War evolves. Will the conflicts of the future be like bloodless chess games handled from a keyboard? Will the battles wage drones and remotely operated robots?
On the occasion of its centenary, IBM presented Watson in 2011, an artificial intelligence computer system capable of answering questions asked in natural language. It was named after the founder and first president of IBM, Thomas J. Watson. Now, the agency DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), which hosted the development of Watson, has released a free and open source version of this supercomputer: “Deep Dive”.
A team of biomedical engineers from Washington University in St. Louis (USA) has created the fastest 2D camera in the world, managing to capture up to 100,000 million frames per second. This technological milestone has been collected by the journal Nature.
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU for its acronym in English) has just released the ranking of countries according to its "development index" of telecommunications and information technologies. The podium is for Denmark, Korea and Sweden. In what position is Spain? What is the first country in Latin America?
How does artificial intelligence compare to human? Currently - and for 65 years - the method used by scientists to evaluate and define whether artificial intelligence is capable of being compared with that of humans is the Turing test (in honor of the scientist Alan Turing). Now, a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), Mark Riedl, has put on the table a new way to carry out this evaluation.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
