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Gaming

AI Programs Do Battle In Ms Pac-Man

Everyone loves a few rounds of a classic video game, but why should humans have all the fun? The Ms Pac-Man vs Ghost Team Competition serves to redress the balance by putting AI controllers in charge of video game characters in an effort to see which plays the game best.

April 1, 2011
Science

Give $1 To Stop Terminators. Seriously.

There’s nothing you can do to prevent another Terminator movie. But if you have a buck, you can do something to stop real Terminators…or at least ensure that they’ll like us when they show up.

February 22, 2011
Computing

Can A Super Smart Computer Teach Game Characters To Be As Stupid As Humans?

Supercomputer Watson can best the best of us in Jeopardy, but can it make the games we play at home more challenging and fun?

February 18, 2011
Computing

Ken Jennings Was The Bad Guy On Watson’s Home Turf

You’d expect the trembling masses of humanity, terrified by the superior digital intellect of Watson, to have some solidarity. Not so, says formerly impressive Jeopardy player Ken Jennings. At IBM’s Watson research lab, where the robo-tourney taped, man was the enemy. [Slate]

November 3, 2010
Gaming

The History Of The Uncanny Valley

Partway through the latest Medal of Honor game, you nearly die in an ambush. Your AI buddy saves you, then helps you to your feet. It should be a poignant moment; instead it’s chilling, because his eyes are completely lifeless.

November 2, 2010
Computing

Can A Machine Beat A Human At Starcraft?

Computers that can beat chess grandmasters? Ho-hum. The new arena where artificial intelligence and humans face off is StarCraft.

September 16, 2010
Online

I Feel Like This PayPal Automated Support Bot Most Days

I guess artificial intelligence is not as intelligent as I thought it was. Yes? [Thanks Karl!]

September 10, 2010
Gaming

Are You Smarter Than These iPhone Games?

So many iPhone games depend on the program’s artificial intelligence to challenge you, and so few seem up to the task. Which makes Fidgit’s overview of four games with competent artificial intelligence a welcome relief. I can vouch for Carcassonne. [Fidgit]

August 18, 2010
Science

Ray Kurzweil Does Not Understand The Brain

PZ Myers – a biologist and associate professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris – as a thing or three to say about Ray Kurzweil’s claim that we’ll reverse engineer the brain by 2020. Personal attacks aside, he makes a strong point.

August 17, 2010
Science

Reverse-Engineering Of Human Brain Likely By 2020

Reverse-engineering the human brain, so we can simulate it using computers, may be only a decade away, says Ray Kurzweil, artificial intelligence expert and author of the best-selling book The Singularity is Near.

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