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Twitter Links Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test
“Two revolutionary advances in information technology may bring the Turing test out of retirement,” wrote Robert French, a cognitive scientist at the French National…

April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments
Twitter Links Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders
The differences, across a number of different brands of automated essay scoring software (AES) and essay types, were minute. “The results demonstrated that over…

April 13 2012, 7:30am | Comments
Twitter Links Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human
The world is entering an age of superabundant data. We’re spewing out masses of information: from credit card charges to consumer shopping patterns and…

April 4 2012, 1:42am | Comments
Link Ways Machines Can Hurt You
Wandering the LA Convention Center at WESTEC - the ultimate manufacturing show from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers… wandering the amazing tools, waterjets, 3D printers, CNCs, microCNCs, robot arms, welding…

March 28 2012, 3:48am | Comments
Link 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…

February 16 2012, 6:20am | Comments
Link 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…

October 31 2011, 6:53am | Comments
Twitter Links On Victor Tausk's 'The Influencing Machine'
Influencing Machines are described by their troubled inventors as complex structures, constructed of “boxes, cranks, levers, wheels, buttons, wires, batteries and the like.” Sometimes…

October 25 2011, 3:21am | Comments
Link Darwin Among the Machines (Samuel Butler, 1863)
The views of machinery which we are thus feebly indicating will suggest the solution of one of the greatest and most mysterious questions of the day. We refer to the…

March 3 2011, 8:55am | Comments
Link The interface and the machine
Being that this conference is about public interfaces, it would be evidently meaningful to talk about interfaces, machines and humans. But instead of examining the present multifaceted overwhelming and immense…

January 10 2011, 4:53am | Comments
Link Awe and the Machine
By the twentieth century, some cynicism had crept into descriptions of the newest machines. Writing about the impact of radio on his rural Maine community, E. B. White observed, "One…

August 2 2010, 4:03am | Comments

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