Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Scaling Up Search for Analogies Could Be Key to Innovation

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AI, Crowdsourcing Can Identify Insights That Lead to Breakthroughs

Investment in research is at an all-time high, yet the rate of scientific breakthroughs isn't setting any records. To resolve this quandary, scientists are turning to artificial intelligence and crowdsourcing for help in identifying a key inspiration for innovation — the perfect analogy.

"Innovation by Design" Awards Recognize Several in HCII

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Several from Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute were honored by Fast Company in its annual Innovation by Design Awards. Two projects from the HCII were finalists and two more earned honorable mentions in 2018.

Crowd Workers, AI Make Conversational Agents Smarter

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Conversational agents such as Siri, Alexa and Cortana are great at giving you the weather, but flummoxed when asked for unusual information or follow-up questions. By adding humans to the loop, Carnegie Mellon University researchers have created a conversational agent that is tough to stump.

Kenneth Holstein

kjholste [at] cs.cmu.edu