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The Mind’s Eye program seeks to develop in machines a capability that currently exists only in animals: visual intelligence. Humans in particular perform a wide range of visual tasks with ease, which no current artificial intelligence can do in a robust way. Humans have inherently strong spatial judgment and are able to learn [...]

DARPA pushing a new field called the Machine Reading Program (MRP) that combines natural language processing and understanding, knowledge-based systems, knowledge acquisition, and machine learning. The goal is to create an automated “Reading System” that serves as a bridge
between knowledge contained in natural texts and the formal reasoning systems that need such knowledge. [...]

I just saw this in the DARPA Strategic Plan for 2009:
Computer systems are essential to military logistics and planning, command and control, and battlefield operations. However, as computing systems have become pervasive in DoD, they have also become increasingly more complex, fragile, vulnerable to attack, and difficult to maintain. The computing challenges facing DoD in [...]

I still have not figured out the exact algorithm that is being used, but Roger Alsing shows some interesting results in his post Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa. I don’t think it is the classic Genetic Programming as per Koza, but the results are really cool. Hopefully he will release the source [...]

I am not certain exactly what they are doing, but this job listing at Positronic, Inc. sounds like fun:
We’re looking for individuals with experience and drive in one or more of the following areas;
* Natural Language Processing – parsing, semantics, meaning extraction
* Information Storage and Retrieval – [...]

AAAI has a cool visual representation of the artificial intelligence field. A much larger version allows you to drill into the landscape and see the various areas of research. Dang – I used to be a member of AAAI, but I gave it up years ago. There is also an AI timeline, [...]

I have not belittled the poor computer recently, but with the recent revival of The Terminator Sarah Conner Chronicles and its tendency to make computers so smart, I thought this would be an interesting test. This test has everything going against the machines, but if they plan on rising up and crushing all of [...]

…then don’t act like a sheep. photo credit: russelljsmithSteve Steinberg’s new blog, called comma separated values, has an interesting entry about group think and the predictability of not only groups, but also individuals within those groups. Also known as crowd dynamics. Alas, many of the comments are concerns about “one’s personal [...]

10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers is an article over at the Developing Intelligence blog written by Chris Chatham – an excellent list of reasons Computers != Brains. Not to say all of these reasons are hurdles that can never be overcome in the pursuit of artificial intelligence, it just points out many [...]

Repliqa is now in Alpha. I got an invite a couple of days ago and have tried it out. It is invitation only for the moment, so head over there to request an invitation or read the Repliqa Blog to get the full story. They recently began tracking websites, so be sure [...]