Category Archives: Artificial Intelligence

The brain builds a base before specializing

In a recent article in ScienceDaily they discussed some interesting findings.  The researchers performing the test had 21 infants (11 months old) stare at a screen with a butterfly on it.  The screen would introduce additional visual distractions and as … Continue reading

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IBM creates “brain like” chip

As part of a project named SyNAPSE, IBM announced that it has built prototype chips which mimic human brain function.  It appears these are hardware neural network chips with some additional functionality.  IBM has stated that these chips were designed … Continue reading

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Swarmanoid robotics video (AIVC 2011 winner)

Below is the 2011 AAAI video competition winner.   It shows some very interesting and advanced capabilities and the creators of this video and robot swarm deserve a lot of credit for their accomplishment. I will be covering more on … Continue reading

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Stanford offers free artificial intelligence classes

Stanford recently announced that they are making several courses available online and free to the world.  These aren’t just the usual pre-recorded YouTube style classes, but instead are run just like any other e-learning course, except in this case, to … Continue reading

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Coming soon…

NetFlap, the artificial intelligence enthusiasts site, is now online!  Still some design and setup work to be done, but expect the posts to start soon!

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