Watson beats humans at own game!

Watson  super computer designed by IBM has defeated humans at their own game. The super computer specifically for questions and answers has beaten champions of Jeapardy moving computers one step closer to the ever chased true artificial intelligence. Over a three day tournament the human contestants proven no match for Watson to the excitement of it's engineers.

IBM engineers aim to implement the technology into automated bank and airleines phone services. It took 25 IBM scientists 4 years to create!

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AI apple detection for self service checkouts

Toshiba's research centre has developed Artificial Intelligence software that with the use of web cams can detect which type of apple is being scanned at a supermarket checkout.

Usually customers must search through on screen lists to select the apple type, but toshiba's software makes for a much speedier process.

An exciting new development that could lead to similar detection methods across a range of applications.

see full article at New Sceientist: Checkout AI uses camera to tell your apples apart