AI Facts

The four ghosts in Pac-Man are programmed to act differently: red chases you, pink just tries to position itself in a set way, blue tries to ambush you and orange is random.

Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.

IBM's Watson computer has 90 processors, 2,880 cores, 11,200 threads, 16 terabytes of RAM, and 4TB worth of data on its hard drive.

Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page have long envisioned Google evolving into artificial intelligence itself. In 2010, they launched Google X (now simply 'X'), a secretive research lab dedicated to developing 'moonshot' technologies including AI, self-driving cars, and internet-beaming balloons.

The Nazca Lines in Peru are one of the world's great ancient mysteries. Researchers spent nearly a century mapping 430 carved figures in the desert. Yamagata University asked IBM to build an AI trained on aerial imagery. In just six months, AI found 303 new figures - nearly doubling what a century of fieldwork found.