Humanoid robots, passing the Turing test, unsupervised learning, and AI’s used to fight terrorism and a few of the topics in AI, robotics, and intelligence covered in the Forbes special section written by 22 experts.

Remember how new research shows that intelligence is strongly influenced by the quality of the brain’s axons (see Is Intelligence Inheritable?)? Interestingly, a team of Dutch scientist did not find a correlation between the total number of connection in a person’s brain network and their IQ, but that the most efficiently wired brains tend to belong to the most intelligent people.

Looks like intelligence might be inheritable after all..What do you think?

(via newscientist.com)

Watch the lecture of Dr. Elena Plante, Professor and Head of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences at the University of Arizona.

The ability of the human brain to think and communicate one’s thoughts is fundamental to our experience. For centuries, our ability to understand how human thought is represented and communicated had to be inferred from observing behavior following brain damage. The recent advent of new tools for noninvasive study of the normal brain has revolutionized our understanding of brain function, allowing us for the first time to visualize human thought. And we are only just beginning. 

(via YouTube) 

Remember the Blue Brain or the FACETS project? The Intelligence Realm project aims to reverse engineer the brain in order to build a large scale artificial intelligence system. The project uses a distributed computing solution akin to SETI@home. 

(via singularityhub.com)