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MOTHER artificial intelligence forces nerds to do the chores… or else
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:13:21 -0800
If you’ve ever been inside a dormitory full of computer science undergraduates, you know what horrors come of young men free of responsibility. To help combat the lack of homemaking skills in nerds everywhere, a group of them banded together to create MOTHER, a combination of home automation, basic artificial intelligence and gentle nagging designed [...]
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Pixar Engineers Leave to Build Real World Living Toys
Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:52:32 -0800
Teddy Ruxpin, meet Siri. Imagine a children's toy designed by the people behind the Toy Story and Finding Nemo movies but connected to the web and chock full of artificial intelligence. Then add in visual tracking, speech recognition and massive network scalability. It appears that's what San Francisco startup ToyTalk is building, based on conversations and information available online. The ...
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The singularity: Mind-blowing benefits of merging human brains and computers
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 20:36:32 -0800
Last week science took the first step towards merging human brains and computers into one giant intelligence. It could bring mind-blowing benefits
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'The Fear Index' Trades In Thrills
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:33:33 -0800
Dr. Alex Hoffman is a billionaire genius who invented a form of artificial intelligence that predicts movements in the financial markets. When the security of his mansion is breached, though, he is thrown into a web of paranoia and violence.
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An alternate Web
Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:11:38 -0800
For the uninitiated, the idea of a ‘Semantic Web' involves computers being “capable of analysing all the data on the Web – the content, links, transactions between people and computers.” This idea was laid down by one of the founding fathers of the Internet and worked on by researchers later.
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PHOTOS: An amazing success story called Facebook
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:53:50 -0800
From a Harvard dorm room to becoming one of the world's biggest internet success stories, it has been an incredible journey for Facebook.
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Divergent Views On Communicating With Machines
Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:33:26 -0800
Frank Tobe, Editor, The Robot Report More products are being labeled as "smart," but they won't be any easier to use unless we develop better methods of communicating with them. Topics: Design and Development Manufacturing Technology Electrical and Electronics
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Robert Harris, In 'Fear' of a Financial Frankenstein
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 06:21:12 -0800
Robert Harris' new novel explores the scary possibilities of the computerized world we have created for ourselves.
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The shrinking human factor in a machine-to-machine economy
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:46:52 -0800
As computers get smarter and create work processes with no need for people, the threat emerges of a growing wasteland of jobs
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The dangers of Googling
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:43:22 -0800
Mary Shelley wrote ‘Frankenstein; or, the modern Prometheus’, as an allegory about technology and its ability to damage human society. She wrote in the midst of the Industrial Revolution, which caused the immiseration of large sections of the population of Britain.
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