Since the earliest forms of science fiction, authors and futurists have dreamed of robots with cognitive abilities matching those of humans. The interactions of these machines with the world of people would come naturally for both sides. Conversations with robots of the future are often imagined as indistinguishable from normal human-human discussions, since the machines recognize the subtleties of language and [...]
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Tags: AI, artificial intelligence, computers, IBM, Jeopardy, robots, Watson 
No Comments »Describing a game as serious doesn’t seem like the best marketing strategy. Games are supposed to be fun and entertaining, not filled with and built upon all the world’s already thriving negativity. So IBM’s announcement that it’s releasing a new game called CityOne seems counterintuitive for reasons far beyond the fact that IBM isn’t known [...]
There’s no denying that the “green energy” movement is here to stay. And while renewable energy generation from wind sources continues to increase, large scale solar power plant deployment remains hindered by the high cost of photovoltaic solar panels, despite the vast quantities of solar energy that bombard the planet each day. Sure, there’s government sponsored tax credits that encourage [...]
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