artificial intelligence

IBM’s Jeopardy!-playing AI is off to Africa to solve pandemics

11 Feb 2014 1 min read News

Once trained to trounce the best players on the planet at Jeopardy!, IBM’s artificially-intelligent supercomputer Watson is heading to Africa to mine data that could help solve problems like disease and water scarcity. Although IBM has had difficulty marketing Watson outside of cancer centers, it’s

Watch this talented robot do abstract sketches of your favorite movies

09 Jan 2014 1 min read News

When I watch Annie Hall, I see Woody Allen getting testy with a dilettante who doesn’t like Fellini. But when a computer watches Annie Hall, it sees a series of triangles drawn repetitively on a white sheet of paper. This is just one difference between man and robots. That’s what I took away from vi