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Algorithsm to create knitted pictures - just genius!

Exclusive music news, big interviews, entertainment, social media trends and video from the news people at BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra.

Are real robots ever going to be as clever and as evil as they are portrayed in films?

Are real robots ever going to be as clever and as evil as they are portrayed in films?

"WE LIVE IN AN AGE of increasingly smart machines. In recent years, engineers have pushed into areas, from voice recognition to robotics to search engines, that once seemed to be the preserve of humans. But I.B.M. has a particular knack for pitting man against machine. In 1997, the company's supercomputer Deep Blue famously beat the grandmaster Garry Kasparov at chess, a feat that generated enormous publicity for I.B.M. It did not, however, produce a marketable product; the technical accomplishment - playing chess really well - didn't translate to real-world business problems and so produced little direct profit for I.B.M. In the mid '00s, the company's top executives were looking for another high-profile project that would provide a similar flood of global publicity. But this time, they wanted a "grand challenge" (as they call it internally), that would meet a real-world need. "

An older article (2007), but still interesting. Covers the use of AI software to grade English comprehension exam answers. The article includes a bit about how the software works - being trAIned on good examples and then looking for common phrases associated with high marks.

Podcast and transcript. Explains how credit card transactions are checked before being authorised in an attempt to reduce fraud. Essentially this is a neural network combined with a huge database of prior transactions. A good example to show students how ai is used in the "real world" every day.

An Eliza for the 21st century. A 'chat' bot that uses neural networks to generate its answers. Users can also 'train' the neural net using word associations. Collaborative ai?

MIT site about an expressive anthropomorphic robot called Kismet that engages people in natural and expressive face-to-face interaction. Includes videos and good explanations.

A general link which includes stories on the latest developments in AI