Are there any RSS feed autodiscovery tools that output feed URL when given a site URL? I believe you could do this using the Yahoo! Pipes “Feed Auto-Discovery Module” [1]. Use the…
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What is the current status of systems which can answer questions framed from a given text article?
What is the current status of systems which can answer questions framed from a given text article? Question Generation (QG) [1] and Question Answering (QA) [2] are two different things. In terms…
Can a computer that is designed to fake self-awareness be as good as a computer that is truly self-aware?
Can a computer that is designed to fake self-awareness be as good as a computer that is truly self-aware? Think “smoke and mirrors”…. “Mind games” are a HUGE part of any Turing…
I want to create a custom chat bot for use with smart home software, but not from scratch. What’s the best method to do this?
I want to create a custom chat bot for use with smart home software, but not from scratch. What’s the best method to do this? In lieu of answering this question here,…
What are some of the best chatterbots?
What are some of the best chatterbots? Cleverbot.com [1] is arguably the most popular. The newly popular SimiSimi mobile app is perhaps a close second, particularly in Asia. Wikipedia contains both a…
How would a society benefit from an AI that passes the Turing test?
How would a society benefit from an AI that passes the Turing test? It is my belief that the Turing test is a “red herring”, which is not to say that society…
What types of applications would you like to see for the Google AR Glasses?
What types of applications would you like to see for the Google AR Glasses? Think #SecondLife … I would like to see avatars move back and forth between virtual worlds and augmented…
Is it possible to explain metaphors using discourse analysis frameworks, or only with cognitive linguistic frameworks?
Is it possible to explain metaphors using discourse analysis frameworks, or only with cognitive linguistic frameworks? If by “discourse analysis frameworks” [1] you are referring to “Metaphor Identification Procedure”, and by “cognitive…
What are the most popular frameworks used for creating natural language user interfaces?
What are the most popular frameworks used for creating natural language user interfaces? The term “natural language”, like the term “artificial intelligence”, is really non-specific, covering a wide range of sub-fields. Unfortunately,…
Is IBM’s Watson an Expert System?
Is IBM’s Watson an Expert System? Expert system implies to me rule-based AI. When I was bandying around the conventional wisdom that IBM Watson represented the triumph of the era of machine…