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Finally the thing will have a little more artificial intelligence than just "bump into wall, turn a bit, repeat". We've known for a while now that iRobot has been developing robots with wireless integration along with intelligent navigation capability based on VSLAM (Vision Simultaneous Localization and Mapping). We've know this for enough of a while that it's been a little bit frustrating to see iRobot's most recent Roomba upgrades come out without those neat features.

Amoebae Anticipate Periodic Events

Let me guess, you came across this while looking into Memristors? :) If not, here's the connection: Memristor minds: The future of artificial intelligence http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327151.600-memristor-minds-the-future-of-artificial-intelligence.html ( if you don't have access to the full NewScientist article, there's a mirror here: http://www.mannkal.org/downloads/guests/memristormindsthefutureofartificialintelligence.pdf )

This is related to the "Verified Software" item in NewScientist's list of ideas that will change science. At the link below you'll find the text of the patents being auctioned: http://icapoceantomo.com/item-for-sale/exclusive-license-related-improved-methodology-formally-developing-control-systems :) Patent #7,627,538 ("Swarm autonomic agents with self-destruct capability") makes for quite an interesting read: "This invention relates generally to artificial intelligence and, more particularly, to architecture for collective interactions between autonomous entities." "In some embodiments, an evolvable synthetic neural system is operably coupled to one or more evolvable synthetic neural systems in a hierarchy." "In yet another aspect, an autonomous nanotechnology swarm may comprise a plurality of workers composed of self-similar autonomic components that are arranged to perform individual tasks in furtherance of a desired objective." "In still yet another aspect, a process to construct an environment to satisfy increasingly demanding external requirements may include instantiating an embryonic evolvable neural interface and evolving the embryonic evolvable neural interface towards complex complete connectivity." "In some embodiments, NBF 500 also includes genetic algorithms (GA) 504 at each interface between autonomic components. The GAs 504 may modify the intra-ENI 202 to satisfy requirements of the SALs 502 during learning, task execution or impairment of other subsystems."

Pretty nifty... we should look into this.

the cited paper by Baluška et al (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2010.09.003) is a 2 page summary on the view that roots display swarm intelligence. Nothing really new compared to what those same authors have been writing about, but nice compilation of recent references on the subject.

Trolled :)

University Alliance for Low Carbon Energy   Three universities, including Tsinghua University, University of Cambridge, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, have fostered up an alliance on November 15, 2009 to advocate low carbon energy and climate change adaptation The alliance will mainly work on 6 major areas: clean coal technology and CCS, homebuilding energy efficiency, industrial energy efficiency and sustainable transport, biomass energy and other renewable energy, advanced nuclear energy, intelligent power grid, and energy policies/planning. A steering panel made up of the senior experts from the three universities (two from each) will be established to review, evaluate, and endorse the goals, projects, fund raising activities, and collaborations under the alliance. With the Headquarters at the campus of Tsinghua University and branch offices at other two universities, the alliance will be chaired by a scientist selected from Tsinghua University.   According to a briefing, the alliance will need a budget of USD 3-5 million, mainly from the donations of government, industry, and all walks of life. In this context, the R&D findings derived from the alliance will find its applications in improving people's life.

Why isn't our good old Raymond Kurzweil mentioned? Some of the nonsense written in that page is one-to-one copy/paste from the Signularity bible...

luzi how I miss you!!!!

aren't these the creatures that also Christos bred not so long ago? (like the phrase: forget the zombies .. this is the real threat!")

just read that too, the paper is here (I think that is the one at least): http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/139388/files/PNAS-2009-Mitri-0903152106.pdf

Intelligence agencies are building up a Facebook-style databank of international terrorists in order to sift through it with complex computer programs aimed at identifying key figures and predicting terrorist attacks before they happen.

"We have applied artificial intelligence in many ways, but if you're really going to implement it," Gonzalez said in a recent interview, "the only way to do it is to do it though some sort of embodiment of a human, and that's an avatar."

Intelligent Material Systems and Structures (Virginia)

"weapons for mass construction" - they want to solve everything with a new type of internet. including "swarm awareness" and "hive intelligence"

Employ of semantic knowledge as a source of information to PEIS (Physically Embedded Intelligent Systems)

Tobias - sounds somehow relevant... cockroaches, navigation, swarm intelligence...

The Loebner Prize for artificial intelligence is the first formal instantiation of a Turing Test.

swarm intelligence very impressive ...

yep ... fantastic ...

impressive, particularly the two last videos where u can see the structure growing !

I mainly see neural networks in this... maybe some evolutionary stuff :))

A team from Stanford showing possibility of solar flare prediction using AI techniques and data from the NASA SDO observatory.

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