RPI is aiming to pass AI's final exam this fall, by pairing the most powerful university-based supercomputing system in the world with a new multimedia group designing a holodeck, a la Star Trek.

At a recent conference on artificial intelligence, the researchers unveiled the "embodiment" of their success to date: "Eddie," a 4-year-old child in Second Life who can reason about his own beliefs to draw conclusions in a manner that matches human child

The behavior of the computer replicates, with shocking precision, the cellular events unfolding inside a mind. "This is the first model of the brain that has been built from the bottom-up," says Henry Markram, a neuroscientist at Ecole Polytechnique Féd

While robots are a long way from matching human emotional complexity, the country is perhaps the closest to a future — once the stuff of science fiction — where humans and intelligent robots routinely live side by side and interact socially.

Tesseract 2.0 is fully trainable. This page describes the training process, provides some guidelines on applicability to various languages, and what to expect from the results.

Make3D converts your single picture into a 3-D model. It takes a two-dimensional image and creates a three-dimensional "fly around" model, giving the viewers access to the scene's depth and a range of points of view.

Using this approach, we have created qualitatively correct 3-d models for 64.9% of 588 images downloaded from the internet, as compared to Hoiem et al.'s performance of 33.1%. Further, our models are quantitatively more accurate than either Saxena et al.

Begun as a research project in 1984, Cyc is now a working technology with applications to many real-world business problems. Cyc's vast knowledge base enables it to perform well at tasks that are beyond the capabilities of other software technologies.

This is Open Mind Commons, a site where you can help an artificial intelligence learn about the world we live in.