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The HIT Lab NZ at the Canterbury University (Christchurch, New Zealand) in collaboration with the Institute of Information Processing (Warsaw) has the following vacancy for a PhD student: Performance Indicators and Visualizations for Polish Science Project Description In many countries, quantifiable indicators are being used to assess the success of scientific organizations and individuals. The [...]
LEGO is sponsoring our ROILA project and today 20 Mindstorms NXT boxes and one cubic meter of LEGO Technic arrived (estimated value of 7000 EUR). I am not sure how I can keep our PhD students away from playing LEGO all day. :-)
We are happy to announce that the Robot Interaction Language (ROILA) website is now available at http://roila.org.
Alan Turing proposed a test for the intelligence of machines in 1950. Despite great efforts, not computer has passed this test so far. Each year, chat bots compete for the Loebner Prize, the first formal instantiation of a Turing Test. No contender was able to fool the jury yet. Major problems of the chat bots [...]