Artificial Intelligence

Emotion recognition (TechXplore)

AI can now identify human emotions based on facial expression and voice. It can therefore be given instructions on how to react to those emotions — which it assuredly has never felt. But a clever script can make it seem like your AI…

Chatbots: common sense vs. Turing (Techxplore)

The Winograd Schema Challenge is a contest to see who can build the best chatbot. It’s not like the Turing test, which is about fooling a human into mistaking a computer for a fellow human. Instead, it’s about designing…

Nurses’ Aide (TechXplore)

MIT has produced an AI to help nurses in a maternity ward with their scheduling. It comes up to speed by watching the nurses do their own scheduling, but it doesn’t just copy, nor does it take instruction. It uses a technique called…

Cozmo (TechXplore)

Cozmo is a $180 toy robot the size of your fist, deliberately designed to project character. It makes R2-ish noises, plays with you, and had animators and game-designers in its development crew. Miss Manners (Judith Martin) once said that anyone…