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SOINN gets intelligence boost, uses web-based image search to ID objects

Posted by on May 1, 2013 No comments

SOINN robot gets intelligence boost, uses webbased image search to identify objects

Tokyo Institute of Technology’s SOINN (Self-Organizing Incremental Neural Network) bot was impressive enough during our first introduction back in 2011, but the intelligent device can now tap the web for its latest trick: accurate object identification. The updated system, which appears to utilize a database akin to Google’s image search, can scour the web for similar shots, making it possible to ID objects based on comparable structures published on the web. It can distinguish a box cutter from a knife, for example, or a rickshaw from a car. For now, SOINN is limited to identifying objects in images, including those captured in realtime with a camera, but its designers imagine that future revisions could enable content recognition in video streams, and audio clips, too. Our friends at DigInfo saw the update in action — check it out for yourself in the video after the break.

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Goodbye Sherpa, Hello Osito! Predictive Intelligence iOS App Rebrands And Graduates From Beta

Posted by on April 18, 2013 No comments

osito1It was only about three weeks ago when the team behind predictive intelligence app Sherpa announced a hefty seed round and that it was rolling the app out to private beta users. Now it seems they’re all ready for prime time… with a few changes.

Since there’s already a glut of mobile apps named Sherpa floating around out there, founder and CEO Bill Ferrell thought it was high time for a bit of rebranding — to that end Sherpa has been renamed Osito, and it’s ready for you to download in the iOS App Store.
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Toothbrushes, BristleBots And the Nature of Intelligence

Posted by on February 28, 2013 No comments

Fix a vibrating motor to the head of a toothbrush and you have an automaton that can demonstrate surprisingly complex behaviour, say Harvard physicists







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Google acquires e-commerce company Channel Intelligence for $125 million

Posted by on February 6, 2013 No comments

Google just acquired the coupon-focused company Incentive Targeting and retail locker startup BufferBox in November, and it’s now further bolstered its e-commerce offerings with an acquisition of Channel Intelligence for $ 125 million. That company is part of the ICG Group, and offers a variety of marketing and shopping services (primarily concerned with boosting sales) to online retailers, including Staples and Best Buy. It’s also partnered with Google in recent years on Google Shopping. Barring any unforeseen hiccups, the company expects the acquisition to close sometime in the first quarter of this year.

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MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab envisions a future of personal air transport (video)

Posted by on November 18, 2012 No comments

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More fun out of MIT’s AI lab. Grad student Peng Yu happily showed off a couple of flying demos on our visit, controlling an Ar.Drone with a number of methods, including keyboard, tablet (touch), voice and gesture, each naturally presenting their own positives and negatives, in terms of ease of use and specificity. The latter was certainly the most intriguing of the bunch, executed via a Kinect hack that allowed Yu to direct the flying robot over a small model town in the middle of the lab.

Voice, meanwhile, played an important role in a computer demo that keeps in line with a vision from Boeing of a future (some 20 or 30 years out, according to its estimates) in which citizens utilize personal aircrafts capable of carrying two to four people to, say, commute to work. Speaking into the system, the user essentially negotiates with the aircraft, giving a destination, hoped for flight duration and any pitstops to be made along the way. The system in the demo adjusted for storms and let Yu know how quickly it thought it would be able to make the run.

Demos of all of the above can be found after the break.

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Google Breathes New Intelligence into its TV

Posted by on November 18, 2012 No comments

The Knowledge Graph previously used for Web search allows Google’s TV software to take spoken commands







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Google’s Breathes New Intelligence into its TV

Posted by on November 14, 2012 No comments

The Knowledge Graph previously used to for web search allows Google’s TV software to take spoken commands







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Open Source Business Intelligence Company Pentaho Lands $23 Million Series C

Posted by on October 30, 2012 No comments

Pentaho logoOpen source business intelligence vendor Pentaho today announced that it has received a $ 23 million round led by New Enterprise Associates with participation from previous investors Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures and DAG Ventures. This is the company’s 5th round of funding, but it’s being called a series C. This brings the company’s total funding to $ 55 million.
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Is ‘MiniFlame’ spyware latest work of U.S. intelligence?

Posted by on October 15, 2012 No comments

A new espionage tool dubbed “miniFlame” by researchers appears to have come from the same malware factory that created Stuxnet, Duqu, Flame and Gauss.




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New Zealand intelligence agency illegally spied on Megaupload

Posted by on September 24, 2012 No comments

New Zealand's prime minister called on Monday for an inquiry into illegal spying on individuals connected with the now defunct file-sharing site Megaupload by one of the country's intelligence services.
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Artificial Intelligence, Powered by Many Humans

Posted by on September 10, 2012 No comments

Crowdsourcing can create an artificial chat partner that’s smarter than Siri-style personal assistants.

