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Artificial stupidity - Salon.com
dir.salon.com/story/tech/feature/2003/02/26/loebner_part_one/index.html, posted 2008 by peter in ai msm opinion people science
All Hugh Loebner wanted to do was become world famous, eliminate all human toil, and get laid a lot. And he was willing to put up lots of good money to do so. He's a generous, fun-loving soul who likes to laugh, especially at himself. So why does everybody dislike him so much? Why does everybody give him such a hard time?
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Introduction to Numenta Technology
www.numenta.com/about-numenta/numenta-technology.php, posted 2008 by peter in ai science software statistics toread
This Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM) technology has the potential to allow computers to solve problems that are currently easily solved for humans but difficult or impossible to solve for machines.
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Word/Logic Bank to Help Build 'Thinking' Machines
www.scienceblog.com/cms/wordlogic-bank-help-build-%E2%80%98thinking%E2%80%99-machines-16567.html, posted 2008 by peter in ai nlp science toread
Information scientists announced an agreement last month on a “concept bank” programmers could use to build thinking machines that reason about complex problems at the frontiers of knowledge—from advanced manufacturing to biomedicine.
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He Wrote 200,000 Books (but Computers Did Some of the Work)
www.nytimes.com/2008/04/14/business/media/14link.html?ex=1365825600, posted 2008 by peter in ai business msm nlp science
But these are not conventional books, and it is perhaps more accurate to call Mr. Parker a compiler than an author. Mr. Parker has developed computer algorithms that collect publicly available information on a subject and turn the results into books.
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Jester 4.0: Jokes for Your Sense of Humor
eigentaste.berkeley.edu/user/index.php, posted 2008 by peter in ai humor science
Jester uses a collaborative filtering algorithm called Eigentaste to recommend jokes to you based on your ratings of previous jokes.
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A Psychoanalytical Conversation Robot Responds to Spam
www.dearspamalyzer.com/, posted 2008 by peter in ai humor satire spam
The Spamalyzer is a computer program, based on the classic Eliza psychoanalyst conversation robot, that treats incoming spam as cries for help and publishes her responses in this advice column.
BookLamp.org is a system for matching readers to books through an analysis of writing styles, similar to the way that Pandora.com matches music lovers to new music.
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AI researchers think 'Rascals' can pass Turing test
www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206903246, posted 2008 by peter in ai science
RPI is aiming to pass AI's final exam this fall, by pairing the most powerful university-based supercomputing system in the world with a new multimedia group designing a holodeck, a la Star Trek.
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Researchers Create Character With Reasoning Abilities Of A Child
www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/100231.php, posted 2008 by peter in ai game multiplayer science
At a recent conference on artificial intelligence, the researchers unveiled the "embodiment" of their success to date: "Eddie," a 4-year-old child in Second Life who can reason about his own beliefs to draw conclusions in a manner that matches human child
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Out of the Blue
www.seedmagazine.com/news/2008/03/out_of_the_blue.php?page=all, posted 2008 by peter in ai science
The behavior of the computer replicates, with shocking precision, the cellular events unfolding inside a mind. "This is the first model of the brain that has been built from the bottom-up," says Henry Markram, a neuroscientist at Ecole Polytechnique Féd
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