Robots Get Smarter and Younger

You have to watch where you’re walking at the artificial intelligence conference in Boston, you might trip over a roaming robot or bump into one flying around the room. AI is 50 this summer but that won’t stop bots from driving across the desert like a 20-year-old hot rod.

…it was also a chance for AI’s best minds to discuss the field’s future. At one discussion, Tom Mitchell, chair of the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University, wagered a lobster dinner concerning the fate of AI in 10 years. “By 2016, we will have an AI program that can read 80 percent of the factual content on the web,” Mitchell wagered. If that’s achieved, it would dramatically change the face of AI, he said, creating a never-ending language-learning system fueled by the web. By extracting more and more knowledge from the web, it would read better every day, forever improving itself, he said. Several AI researchers have already taken Mitchell up on his bet. “Either I’m going to get a lot of free dinners, or I’ll have to buy a lobster farm,” he said. Predictions aplenty The predictive capabilities of AI also have experts at the conference foaming at the mouth with possibilities. By mining vast amounts of data about what happened in the past, AI can try to determine what’s going to happen in…

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Robots Get Smarter and Younger

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