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Bookmark Beyond humans, what other kinds of minds might be out there? |…
In 1984, the philosopher Aaron Sloman invited scholars to describe ‘the space of possible minds’. Sloman’s phrase alludes to the fact that human minds, in all their variety, are not the…

October 20 2016, 3:05am | Comments
Bookmark Turing Test success marks milestone in computing history
An historic milestone in artificial intelligence set by Alan Turing - the father of modern computer science - has been achieved at an event organised by the University of Reading.

April 29 2015, 4:19pm | Comments
Bookmark Goodbye, Turing Test; Bring on the Turing Decathlon - Facts So Romantic…
How many researchers does it take to change a test of artificial intelligence? Sixty-five years ago, famed mathematician and WWII code-breaker Alan Turing unveiled the “Imitation Game,” a playful scenario designed to…

February 10 2015, 4:11am | Comments
Ask Metafilter Turing Machines and (Gothic) Horror I am interested in any writings connecting (Universal) Turing Machines and horror. The idea of computers being able to imitate the behaviour of anything speaks to me of the monsters and doppelgängers from the Gothic tradition onwards. Know any writings on this? Alan…

December 3 2014, 4:44am | Comments
Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments
Twitter Favourites
Meaning as gloss

November 14 2012, 4:39am | Comments
Portfolio Abject Materialities: An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

October 19 2012, 6:36am | Comments
Bookmark Computer glitch may have led to Deep Blue's historic win over chess…
Earlier this year, IBM celebrated the 15-year anniversary of its supercomputer Deep Blue beating chess champion Garry Kasparov. According to a new book, however, it may have been an accidental glitch…

September 29 2012, 7:09am | Comments
Bookmark Artificially intelligent game bots pass the Turing test on Turing's centenary
An artificially intelligent virtual gamer created by computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like…

September 29 2012, 4:28am | Comments
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Twitter Bots

September 18 2012, 6:18am | Comments
Portfolio Binary Nomination

July 19 2012, 9:32am | Comments
Bookmark The Great Pretender: Turing as a Philosopher of Imitation
In proposing the imitation game as a stand-in for another definition of thought or intelligence, Turing does more than deliver a clever logical flourish that helps him creatively answer a very…

July 19 2012, 8:20am | Comments
Bookmark Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing)
I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to…

October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments
Bookmark Similarities - a set on Flickr
The pairs of images in this "Similarities" set are similar visually in one way or another. They are presented without judgement as to the motives of their creators. The viewers of…

March 2 2011, 6:28am | Comments
Bookmark Journalism in the Age of Data: A Film
What bad writing has to do with war casualties and traffic over North America. It’s no secret we have a data visualization fetish, but that’s not just because we like looking…

September 30 2010, 4:19pm | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily On Seeing (an Imitation)

January 24 2010, 9:04pm | Comments

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