And not only that, it also learns language. Researchers have designed a computer system that can understand language, that is the instructions to play Civilisation II. The video games industry surely can’t wait to get their hands on this. Imagine this: Really smart game opponents.. (via MIT news).
La Jolla CA | São Paulo – Marketing consumer products in Brazil is about to get a lot easier thanks to a small, innovative software company. Arquiware is combining artificial intelligence with natural language processing to enable companies to analyze feelings and opinions social media networks. They are among the first in the world to apply techniques to create tools that enable companies to understand the sentiments of customers.
“Many multi-nationals come to Brazil then realize that it takes more than understanding Portuguese to understand how a brand interacts with consumers.” said Luis Lima, President of Arquiware, “In fact, the diversity of Brazil makes it almost impossible to understand our market unless you use sophisticated tools to extract the true meaning of what people are saying about you.”
Arquiware will add ai-one’s Topic-Mapper SDK to build artificial intelligence into two existing products. SentimentWare and TopicExtractWare analyze text data from social media networks and news feeds. The new capability gives Arquiware clients the ability to understand how any given news event will impact the perception of a brand.
ai-one’s technology is used by telecom companies, security and law enforcement agencies to enable computers to read text in a similar manner to humans. “We are thrilled that Arquiware will apply our technology to social media sentiment analysis. They are ahead of the efforts I have seen in Silicon Valley,” commented Olin Hyde, VP of Business Development for ai-one.
About Arquiware DSC (Brazil), Arquiware is one of Brazil’s leading software companies specializing in application development using natural language processing (NLP) and text mining. Arquiware builds custom applications for numerous enterprise clients and sells commercial off-the-shelf products for sentiment analysis and text extraction. SentimentWare provides sentiment analysis of social networks using the Radian6 API. TopicExtractWare is a SaaS that summarizes the meaning of any corpus of text by distilling information into tag clouds. Visit Arquiware’s free sentiment analysis of Twitter feeds to determine the best samba school in Carnival.
Contact: Luis Lima Phone +55-11-233-82742, email: lglima (at) arquiware.com.br web: http://www.arquiware.com.br
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Then you might have IBM’s Watson helping you. So, maybe Star Trek’s talking computer is not so far off anymore, with Watson. IBM is looking to shop the technology around to industries like retail and customer service. Read more on Hemispheres Magazine.
DotNet Tech plans to use new machine learning SDK to bring advanced analysis of unstructured data into Crystal Reports services.
La JollaCA| Zurich| Berlin– Crystal Reports is about to get a lot smarter. Brian Bischof, widely regarded as the leading authority on Crystal Reports, just signed a deal to become an IT Services Consulting Partner with ai-one inc. The deal will give Bischof’s company, DotNet Tech, access to ai-one’s Topic-Mapper SDK to develop custom reporting tools that use artificial intelligence to report on unstructured data.
Crystal Reports, owned by SAP, is one of the most popular tools to create reports using information stored in databases. One of the biggest problems facing IT departments is reporting on data that is not easily categorized – such as feeds of text from the internet and social media.
ai-one’s Topic-Mapper enables Crystal Reports to read and ingest text in much the same was a human. This is the first deal that enables a consulting firm to build artificial intelligence into a common reporting tool.
“Gone are the days of trying to work around unstructured data,” said Bischof, “Now we can use ai-one’s Topic-Mapper to learn the inherent structure within any corpus. Now we can process and include everything from Twitter feeds and Facebook postings into Crystal Reports using Microsoft’s Visual Studio.
Olin Hyde, VP of Business Development added “I’ve known Brian for a long time. He is a fantastic, visionary developer. I can’t wait to see what he does with Topic-Mapper combined with Crystal Reports and Visual Studio.”
About DotNet Tech, Inc., Led by founder, Brian Bischof, CPA is a systems consulting firm specializing in the development of advanced web-based applications using Microsoft’s .NET suite of development tools. Bischof is also the best-selling author of Crystal Reports books. Clients include University of California San Diego and more than 10,000 subscribers to www.CrystalReportsBook.com.
Contact: Brian Bischof. Phone 1-502-417-3681, email: public@bischofsystems.com web: www.dotnettech.com
About ai-one inc., ai-one provides technologies that enable programmers to build artificial intelligence into software programs. Based inSan Diego with offices inZurich andBerlin, ai-one’s “biologically inspired intelligence” is a virtual brain that learns without human intervention. Technically described as an adaptive holosemantic data space with semiotic capabilities, ai-one’s approach provides more accurate answers than competing technologies. The Topic-Mapper™ SDK for text enables developers to create intelligent applications that deliver better sense-making capabilities for semantic discovery, lightweight ontologies, knowledge collaboration, sentiment analysis, artificial intelligence and data mining.
Contact: Olin Hyde, Phone: 1-858-381-5897, email: oh@ai-one.com, web: www.ai-one.com
Are you in a meeting? Your phone will automatically switch to mute. This is Intel’s vision of coming devices. Small always-on gadgets enhanced with low power sensors could act more as your personal assistant, anticipating your needs and wishes. Context aware computing is to make computers (and gadgets) more in tune with us, the users – that they can sense the environment and react accordingly. How will your phone be your personal assistant? The magazine pcmag.com has an in-depth article about it or head over to gartner.com for the special report.
Watch Shane Legg talk about universal measures of intelligence. Shane LeggShane is a researcher exploring theoretical models for artificial general intelligence. You can follow his blog or on twitter.
Shane Legg at The Singularity Summit 2010 — Universal measures of intelligence from Singularity Institute on Vimeo.
Walter Diggelmann, CEO, will talk about the highlights of SemTech 2011. Michael Krause, CEO of Brainup AG will introduce the product Brainup, that is based upon the LWO of ai-one.
When: Thursday July 7, 2011 18:00
Price: USD 10.00 per person
Where: Uni Zurich, Institut für Bankenwesen, Plattenstrasse 32 Seminarraum 4, Zurich
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Do you know the magical number seven? Actually it is seven, plus or minus two (7±2), that is the limit on our capacity for processing information. Now, the number has shrunk to four, a new study finds. The researchers investigated the neural basis of this capacity limitation in monkeys performing the same test used to explore working memory in humans. They found that that the monkeys (and by extension humans) do not have a capacity of four objects, but of two in each hemisphere. Figuring out how the brain handles objects is important because working memory ability reflects the cognitive power that is measured by IQ scores, or the ability to learn a second language (via discovermagazine.com).