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It’ll take a long time before we see a J.A.R.V.I.S. in real life — University of Illinois at Chicago researchers put MIT’s ConceptNet 4 AI through the verbal portions of a children’s IQ test, and rated its apparent relative intelligence as that of a 4-year-old. Despite an excellent vocabulary and ability to recognize similarities, the lack of basic life experience leaves one of the best AI systems unable to answer even easy “why” questions. Those sound simple, but not even the famed Watson supercomputer is capable of human-like comprehension, and research lead Robert Sloan believes we’re far from developing one that is. We hope scientists get cracking and conjure up an AI worthy of our sci-fi dreams… so long as it doesn’t pull a Skynet on humanity.
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Via: Extremetech
Source: University of Illinois Chicago
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We’re sure when browsing the internet, many of you guys have probably come across an security warning page in your browser, informing you that the page you’re about to visit could install malware onto your computer. It’s a pretty obvious […]
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Biomimicry borrows design solutions from the embedded intelligence within animals’ bodies—chiefly from other species. But occasionally, it also borrows from within the human body. For example, a new study from MIT suggests that buildings of the future could be built with super-strong materials based on the structure of human bones.
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By conventional wisdom, the things we own don’t define us—no matter how much we hope they will. But according to science, there are some reliable correlations between who we are and what we own.
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Think about the last 24 hours of your life. If you’re like most individuals, it was likely filled with dozens of instances of accessing the Internet, probably starting with a smartphone in the morning and a laptop or tablet at night. The Internet is everywhere, and many use it for essential tasks, such as navigation, shopping, work, and school. Because of this, it is hard to imagine having never used it, making the results of a recent study a tad surprising. In the UK alone, 7 million adults have never used the Internet.
The study looks at Internet users age 16 and older, and not surprisingly it is that youngest age group that has the highest rate of Internet usage, with 97.1-percent of the 16 to 24-year-olds age group having used the Web within the last three months. Jumping to the other end of the scale, however, only 34.3-percent of those aged 75 and older have used the Internet.
While it isn’t particularly surprising that the elderly are the least among Internet users, it is also not surprising that they are the demographic most quickly adopting an online presence, with the number of users having jumped 3.6-percent over the previous year to 30.7-percent at the end of 2012. Between the two age groups, we see a slight-but-steady drop in users moving from the youngest to the oldest age groups.
An area that shows an interesting trend is the fairly rapid decline of female Internet users compared to male users as one progresses through the age groups. While female users and male users are nearly identical (down to a tenth of a percent, in some cases) in the three youngest age groups – going up to 54-year-olds – the number of female users starts declining compared to male users in larger percentages from age 55 onward.
In the oldest age group, 43.7-percent of men use the Internet compared to only 27.3-percent of women. Also shown by the study was that out of the European Union, the United Kingdom has the highest rate of overall Internet users compared to other locations.
SOURCE: The Guardian
Study: 7 million UK adults have never used the Internet is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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