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May 10

Tablet do Google vem ai?

Veja mais sobre o futuro Tablet do Google que terá o Android

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18
Apr 10

HowTo: Play StarCraft II Beta Offline vs AI

Here’s a guide to play Starcraft II BETA offline against AI from Atma Xplorer

…So you’ve started watching several Starcraft 2 Beta replays on your PC and you decide that you want in on the action. Unfortunately, you don’t have a BETA key to do that. Don’t worry. Because of the generous guys from Teknogods and Darkblizz, you can now participate in the Starcraft 2 Beta without a BETA key. The bonus? You get to pit yourself against Starcraft 2 BETA offline AI opponents!
Yah, you’d probably want to have the official BETA version thus allowing you to play with other Starcraft 2 Beta players but hey, beggars can’t be choosers. All you need to do is download the following files:

StarCraft II BETA client from any of the following sources

Direct download Part: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Torrent (if you never used torrents before, download and install uTorrent first)

Darkblizz All-in-one tool: Mirror 1…

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1
Feb 10

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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1
Feb 10

The Invention Machine

A machine in search of a problem. Koza is the inventor of genetic programming, a revolutionary approach to AI capable of solving complex engineering problems with virtually no human guidance.

…February 2010: Renovating America
Innovative fixes for five of the country’s biggest infrastructure messes, plus a look the quest to read the human mind, the LCD screen that might finally kill paper dead, and the world’s scariest science.
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27
Jan 10

Stopping Torture, Murder and Mayhem - Powerful Ads from Around the World

Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign and work towards the international recognition and support of human rights. Take a look at some of their most creative and attention getting advertising campaigns.

…It appears that some of the most creative and inventive advertising is coming from nonprofits these days.I’ve been taking a look at the nonprofits and “for a good cause” marketing techniques. Last month, we looked at the Anti-Smoking Campaigns. and Saving Our Environment Campaigns, and the AIDS Campaigns.Today I am just going to focus on one organization. Amnesty International (AI) is a worldwide movement of people who campaign and work towards the international recognition and support of human rights. Take a look at some of their most creative and attention getting advertising campaigns. 1. LOCKED UP…

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23
Jan 10

How AI Works In FPS Games

Ever wonder how artificial intelligence actually works in FPS games?

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23
Jan 10

AI Invades Go Territory

Chess was once the pinnacle of geekdom, but then the artificial intelligence geeks got too smart for chess and turned to Go — an ancient chineese game. Why Go?

…Coulom: In Go, you don’t capture pieces, and so it’s very difficult to say that black is ahead or white is ahead just by looking at the board. In order to survive, a group of stones needs to surround two “eyes” — empty areas that can’t be invaded by the opponent. On a 19-by-19(-line) board, you’ll have plenty of stones whose life or death status is undecided, and this is extremely difficult to analyze statically. This is different from the situation with chess or (checkers), where you can look at the board and say, “I have one more pawn than you.” WN: What are “Monte Carlo methods and how do they apply to Go? Coulom: Monte Carlo methods are named after a quarter of Monaco that’s famous for its casinos. In the case of Go, the basic idea goes like this: To evaluate a potential move, you simulate thousands of random games. And if black tends to win more often than white, then you know that move is favorable to black. WN: With 250 moves in a typical game, that must take a lot of computational power. Coulom: The…

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