Tag Archives: AI
links for 2010-03-24: vintage Marvin Minsky
Why People Think Computers Can't Marvin Minsky's 1982 article. In txt format! Read it like it's 1982! (tags: ai programming philosophy technology Marvin-Minsky)
links for 2007-09-29: Ridley Scott, USB guitar, Go
Q&A: Ridley Scott Has Finally Created the Blade Runner He Always Imagined Most interesting Blade Runner -related interview I’ve seen in a good long while. (tags: scifi movies design urban-environment future) How to Build a USB Guitar detailed and well-documented … more…
links for 2007-07-25: crowdsourcing, Bukowski, HTML colours
For Certain Tasks, the Cortex Still Beats the CPU tapping online gamers for pattern recognition, aesthetic appreciation, meta-information tasks (tags: crowdsourcing AI games) Peanuts, by Charles Bukowski written, that is, is the manner of… (tags: humor bukowski peanuts literature) Color … more…
radical engine design – Google Search
Google seems to like this blog with an ardour that is verging on creepy: I just followed a referral back — someone had arrived from there on a search for radical engine design. The post in question Radical, efficient new … more…
If TiVo Thinks You Are Gay
WSJ.com – If TiVo Thinks You Are Gay, Here’s How to Set It Straight Call me naive, but somehow it never occurred to me that profiling in the software that lurks inside TiVO, Amazon and the like would make assumptions … more…
“A bit negative is a terrible thing to waste”
Two instances of the ALICE chatbot set up to talk to each other. Predictably, the conversation runs into the ground pretty quickly, but the early stages, in which they argue about which should download a copy of the other, is … more…
Automatic blogging
[blog drone] This is really quite scary. Michal Zalewski, who is clearly a very twisted individual, has written this blogging bot, which will spew out long and passionate journal / blog entries when provided with a seed phrase. He recommends … more…
Stanislaw Lem – How the World Was Saved
Stanislaw Lem – How the World Was Saved (a fragment of The Cyberiad One day Trurl the constructor put together a machine that could create anything starting with n. When it was ready, he tried it out, ordering it to … more…
When Machines Outsmart Humans
When Machines Outsmart Humans Nick Bostrom weighs up the likelihood of human-level artificial intelligence being developed within the next half century. This piece concentrates pretty much on the brain-in-a-box model of AI, which is to say, a conception of AI … more…