London Press Service reports on X1Recall

THE ability to design computers that can think for themselves sounds too unrealistic even for these fast-moving times in the world of technology. In fact, engineers have developed software that enables computers to analyse and progress from their mistakes. This is no blue-sky project done for some esoteric experiment. The world’s first self-learning, web-based software uses artificial intelligence in one very important and practical area - to help manufacturing companies eliminate waste and improve quality control in their production processes. The project - produced in the United Kingdom - is described by experts as “literally giving computers the power of thought and reason, and helping them to learn from their own experience”. Called X1 Recall, the system is the result of a research project undertaken by Dr Rajesh Ransing, a senior lecturer in the School of Engineering at Swansea University, Wales.

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