Herself’s Artificial Intelligence

Now that the phone in your pocket is a full computer with an always on internet connection life is about to change. In the same way that any algorithms can solve complex problems with many agents each of which is not so bright, so can lots of cell phone micro computers.

From the little bit of information Darpa has made public it looks like they are hoping to form a system, like the one in the Batman movie, that will allow them to locate a specific person or item of interest.

If you are interested in artificial intelligence, you should be learning how to write code for these mobile computers. for they are the future of the internet and artificial intelligence.

Your phone is about to become part of the smart swarm.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION AND OBJECTIVE: The Gandalf program is an advanced technology and development and demonstration program that is seeking solutions to the functions of radio frequency (RF) geolocation and emitter identification using specific emitter identification (SEI) for specific signals of interest. The ultimate goal of the Gandalf program is to enable a set of handheld devices to be utilized to perform RF geolocation and SEI on RF signals of interest to the Gandalf program. The specific goals and performance objectives associated with RF geolocation and SEI for the Gandalf system are classified. It is anticipated that DARPA-BAA-09-04 for the Gandalf Program will be released prior to the Industry Day.
When released, the BAA will be found on the FedBizOpps website,

http://www.fedbizopps.gov . . .
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The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation thinks religion is just a part of evolution. How totally fitting is it that those least likely to believe the theory of evolution because of religious beliefs do so because of evolution?

The reason this is here on the AI blog is because this was tested using sims. The code is open source. You can download a copy of “Evogod” and read the papers ‘Is Religion an Evolutionary Adaptation? for yourself.

If you are interesting in building sim worlds this this is a great place to start.

Path Intelligence has developed software to track pedestrians by analyzing their mobile phone signals. Monitoring units can be placed about a mall or store and the units fetch a unique signal from shoppers phones and track the shopper’s path.

Stores are provided with easy to use interfaces for the data, weather information, and SMS notification of trouble ( people in unauthorized areas or left packages ) to security personal.

Customers in shopping centres are having their every move tracked by a new type of surveillance that listens in on the whisperings of their mobile phones.

The technology can tell when people enter a shopping centre, what stores they visit, how long they remain there, and what route they take as they walked around.

The device cannot access personal details about a person’s identity or contacts, but privacy campaigners expressed concern about potential intrusion should the data fall into the wrong hands.

The surveillance mechanism works by monitoring the signals produced by mobile handsets and then locating the phone by triangulation – measuring the phone’s distance from three receivers.
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It has already been installed in two shopping centres, including Gunwharf Quays in Portsmouth, and three more centres will begin using it next month, Times Online has learnt. [ read more

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