Researchers have analysed how human brains respond to visual information as they move around to improve how robots navigate and avoid obstacles.

View how the robot uses human mind tricks to navigate (NewsScientist).

Contrary to long standing dogma, new research has shown, that our brain is rather an “inference machine” than a “filtering machine”. The brain - the “inference machine” tries to discover patterns within data to make predictions about the outside world.

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Researchers have created a robot that shows tendencies to mimic biological evolution with the help of a “brain” that automatically grows in size and complexity.

The robot is controlled by a neural network software that mimics the brain’s learning process. The “brain” assigns new clusters of “neurons” to adapt to new additions to its body.

However, some scientists remain unconvinced: Just adding more neurons to the brain as things change is not enough. The entire neural structure must also to adapt.

(via NewScientist)

Application of Artificial Intelligence has changed from narrow, carefully defined domains into complex real world situation. Which means, one of the required abilities of the new AI systems is that they can reason about themselves and their world; or that they can deal with uncertainty and incomplete information.

Read how the new AI systems have the ability to adapt and improve with experience (computerworld.com).