Some research says customers usually cannot tell when they are being served by a voice-enabled computer with artificial intelligence.

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Artificial intelligence as a branch of computer science enjoyed a surge of interest and attention in the mid-1980s and there was a corresponding surge of medical applications.

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Today, Katz works at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is the principal research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.

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He also invented a test for artificial intelligence, which is still used in computer science.

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Rodney Brooks, Rethink Robotics founder and former director of the MIT Computer and Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, said he hoped Baxter represented a "new concept in manufacturing".

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S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, specializing in artificial intelligence.

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When the Stanford computer science professor offered a graduate-level course on artificial intelligence for free online last year, 160, 000 people from 190 different countries signed up.

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Fully sentient robots like Kit are still a ways off, but computer programmers are starting to make serious progress in the horrendously complex art of artificial intelligence.

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