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There you go, the latest-and-greatest chip is there. Now the only remaining tiny detail - program it.

Let's buy it first and we'll figure the rest out later :P

I'm sure Leo will love it. Yet another argument not to have a facebook account or a smartphone.

Ditched? I never had either! But then on the other hand a recent Dilbert summarised me pretty well...

so you also don't have a mobile phone? I thought I knew only one person of my age who does not have one yet ... congratulations

enjoy ....

ok, but if we first have to define consciousness before starting dealing with any physics, isn't a large pause looming ahead, proposed by the author?

I kind of subscribe to Tononi's information theory approach to consciousness: http://www.biolbull.org/content/215/3/216.full And of course the watered down wikipedia version for whoever lacks the patience to read the whole treatise http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_information_theory

DeepMind actually got a comp-sci paper into nature...

Responding to calls from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), a working group of the American Statistical Association has developed a whitepaper detailing how statisticians and computer scientists can contribute to administration research initiatives and priorities. The whitepaper includes a lot of topics central to machine learning and data mining, so please take a look.

I guess Norvig is trumping Chomsky big time if this is the attitude of the NSF :)))

This is the interesting master project of a good friend from my university, not really related to space though. Replacing the drone's wifi antenna by an Avalanche Victim Detector, it could be a very promising tool to deploy the first avalanche searches.

Robot self-adapts its gait when limbs are damaged.

"As you read this, your neurons are firing - that brain activity can now be decoded to reveal the silent words in your head TALKING to yourself used to be a strictly private pastime. That's no longer the case - researchers have eavesdropped on our internal monologue for the first time. The achievement is a step towards helping people who cannot physically speak communicate with the outside world." Or alternatively, a step towards snooping into individuals' privacy.

Soon we'll be able to see movies about our dreams!

Only if you are willing to have a chip implanted into/onto your brain though ^^

Eve, an artificially-intelligent 'robot scientist' could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society journal Interface. The team has demonstrated the success of the approach as Eve discovered that a compound shown to have anti-cancer properties might also be used in the fight against malaria.

Unfortunately, "make drug discovery faster and much cheaper" actually means "increase profit margin for pharmaceutical companies"...

TensorFlow is an open source software library for numerical computation using data flow graphs. Nodes in the graph represent mathematical operations, while the graph edges represent the multidimensional data arrays (tensors) communicated between them. The flexible architecture allows you to deploy computation to one or more CPUs or GPUs in a desktop, server, or mobile device with a single API. TensorFlow was originally developed by researchers and engineers working on the Google Brain Team within Google's Machine Intelligence research organization for the purposes of conducting machine learning and deep neural networks research, but the system is general enough to be applicable in a wide variety of other domains as well.

And the interface even looks a bit less retarded than theano

Anna will rule the world!!!!

So... start preparing to be required to attach your brain scan along with your job application...

We humans take for granted our remarkable ability to predict things that happen around us. Here, a deep learning model trained from real-world videos and a 3D graphics engine was able to infer physical properties of objects against humans.

"Here we report the development of the computer algorithm Melvin which is able to find new experimental implementations for the creation and manipulation of complex quantum states." Published in Physical Review Letters. Researchers target future use more artificial intelligence algorithms, such as reinforcement learning techniques.

Most self-respecting artists wouldn't agree to paint a portrait of a toilet in the middle of a field. Fortunately, advancements in artificial intelligence have given computers the ability to imagine just about any scenario, no matter how bizarre, and illustrate it. Take a look at this image.

Those are some creepy faces among them.. This is also just completely random isn't it?

Well, biased to the data it was trained on. Computing a net is pretty deterministic. But not everything is perfectly correlated yet. Still nice progress.

This collaborating swarm of drones acts as 3D pixels (voxels) to create giant, flying interactive displays.

I have never understood the flying part of these things. Isn't it really impracticle to have all those tiny quadrocopters zooming around. My money is on holography or still a google glass type of device, if only considering the energy requirements for doing anything kinetically.

Babies learn about the world by exploring how their bodies move in space, grabbing toys, pushing things off tables and by watching and imitating what adults are doing. But when roboticists want to teach a robot how to do a task, they typically either write code or physically move a robot's arm or body to show it how to perform an action.

I am having less and less faith in the Dwave machine, but nonetheless, maybe we should have a look at our future encryption techniques...

why less and less ... ?

Inspired by the work that was done at the ACT, I continued working on optical flow landing at TU Delft. Today Bio & Bio published my article on a new theory that allows drones to see distances with a single camera. It shows that drones approaching an object with an insect-inspired vision strategy become unstable at a specific distance from the object. Turning this weakness into a strength, drones can actually use the timely detection of that instability to estimate distance. The new theory will enable further miniaturization of autonomous drones and provides a new hypothesis on flying insect behavior. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm7SMJp8EA4&feature=youtu.be Article: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-3190/11/1/016004