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4-Nov-08

Robotics: The baby being used to train medics

A "simulated nine-month-old baby used to train medical staff how to deal with a seriously ill baby."

Category: Robotics

17-Oct-08

In conversation with... a computer program

"Stuck for someone to talk to? Elbot is a computer program pretending to be a person. And this week it won a prize for coming closest to fooling people into thinking it was human. The BBC's Mark Lobel catches him in a more...

Category: Robotics

13-Oct-08

Turing test competition - Guardian Version

The results of a recent competition to examine whether computers and 'think'. This article shows a quite different take on the topic when compared to the BBC's point of view.

Category: Robotics

13-Oct-08

Turing test competition - BBC Version

The BBC's take on the results of a competition to judge whether computers can 'think'. This article is interesting when compared to the same topic covered by The Guardian - see next news article

Category: Robotics

6-Oct-08

'Intelligent' computers put to the test'

"Can machines think? That was the question posed by the great mathematician Alan Turing. Half a century later six computers are about to converse with human interrogators in an experiment that will attempt to prove that the...

Category: Robotics

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