The first supercomputers to approach and even surpass the processing power of the human brain are to be built by IBM, under a contract announced by the US Government.
Coming into its own within the past 10 years, AI research has drawn enormous benefit from parallel booms in networking, wireless communication, and the Internet.
Chris McKinstry, a computer scientist and an artificial intelligence expert, has embarked on a groundbreaking artificial intelligence project that aims to leverage the mind power of millions of Web surfers to teach a computer to approximate human thought.
Web users are being invited to help create the first model of human thought. By collecting "atoms of information" a Canadian scientist hopes to be able to teach a computer what it means to be human. Once created, the body of knowledge will be made available to other artificial intelligence researchers trying to make machines smarter or easier to interact with.