Chess Research
How Ed Tech Is Exploiting Students - The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education
In the late 1700s, a Hungarian inventor named Wolfgang von Kempelen debuted a machine he called "The Mechanical Turk." It was purported to be an automaton capable of playing chess, and during its reign it defeated opponents such as Napoleon Bonaparte ...
and more »
AI transcribes words users 'speak silently' - Digital Journal
Digital Journal
Digital Journal
The device forms part of a silent-computing system intended to allow the user undetectably pose and receive answers to difficult computational problems. In a test the researchers asked subjects to silently report opponents' moves in a chess game. The ...
MIT researchers develop tech to transcribe the words you're thinking - TechRepublic
BT.com
TechRepublic
They initially tested the software during a chess game, with the user silently verbalizing his opponents' moves and an AI algorithm responding with moves the user should make. The devices are constantly learning, correlating more neuromuscular signals ...
The mind-reading AlterEgo headset (almost) promises telepathy with AlexaYahoo News
all 3 news articles »
Researchers develop device that can 'hear' your internal voice - The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian
Kapur and team are currently working on collecting data to improve recognition and widen the number of words AlterEgo can detect. It can already be used to control a basic user interface such as the Roku streaming system, moving and selecting content ...
MIT's AlterEgo headset reads your face to see words you're only saying in your mind - ZDNet
ZDNet
ZDNet
MIT researchers have developed a headset that can identify words you think of but don't actually say, by reading signals the brain sends to the face and jaw during internal speech. The AlterEgo headset captures the neuromuscular signals that occur when ...
and more »
Global Chess Market 2018 – Official Staunton, The House of Staunton , ChessSUA, Yiwu Linsai - New Mexico Courier Express
New Mexico Courier Express
The report covered by MRS Research Group provides information that is gathered from different essential and optional assets. The information gathered was approved from the business investigator which makes the record a valuable for supervisors ...
MIT's 'mind-reading' device brings us closer to sending texts with our brains - TechRadar
TechRadar
TechRadar
Using your hands to press buttons on a screen is so 20th century. Thankfully, we're edging closer to a totally hands-free device with each month that passes. While most of the brain-computer interface devices that we've seen up until this point use EEG ...
On the origins of chess (1/5) - Chessbase News
In September 2017, in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sergio Negri, a researcher specialized in chess of Argentine origin, completed an epic treatise on the ...
15 questions about MIT's new mind-reading device - Quartz
Quartz
Quartz
Can I use this to trick people into thinking I'm really good at chess? Can I use this to trick people into thinking I'm really good at a foreign language I have never studied, by getting it to take my thoughts and transmit the translation through face ...
and more »
On Chess: The 169-year-old modern chess set - St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis Public Radio
A longtime chess fan and competitor, Jon Crumiller has amassed one of the greatest collections of antique chess sets in the world, which includes more than 600 sets originating from more than 40 countries. Crumillier is not only interested in acquiring ...
and more »
Chess: How Kabera bounced back to win Easter tournament - The New Times
The New Times
The New Times
In chess, just like in life, things do not always go as planned and it's a sea of ups and downs but it is all about how we weather the storm and bounce back, Candidate Master (CM) Godfrey Kabera said after winning the Easter Open Chess Classic ...
Dungeons and Dragons, Not Chess and Go: Why AI Needs Roleplay - Singularity Hub
Singularity Hub
Singularity Hub
Meanwhile, AI researchers know that it's super difficult to get a well-trained algorithm to apply its insights in even slightly different domains—something that we humans manage surprisingly well. Second, D&D reminds us that intelligence is embodied ...
MIT Researchers Have Created a Bizarre Headset That Lets You Communicate Without Speaking - ScienceAlert
New Atlas
ScienceAlert
Another was playing chess, in which the user would issue subvocal commands using the standard chess numbering system. For each application, they then applied a neural network to map particular neuromuscular signals to particular words. Once the basic ...
Silent headset let's users quietly commune with computersNew Atlas
all 4 news articles »
'Your move' – chess champion Le Nguyen - Daily Herald
Daily Herald
Daily Herald
In Vietnam, his coach would help him research his opponents. He would study his opponents opening moves and habits. He could prepare and use psychological tricks to help him. “Sometimes a player has an opening move that they play really well off of. If ...
Silent headset let's users quietly commune with computers - New Atlas
New Atlas
New Atlas
Advances in voice recognition technology have seen it become a more viable form of computer interface, but it's not necessarily a quieter one. To prevent the click-clacking of keyboards being replaced by noisy man-machine conversations, MIT researchers ...
Computer system transcribes words users “speak silently” - MIT News
MIT News
MIT News
In one of the researchers' experiments, for instance, subjects used the system to silently report opponents' moves in a chess game and just as silently receive computer-recommended responses. “The motivation for this was to build an IA device — an ...
Cryptocurrency in Focus: CHESS ChessCoin (CHESS) Touches $0.0042 - Coin Journal
Coin Journal
Tracking cryptocurrency market movement, we can see that CHESS ChessCoin (CHESS) has recently touched $0.0042. Following some historical information, we see that the cryptocurrency has changed -10.28%% over the last 24 hours, and moved -14.64%% over ...
and more »
Innovators in AI and more set to gather for FICO World 2018 - Auto Remarketing
Auto Remarketing
Auto Remarketing
Thrun is the CEO of Kitty Hawk, a personal airborne vehicle company, and co-founder and president of Udacity, an online private educational organization. He was a Google Fellow and vice president, and a research professor at Stanford University. Thrun ...
and more »
How Trump's Bad Moves Are Hurting Your Portfolio - Investment U
Investment U
Investment U
We had the world's highest corporate tax rate. Now we have one of the world's most competitive. That has incentivized U.S. multinationals to repatriate tens of billions in overseas profits. It will also attract foreign investment and give businesses ...
and more »
Artificial Intelligent Agents: Prerequisites for Rights and Dignity - CSS Resources (blog)
CSS Resources (blog)
CSS Resources (blog)
IBM's Deep Blue was a chess-playing computer that achieved remarkable success in 1997 when it defeated the world champion Gary Kasparov in 19 moves. Kasparov had never lost a match to a human in under 20 moves. He managed to beat Deep Blue in the next ...