Topic: Artificial Intelligence

Google's Project Glass: Are people ready for sci-fi eye wear? (+video)

Google's Project Glass turns Terminator-vision into an upcoming product. But is Project Glass feasible? Or even desirable?  

Find My Face: facial recognition with less privacy angst

Find My Face on Google+ is opt-in feature. So Google+ users won't have facial recognition unless they choose Find My Face.

Russia's lie-detecting ATM: not just a KGB fantasy

Designed by a company whose clients include the KGB's successor, the new ATM performs facial recognition, reads fingerprints, and checks voiceprints to determine whether users are lying.

Reader recommendation: The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.

IBM's Watson: Can a computer outsmart a Jeopardy! braniac?

IBM's Watson may school two of Jeopardy!'s top players, but does it represent a true advance in artificial intelligence?

Defining intelligence in the Watson computer on Jeopardy!

The IBM computer Watson, appearing on Jeopardy! this week, may defeat the human players. But humanity is the real winner by gaining a better understanding of what real intelligence is.

YouTube adds captions to millions of videos

YouTube's automatic caption tool, which was previously restricted to a handful of channels, is set to go into wide-release.

New role for robot warriors

Drones are just part of a bid to automate combat. Can virtual ethics make machines decisionmakers?

Plants and wasps are smarter than you think

Seedlings know when they're from the same plant, and wasps get smarter as they get tougher tasks, studies show

Horizon highlights – Missed opportunities edition

Robots tend the tomatoes

The plants request water or fertilizer, and robots deliver it.

Fish “talk” much like primates