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[FutureWire - futurism and emerging technology] Artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, neural networks, the Fifth Generation project -- they've all had big moments in the sun. The reality is we've not had much success." But he's not as pessimistic as he sounds, as he has founded a company called Numenta to build a computer memory platform that mimics human thought processes. Others, citing rapid advances in computing power and efficiency, believe we may be much closer to major breakthroughs. Says James Albus, a senior fellow and founder of the Intelligent Systems Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, "We are at a tipping point...
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[Aaai.org] AI in the news: 'We leave most of the social work in our society to women and The Sims lets young girls, in particular, work out their desires and conflicts about those relationships,' said Professor [James Paul] Gee, whose team has formally interviewed about 100 children and included more than 50 others in continuing projects during the four years they have studied video games. 'Rather than calling it a dollhouse, it's like they are writing their own interactive stories in The Sims to do what novelists do, which is explore personal themes about social relationships.
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