’ll know I have a small hobby centred around artificial intelligence. Fact or fiction, anything containing traces of AI tends to peak my interest, so obviously when a leading scientist in the field, Henry Markram made this announcement I was most interested. Henry Markram, the director of the [...]