Past proposals to solve this problem have included artificial intelligence systems to prevent collisions between air traffic.

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He has been thinking about the problem of learning for over three decades, starting with courses in problem solving that he taught at the University of California, Irvine, and then with artificial intelligence systems that Xerox built for the Army to better troubleshoot broken electronics.

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But some critics say the information artificial intelligence (AI) systems draw on is flawed.

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The system was jointly designed and developed by the Applied Artificial Intelligence Group and the Systems Intelligence Laboratory - both based at Carlos III University in Madrid (UC3M).

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Nowhere does it discuss how you get from artificial general intelligence to the ability to model complex systems.

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Ever since age 14, the 65-year-old inventor of everything from music synthesizers to speech recognition systems has aimed to create a true artificial intelligence, even going so far as to predict that machines would match human intelligence by 2029.

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Led by artificial-intelligence expert David Waltz, CCLS has created a clutch of compelling smart-grid systems for Con Edison over the past five or six years.

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