I’ve upgraded my wordpress install and reskinned the website, and as you can see I need to make some new title bars to give the blog the character and style it deserves. The theme I am using (Atahualpa) is just incredible, and it will let me cycle through title images. I want to generate a [...]
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Cory Doctorow gave the best speech hands down at the Singularity Summit a few years ago. But he isn’t really talking about the singularity; its pretty clear he just sees it as a beacon that attracts the similarly technologically inclined, perhaps as a means to form an interest group that takes digital rights seriously. [...] Discussing the singularity is often confusing because it makes claims about both technology and artificial intelligence, and its hard to see how the two fit together. In fact, some philosophers have argued that technology is entirely irrelevant to studying the mind using the techniques of artificial intelligence. The idea is that cognitive science is medium [...] From Chaos filter helps robots make sense of the world The Oxford group’s FabMap software tackles those problems by having a robot assign a visual “vocabulary” of up to a thousand individual “words” for each scene, every two seconds. The “words” describe particular objects in a scene, for example a bicycle seat, and the software learns to [...] or the brain, for that matter. In this case, the sensible, anti-pseudoscience guy has the wrong position, for the same reason, as the other wrong person. 5 points extra credit for listing each scientific, theoretical, conceptual, or practical confusion the motivates this discussion. This is sort of interesting: New Kindle Audio Feature causes a stir (WSJ) Kindle 2 is smaller than the first version of the product.The new device also features a five-way navigation element, faster wireless service for downloading books and the ability to wirelessly sync between Kindles and cellphones. Some publishers and agents expressed concern over a new, experimental [...] This is our future. Robot watch via Dvice |
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