Global Computer Grid to support UK develop Next Generation Search Engine
Massive global computer grid to analyse the unprecedented amounts of data generated by the Large Hadron Collider [LHC], the world’s biggest scientific experiment, is being utilised by two high tech start-up companies from Cambridge.
Imense Ltd is building the next generation of image search, that make retrieval of images even easier and more powerful than any existing search for images on the Internet. iLexIR Ltd is focussing on natural language processing, aimed at identifying relevant information, as opposed to just looking at individual words in a document.
These two Cambridgeshire companies, Imense Ltd and iLexIR Ltd have created a joint venture, Camtology, to use their individual expertise and products together to search both text and images online.
Both Imense and iLexIR are using GridPP to test and enhance their software. Funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), GridPP was built to be able to handle and analyse the UK's share of the petabytes (one petabyte is one quadrillion bytes) of data that will be generated by the LHC annually, requiring huge data storage and processing capabilities.
With the aim of becoming the ‘Google’ of image searching, Imense has developed a search engine that will make sense of the huge numbers of pictures on the World Wide Web. iLexIR Ltd, is focussing on natural language processing. The use of natural language will help with both interpreting the query and also, crucially, with interpreting the pages with the potential answers. iLexIR is using the Grid to process huge amounts of text in documents, aiming at finding relevant information as opposed to just looking at individual words.
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Only five per cent more to pass the Touring Test:
AI gets a step closer
From
a conversation with Jabberwacky.
Artificial intelligence came another step closer to reality after a computer came within five per cent of passing the Turing Test which evaluates a system's ability to demonstrate intelligence. No machine has yet managed to deceive the 30 per cent of interrogators required to pass the Turing Test.
However, at the annual Loebner Prize competition at the University of Reading, one system dubbed Elbot, managed the most successful score yet, fooling 25 per cent of the judges.
In this year's test, five computer systems were pitted against five judges who were each given five minutes of unrestricted conversation through a terminal to decide which of the entities they were talking to was a human and which was a machine.
The Loebner Prize was created by American businessman Hugh Loebner in 1990 together with the Cambridge Centre for Behavioural Studies, and is an annual competition offering a grand prize of $100,000 (£58,000) and a solid gold medal to the first machine to crack the Turing Test.
The Turing test is for what is known as Artificial Conversational Entities or ACEs. The six ACEs Alice, Brother Jerome, Elbot, Eugene Goostman, Jabberwacky, and Ultra Hal attempted to pass the Turing test and win the Loebner Prize by convincing at least four out of twelve judges that they are human.
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