Artificial Intelligence
Many predict artificial intelligence (AI) will significantly impact society and business. Examples include, autonomous cars, computer understanding of human speech, and machine learning. For example, computer chess games available for commercial desktop machines can beat accomplished chess players including grand masters.
In this section we introduce some interesting examples of artificial intelligence to provide a sense of how sophisticated these technologies are becoming.
Definitions of Artificial Intelligence
- The theory and development of computer systems able to perform tasks that normal require human intelligence, such as visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making, and translation between languages.[1]
- The capacity of a computer to perform operations analogous to human learning and decision making, by an expert system, program for CAD or CAM, or program that perceives and recognizes shapes in computer vision systems.[2]
Orientation
Read the following article from which provides an overview of artificial intelligence technologies.
- Top 10 Hot Artificial Intelligence (AI) Technologies by Gil Press. Retrieved July 11, 2017.
Meet Baby X
- "Imagine a machine that can laugh and cry, learn and dream, and can express its inner responses to how it perceives you to feel. It can express itself in a natural manner but also allows you to visualize the mental imagery emerging in its mind."[3]
Mark Sagar, director of the Laboratory for Animate Technologies, and his team at the University of Auckland developed Baby X, an interactive virtual infant prototype that uses basic neural systems modelling the brain to drive advanced 3D computer graphic models of the face. These lifelike models can interact with humans in real time in behavioral learning models.
For more information on Baby X watch the following videos:
- Baby X V3.0;
- The Astonishingly Real Virtual Baby that Laughs, Cries, and Learns by Mark Sagar at TEDx Christchurch.
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References
- Oxford Reference
- Dictionary.com
- University of Auckland. (2016, April 6). Laboratory for Animate Technologies.