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Bookmark What Happens When You Use a Visual Search Algorithm On Your Body…
One day artificial intelligence might well identify any object that passes in front of its sensors, and with far greater depth and accuracy than humans. For now, we have smartphone apps…

January 9 2015, 2:46am | 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
Bookmark Brazil begins laying its own Internet cables to avoid U.S. surveillance -…
There's a new wrinkle in Brazil's plan to build a $185 million undersea fiber-optic cable that would connect it to Portugal and help the country avoid surveillance by U.S. intelligence authorities, reports Bloomberg: The…

November 22 2014, 5:23am | Comments
Bookmark David Deutsch – On Artificial Intelligence
It is uncontroversial that the human brain has capabilities that are, in some respects, far superior to those of all other known objects in the cosmos.

September 19 2014, 7:50am | Comments
Bookmark Why artificial intelligence is the future of religion - Salon.com
There are places you never expect to be in life.

September 15 2014, 3:04pm | Comments
Bookmark Wild Systems « NextNature.net
Steven Levy writes in Wired on the unexpected turn of the Artificial Intelligence revolution: rather than whole artificial minds, it consists of a rich bestiary of digital fauna, which few would…

September 8 2014, 5:11pm | Comments
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August 28 2014, 1:42am | Comments
Bookmark 'A Perfect and Beautiful Machine': What Darwin's Theory of Evolution Reveals About…
Charles Darwin and Alan Turing, in their different ways, both homed in on the same idea: the existence of competence without comprehension. Francis Crick and James Watson closed their epoch-making paper…

July 29 2014, 3:06am | Comments
Bookmark The first conscious machines will probably be on Wall Street | The…
We must consider the possibility that intelligence, creativity and even consciousness are purely functions of the material world, with human beings as a peculiar kind of computer.

July 14 2014, 1:10am | Comments
Bookmark The first conscious machines will probably be on Wall Street | The…
We must consider the possibility that intelligence, creativity and even consciousness are purely functions of the material world, with human beings as a peculiar kind of computer.

July 8 2014, 3:15am | 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.

June 8 2014, 10:11am | Comments
Bookmark Bostrom at Moogfest: Super intelligence is likely
Humans have beat the odds over 400,000 years surviving climate change, super volcanoes and the worst that Mother Nature could throw at us. Technology has always helped us along the way.…

May 1 2014, 1:39pm | Comments
Bookmark Why Her Will Dominate UI Design Even More Than Minority Report |…
A few weeks into the making of Her, Spike Jonze’s new flick about romance in the age of artificial intelligence, the director had something of a breakthrough.

January 16 2014, 3:06pm | Comments
Bookmark A.I. Has Grown Up and Left Home - Issue 8: Home -…
The history of Artificial Intelligence,” said my computer science professor on the first day of class, “is a history of failure.” This harsh judgment summed up 50 years of trying to…

January 5 2014, 8:20am | Comments
Bookmark Entering Posthumanism: Ihab Hassan and Neil Badmington | Simulation Space
In “Prometheus as Performer: Toward a Posthumanist Culture?” Ihab Hassan uses the metaphor of the mythological Prometheus to frame his discussion on posthumanism and positions him as a trickster with a…

December 11 2013, 3:42pm | Comments
Portfolio An Ontology of Everything on the Face of the Earth

December 9 2013, 10:34am | Comments
Bookmark Google’s Earth
“I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell…

November 9 2013, 4:02am | Comments
Bookmark Paul Allen and the Machines: Teaching the next generation of artificial intelligence…
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has been pondering artificial intelligence since he was a kid. In the late '60s, eerily intelligent computers were everywhere, whether it was 2001's HAL or Star Trek's…

October 28 2013, 8:37am | Comments
Bookmark The Turing Normalizing Machine | An experiment in machine learning & algorithmic…
In the 1930s British Mathematician Alan Turing studied normal numbers. During World War 2 he cracked the Nazi Enigma code, and then laid the foundations for computing and artificial intelligence. In…

May 19 2013, 5:08pm | Comments
Bookmark "Biological Intelligence is a Fleeting Phase in the Evolution of the Universe"…
Before the year 2020, scientists are expected to launch intelligent space robots that will venture out to explore the universe for us. "Robotic exploration probably will always be the trail blazer…

March 8 2013, 3:55am | Comments
Bookmark The Fallacy of Dumb Superintelligence
This is what a New Yorker article has to say on the subject of “Moral Machines”: “An all-powerful computer that was programmed to maximize human pleasure, for example, might consign us…

December 14 2012, 3:03am | Comments
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HUMANS AND INTELLIGENT MACHINES : CO-EVOLUTION, FUSION OR REPLACEMENT?

December 14 2012, 3:02am | 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
Bookmark Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing
For the most part, the biological metaphor has long been just that — a simplifying analogy rather than a blueprint for how to do computing. Engineering, not biology, guided the pursuit…

August 8 2012, 2:44am | Comments
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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 Is SETI at risk of downloading a malicious virus from outer space?
We take it for granted that the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) is a safe endeavor. Seriously, what could possibly go wrong with passively searching for interstellar radio signals? Unfortunately, the…

July 10 2012, 2:55am | Comments
Bookmark I Like to Build Alien Artifacts
"How does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will & human life?" Can cells become little computers? And how does technological progress challenge our ideas about free will, intelligence, and…

July 10 2012, 2:50am | Comments
Bookmark The Manifest Destiny of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence began with an ambitious research agenda: To endow machines with some of the traits we value most highly in ourselves—the faculty of reason, skill in solving problems, creativity, the…

July 10 2012, 2:48am | Comments
Bookmark Why Aren't We Reading Turing?
It's a testament to Turing's fascination with nearly everything that 76 years since his first major paper, there's still so much to write about his work. Expect this week to offer…

June 27 2012, 3:20pm | Comments
Bookmark Obama Ordered Wave of Cyberattacks Against Iran
Mr. Obama decided to accelerate the attacks — begun in the Bush administration and code-named Olympic Games — even after an element of the program accidentally became public in the summer…

June 2 2012, 9:39am | Comments
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Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test

April 14 2012, 8:37am | Comments

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