Education is one thing, and working life put into practice something else, or is it? Many business schools are now experimenting with virtual reality. To make the learning experience more authentic to what is waiting outside the doors of the university. Business theory education thereby is complemented with actual training …
Sophia is a social humanoid robot developed by Hong Kong-based company Hanson Robotics. It is the first non-human to receive citizenship in a country. When it received citizenship in Saudi Arabia in October 2016 as the first non-human ever in any country. Artificial intelligence is developing fast. Something which is …
“Talk to Books” is a new form of search where you ask questions and Google’s AI reads and selects small pieces from the world library of books that produce the answer. This is a new kind of search where using sentences will in most cases get better results than using …
Cognitive science research indicates that humans use a form of the three-dimensional model to perceive and take action in the close environment. Now researchers at MIT are using this approach to improve artificial intelligence’s ability to interact in the real world. Professor Josh Tenenbaum, at MIT’s Department of Brain and …
Baxter Robot Grasps objects A human baby very fast learns to grasp different objects in unstructured environments. Until now this has been a complicated and very slow task for robots. Lerrel Pinto and Abhinav Gupta at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh has taken up this challenge and invented the Baxter …
European Time Machine is one of six proposals that received funding in a large-scale research initiative from the European Commission. The project focus on using historical big data to design and visualise the historical development of cities across Europe. Amsterdam is one of many cities that now are following in …
Artificial intelligence is not at all smart. As a matter of fact, a three-month-baby is much smarter than any AI-system, which is something that researchers at MIT have acknowledged. The team has started exploring the fundamentals of human intelligence. With the aim to in the first step “reverse-engineer human intelligence”. …
As artificial intelligence is making its way into society, research on the consequences of the development is lagging behind. Artificial intelligence can improve our lives if we use it properly. But for this, we need to know what we can benefit from the systems and what the weaknesses are. Technology …
Imagine Digital – Connect Europe (ICT 2018) was the biggest event during the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. It took place December 4-6 in Vienna with more than 6300 participants from 120 countries. The discussion included EU funding within the framework programme Horizon 2020. Since 2014 …
2100 European researchers have taken on the challenge to develop a Google-inspired infrastructure for artificial intelligence to take up competition against China and the US. The collaboration is called the Confederation of Laboratories for Artificial Intelligence Research in Europe (Claire). It includes experts from 29 countries. As Europe has a …
