Some well-meaning scientist-geeks create an artificial intelligence, and set it loose to see how it learns and behaves. Next thing we know, he's taken over ...

The multi-robot approach to artificial intelligence is a relatively new one, and has developed from studies of the swarm behaviour of insects such as ants.

But how was he caught? The answer is that the complicated financial transactions he made in an attempt to disguise his spending on prostitutes were flagged by fraud detection software that banks now use routinely to detect money laundering and other financial crimes. In a news report on NPR this morning, reporter Adam Davidson interviewed a representative from Actimize, ...

Many online PHR firms share information with data-mining companies, which then sell it to insurers and other interested parties...

... known as the Total Information Awareness project, the National Security Agency's data mining has essentially reproduced the capabilities of the project.

However, for a computer loaded with machine-learning technology, mastering a complex task after observing it just once might be possible.

"In 2006, he left his job at IBM to explore the idea of starting a PhD in machine learning, a field in which he has no formal training...

... counter-terror data mining is being used to suggest high-level strategies for dealing with major terrorist organizations.

That's why researchers from the Artificial Intelligence Lab at the University of Arizona have developed a set of automated tools to collect and analyze ...

When a law firm gets hit with a discovery request of millions of files, its CTO takes the case