WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has begun seeking a country, most likely in Africa, that might be willing to provide shelter to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi if he were forced out of Libya, even as a new wave of intelligence reports suggest that no rebel leader has emerged as a credible successor to the Libyan dictator.
"Siri" is an attempt at creating a "personality" (mainly by using humor), and a line of new robot toys, pets, and assistants to the elderly or post-traumatic patients is another small beginning, signaling a wave of new artificial intelligence (AI) machines that will actively employ emotions when communicating with us humans.
We also expect the consumer-led shift to m-commerce to prompt a wave of retailer investments in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
A wave of arrests — apparently based on fortuitous intelligence — seems to have decimated its ranks, depriving the group of fighters who might have risen and taken over.
Today, we are at an inflection point, poised for a wave of applications that close the loop between computational intelligence and the physical world.
MOOCs were largely unknown until a wave of publicity last year about Stanford University's free online artificial intelligence course attracted 160,000 students from 190 countries.
The rise of this technology is evident in a wave of new jobs at the intersection of human and artificial intelligence.
In June, Google opted not to extend its contract doing artificial intelligence work with the Defense Department after a wave of public backlash and employee resignations.
He is the latest reported victim in a wave of kidnappings, Iraqi officials say, by members of Saddam Hussein's security and intelligence services.
