Alpha Go and the Holy Grail of AI
In 1943, at the height of World War II, the U.S. military hired an audacious psychologist named B.F. Skinner to develop pigeon-guided missiles. These were the early days of munitions guidance technology, and the Allies were apparently quite desperate to find more reliable ways to get missiles to hit their targets. It went like this: […]
By Michael B. Eliot Foreword by Dr. Lance Eliot: As the AI Insider and a regular columnist for AI Trends, I am pleased to provide you with a posting that was written by a guest author, Michael B. Eliot. In his article, he discusses several key aspects about Expert Systems, a long-time and formative topic […]
In a sign that computers will be able to perform image analysis as fluently as text analysis, a group of Stanford-based researchers were able to make accurate predictions about neighborhood voting patterns based on millions of pictures collected from Google Street View, reports The New York Times. While other academic projects have used artificial intelligence to […]