The origin of the Nano Banana name

The popular Nano Banana AI image generation model has a curious origin story regarding its uncommon name.

Runway Gen-4.5 overtakes Google Veo 3

Runway is back to the top with its latest Gen-4.5 AI Video model, surpassing Google's Veo 3.

Self-tought AlphaGo Zero beats human trained AlphaGo

Go players around the world might feel a bit better today, as Artificial Intelligence has also beat the AI-experts responsible for creating the AlphaGo bot that beat the best Go players a few months ago.

Let Google's AI decipher your doodles

Games are one of the best ways to interact with artificial intelligence systems, and now Google allows us to play "pictionary" with its own A.I.

Microsoft's Project Adams aims to teach computers "to see"

Digital assistants like Siri, Google Now and Cortana may be very helpful in lots of scenarios; but they also show just how limited their apparent intelligence is. They're still just "dumb" assistants that aim to look a bit more intelligent than they really are, and they really have no clue about the real world we live in. Microsoft wants to change all that with their Project Adam.

Free Online Introduction to AI Course

If you're interested in learning a bit more about Artificial Intelligence, here's a chance to do it while participating in a massive worldwide online class by Stanford School of Engineering.

This Introduction to Artifical Intelligence is part of a online teaching experiment and starts next October 10th.
During your registrarion you can opt between a easier mode and a more advanced one: the advanced track which aspires to be of Stanford difficulty, requiring homework assignments and exams. At any moment you can "drop down" to the beginner track with just quizzes.

Besides this one, you can also enroll in Introduction to Machine Learning and Introduction to Databasess.

Two A.I. Chatbots Talk to Each Other

We already know we can create quite amazing artificial intelligence programs capable of talking with a high degree of realism. But... what if we took one of those A.I. chatbots and made it talk to itself?

That's exactly what Cornell's Creative Machines Lab did, and the result can be seen in the following video.

Turing Test nearly Passed - Artificial Intelligence

This sunday, we almost achieved a very important milestone in Artificial Intelligence (A.I.)

The Turing Test is considered the reference test for AI systems. One person (the jury) communicates with two other subjects - one being another person, the other being a computer running an AI program trying to simulate human behavior.
If the jury cannot tell which is which, it is said the computer has passed the test.

Up till now, no computer was ever able to full the jury, but we got close this Sunday!

The test determines the computer needs to fool at least 30% of the jury, and in this case the winning machine was "only" able to fool 25% of them - just 5% more to go.

Skynet is getting closer... :)

[Update]
If you want, you can play with elbot yourself, (the program that nearly won this competition.)