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Bookmark Outing A.I.: Beyond the Turing Test - NYTimes.com
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) is having a moment, albeit one marked by crucial ambiguities. Cognoscenti including Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, among others, have recently weighed in on its potential…

February 23 2015, 7:45am | Comments
Bookmark Robopoetics: The Complete Operator's Manual - The Awl
Here’s a game: which of these poems was written by a human, and which by a computer? Answer: the first one is a computer, the second one is Gertrude Stein. You…

April 2 2014, 5:27pm | Comments
Bookmark Steven Poole – On algorithms
In central London this spring, eight of the world’s greatest minds performed on a dimly lit stage in a wood-panelled theatre. An audience of hundreds watched in hushed reverence.

March 18 2014, 12:44pm | Comments
Bookmark The Algorithm Economy: Inside the Formulas of Facebook and Amazon - Atlantic…
It used to be simpler. You woke up, and there was one newspaper you could read. It printed on pulp and delivered to your driveway. You got in your car, and…

March 18 2014, 12:44pm | Comments
Tumblr Turing Collages

May 4 2013, 8:55am | Comments
Portfolio Binary Nomination

July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments
Ask Metafilter On rituals and algorithms What is the relationship between the ritual and the algorithm? Are all rituals algorithmic? I'm interested in any papers or books/chapters written about this. I'm writing about Google's search algorithm at the moment, and I can't help get this ritual thing out of…

July 17 2012, 8:10am | Comments
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Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders

April 13 2012, 7:30am | Comments
Bookmark Roar so wildly: Spam, technology and language
This is the raw text output of a chat session with a bot I modified to act as an interlocutor. I use our conversation, which revolves around the history of spam,…

February 16 2012, 5:20am | Comments
Bookmark I, for One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords
In case you haven’t heard, the newest champion of "Jeopardy!," the popular TV game show, is a computer. Watson, an enormous computer developed by researchers at IBM, was pitted against the…

February 19 2011, 5:15pm | Comments
Bookmark Understanding Pac-Man Ghost Behavior
Pac-Man is one of the most iconic video games of all time, and most people (even non-gamers) have at least a passing familiarity with it. The purpose of the game is…

December 5 2010, 4:10am | Comments
Bookmark How Google’s Algorithm Rules the Web
The story of Google’s algorithm begins with PageRank, the system invented in 1997 by cofounder Larry Page while he was a grad student at Stanford. Page’s now legendary insight was to…

March 1 2010, 3:56am | Comments

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