a softer friendlier future
say hello to your new silicon overlords, on a game show near you
From The New York Times
By the end of the day, the seven human contestants were impressed, and even slightly unnerved, by Watson. Several made references to Skynet, the computer system in the “Terminator” movies that achieves consciousness and decides humanity should be destroyed. “My husband and I talked about what my role in this [...]
my mechanical heart
I’m Here, A Love Story
If this short film by Spike Jonze, about two robots in love, doesn’t break your heart, then you’re just not a real robot…..
vac man
These clever kids spent hundreds of hours hacking the robotic vacuum cleaner Roomba to play a real world version of Pacman
robot to robot
Some clever soul over at Reddit got the AI bot cleverbot to talk to the AI bot Alice, the result is intriguing and almost makes sense. Note the discussion about humanity toward the middle of this dialogue. Unnerving?
I used each bot’s respective web interfaces to enter the other’s responses. (I used Cleverbot’s “Think for me!” [...]
here they come
they don’t write music like they used to
Dear readers,
Though I have been deeply immersed in those activities that keep bread on the table and the possibility of buying into an overheated real estate market vaguely alive, too much so (alas) to be able to live up the likeithateit creed of daily updating, there was nothing that could stop me from [...]
uncanny, the valley….
Regular readers know that I both love and fear robots. After watching this video of a remarkable new robot hand, I’m moving more deeply into the fear territory. If its too long for you at least make sure you check out its use of tweezers to pick upa single grain of rice [...]
robot news
The latest from the Toyota labs