Personal assistants such as Apple’s Siri may be useful, but they are still far from matching the smarts and conversational skills of a real person. Researchers at the University of Rochester have demonstrated a new, potentially better approach that creates a smart artificial chat partner from fleeting contributions from many crowdsourced workers.







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Intelligence Agency Achieves “Holy Grail” of Malware Attacks

Posted by on June 7, 2012 No comments

Stuxnet and Flame show that governments can weaponize what used to be the sole domain of hackers.

Flame, believed by experts to have been created by a Western intelligence agency for purposes of information gathering and espionage, has achieved what has long been called the “holy grail” for malware: replicating via Microsoft Windows’ built-in update system.







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Report: FBI forming new cyber intelligence research unit, focus on digital surveillance

Posted by on May 26, 2012 No comments

FBI forming new cyber intelligence unit to innovate digital surveillance

According to a report filed by technology site CNET, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is forming a new cyber intelligence and research unit dubbed the Domestic Communications Assistance Center (DCAC). The briefing states that the DCAC’s purpose will be “to invent technology that will let police more readily eavesdrop on Internet and wireless communications” (initially focusing on VoIP services, social networks, and wireless communication mediums) . Via a prepared statement, the FBI explained that the unit’s modus operandi will be to “assist federal, state and local law enforcement with electronic surveillance capabilities.” Congress has appropriated over $ 54 million for “lawful electronic surveillance” in fiscal year 2012; the DCAC has been earmarked just north of $ 8 million from that pie. The Bureau’s full statement is after the break.

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Krossover Makes Athletes, Coaches Smarter With Business Intelligence For Sports

Posted by on May 3, 2012 No comments

video-breakdownAnyone who’s played competitive sports knows how important stats, analysis, and post-game film are. They’re an excellent way to improve both personally and on a team level, yet it usually takes a dedicated staff to push out rich, thorough analysis.

Luckily, a new startup called Krossover is ready to help solve that problem.

They call themselves “business intelligence for sports,” offering youth, amateur, highschool and college sports teams fully indexed game footage within 12-36 hours of uploading. This includes searchable film, box scores, shot charts and drive charts, and thorough analytical reports for every player on the team.
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Microsoft Patent Hints At Search Results Tailored To User’s Mood, Intelligence

Posted by on April 21, 2012 No comments



theodp writes “A newly surfaced Microsoft patent application, reports GeekWire, describes a ‘user-following engine’ that analyzes your posts on Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites to deduce your mood, interests, and even your smarts. The system would then automatically adjust the search experience and results to better match those characteristics, explains Microsoft, such as changing the background color of the search interface to suit your mood, or bringing back only those search results that won’t strain your feeble brain. From the patent application: ‘In addition to skewing the search results to the user’s inferred interests, the user-following engine may further tailor the search results to a user’s comprehension level. For example, an intelligent processing module may be directed to discerning the sophistication and education level of the posts of a user. Based on that inference, the customization engine may vary the sophistication level of the customized search result.’”

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Researchers Try To Identify the Intelligence Gene

Posted by on April 17, 2012 No comments



An anonymous reader writes “The world’s largest brain study to date, with a team of more than 200 scientists from 100 institutions worldwide collaborated to map the human genes that boost or sabotage the brain’s resistance to a variety of mental illnesses and Alzheimer’s disease. The study also uncovered new genes that may explain individual differences in brain size and intelligence. From the article: ‘Following a brain study on an unprecedented scale, an international collaboration has now managed to tease out a single gene that does have a measurable effect on intelligence. But the effect – although measurable – is small: the gene alters IQ by just 1.29 points. According to some researchers, that essentially proves that intelligence relies on the action of a multitude of genes after all.’”

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Intelligence Map Made From Brain Injury Data

Posted by on April 10, 2012 No comments



An anonymous reader writes with this news out of the University of Illinois:
“Scientists report that they have mapped the physical architecture of intelligence in the brain. Theirs is one of the largest and most comprehensive analyses so far of the brain structures vital to general intelligence and to specific aspects of intellectual functioning, such as verbal comprehension and working memory. Their study, published in Brain: A Journal of Neurology (abstract), is unique in that it enlisted an extraordinary pool of volunteer participants: 182 Vietnam veterans with highly localized brain damage from penetrating head injuries. … The researchers took CT scans of the participants’ brains and administered an extensive battery of cognitive tests. They pooled the CT data to produce a collective map of the cortex, which they divided into more than 3,000 three-dimensional units called voxels. By analyzing multiple patients with damage to a particular voxel or cluster of voxels and comparing their cognitive abilities with those of patients in whom the same structures were intact, the researchers were able to identify brain regions essential to specific cognitive functions, and those structures that contribute significantly to intelligence.”

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Wikileaks and Anonymous Join Forces Against US Intelligence Community

Posted by on March 1, 2012 No comments



pigrabbitbear writes “The most recent bombshell of confidential documents dropped by infamous watchdog organization Wikileaks is already looking to have an enormous impact on our understanding of government security practices. Specifically, intimate details on the long-suspected fact that the U.S. has been paying a whole lot of money to have private corporations spy on citizens, activists and other groups and individuals on their ever-expanding, McCarthy-style naughty list. But perhaps more importantly, the docs demonstrate something very interesting about the nature of U.S. government intelligence: They haven’t really got much of it.”

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Embodiment, Computation And the Nature of Artificial Intelligence

Posted by on February 6, 2012 No comments

The notion of intelligence makes no sense without a broader view of computation, argues one of the world’s leading AI researchers

One of the buzzwords in artificial intelligence research these days is ‘embodiment’, the idea that intelligence requires a body.







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Omniture Co-Founder’s Business Intelligence SaaS Company Domo Lands $20M From IVP

Posted by on February 1, 2012 No comments

DOMO __ HomeDomo, the SaaS business intelligence startup launched by Omniture founder Josh James, has raised $ 20 million in new funding from Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). This round brings total investment in Domo to $ 63 million. Previous investors include Benchmark Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Ron Conway and David Lee of SV Angel, and Hummer Winblad.

As you may remember, Omniture is a web analytics SaaS company that went public and was subsequently bought by Adobe in 2009 for $ 1.8 billion. Last year, James debuted his next project, Domo, with $ 33 million in funding from Benchmark, and aimed to tackle the business intelligence space. Domo purchased a company called Corda, and started accepting customers on a selective basis to test out the platform.

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Indian Intelligence Have U.S. Government Passwords, Hackers Claim

Posted by on January 13, 2012 No comments

The Indian hacker group that released Symantec anti-virus source code earlier this month now says it has more proof that Indian intelligence agencies are spying on the U.S. government.




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Whiz Kids Crack UK Intelligence Agency’s Online Ad for Code-Breaking Spies

Posted by on December 4, 2011 No comments

The UK intelligence agency GCHQ said Thursday that more than 50 people so far have cracked an online code launched in a bid to track down the spies of the future.




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Google and Microsoft Talk Artificial Intelligence

Posted by on November 18, 2011 No comments

Peter Norvig, Google’s head of research, and Eric Horvitz, a distinguished scientist at Microsoft Research, are optimistic about the future of machine intelligence.

Google and Microsoft don’t share a stage often, being increasingly fierce competitors in areas such as Web search, mobile, and cloud computing. But the rivals can agree on some things—like the importance of artificial intelligence to the future of technology.







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NEA, Steve Case, Ted Leonsis Put $26M In Social Business Intelligence Startup NewBrandAnalytics

Posted by on November 10, 2011 No comments

newnewBrandAnalytics, a company that provides business intelligence from social media customer feedback, has raised $ 26 million in Series B financing led by New Enterprise Associates with Steve Case’s Revolution Ventures, Jeff Webber’s The Entrepreneur’s Fund, Barry Sternlicht (Founder, Starwood Hotels), Neil Shah, Quest Hospitality Ventures, and Ted Leonsis participating.

newBrandAnalytics, which has been in stealth for the past two years, provides a monitoring and analysis product that mines customer reviews from social sites like Yelp, Facebook, Twitter, Trip Advisor. But instead of just serving as a monitoring product, the startup actually analyzes all of this data and will make intelligent, operational recommendations to businesses based on customer feedback.
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Mindshare Technologies Lands $20 Million To Turn Customer Feedback Into Actionable Intelligence

Posted by on October 4, 2011 No comments

73253v2-max-250x250Mindshare Technologies, the provider of survey technologies and realtime customer feedback solutions, announced today that it has received a $ 20 million investment from Sorenson Capital, a private equity firm that specializes in buyout and growth equity investments. The PrivateBank and Trust Company also contributed to the investment, which will be used to accelerate product growth and ramp up hiring.

As part of the investment, Fraser Bullock, managing director of Sorenson Capital and former COO of the 2002 Salt Lake Winter Olympics as well as Ron Mika, a co-founder and managing director of Sorenson Capital, will be joining Mindshare’s board of directors.
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The Average Intelligence of the YouTube Community

Posted by on September 6, 2011 No comments
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