…then don’t act like a sheep. photo credit: russelljsmithSteve Steinberg’s new blog, called comma separated values, has an interesting entry about group think and the predictability of not only groups, but also individuals within those groups. Also known as crowd dynamics. Alas, many of the comments are concerns about “one’s personal [...]
10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers is an article over at the Developing Intelligence blog written by Chris Chatham - an excellent list of reasons Computers != Brains. Not to say all of these reasons are hurdles that can never be overcome in the pursuit of artificial intelligence, it just points out many [...]
Repliqa is now in Alpha. I got an invite a couple of days ago and have tried it out. It is invitation only for the moment, so head over there to request an invitation or read the Repliqa Blog to get the full story. They recently began tracking websites, so be [...]
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The Duster Drone is a concept that I have been fiddling around with in my mind for quite a while - in fact, for many years. Most people smile politely and shake their heads when I explain the idea, but no one seems to [...]
Introduction to the machine vs. man poker challenge at the AAAI conference:
You can find more information over at the Smart Machines blog.
Those who truly believe that machines will eventually push the human race into extinction may need to wait a bit longer before the computerized overlords rule. The Polaris poker playing program went into battle with a pro poker player at the AAAI 2007 conference and lost. AIs and other machines may hang their [...]
The AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) annual conference starts today. AI researchers get together to collaborate - discuss - learn about technologies that are helping to make machine work more like humans - a very difficult task. Humans are great at a whole host of capabilities that computers cannot even [...]
Note to self - keep checking up on Numenta - a company created by the same guy who started Palm - Jeff Hawkins. Numenta is working on hierarchical temporal memory (HTM) systems - pretty much the next generation of neural networks by virtue of attempting to more closely replicate how the brain learns.
No, that isn’t a typo in title - Repliqa is the name of a new service (not live yet) created by Mark Seremet. You can visit his blog The Fish, where he is describing the journey as he develops Repliqa. Mark is your standard serial entrepreneur - best know for starting Take Two [...]
I don’t want to beat these guys up too much, but I blundered onto the web site for Proteom Capital and I suddenly felt like I was thrust into a Philip K. Dick short-story. I love buzzwords - no doubt. I sprinkle them into the posts here and other places way too often. This is, [...]
The first blog entry is titled Making a difference, which I guess is exactly what Google would expect of “lots of world class Ph.D.s (and a few non-Ph.D.s)“. It is interesting that they made a distinction between engineers (”who do the real work”) and Ph.D.s. Golly, the blog was launched almost a month [...]
Look, there is no denying it – we love science fiction here at DeepMarket. Mind you, we are more than willing to allow for certain suspension of disbelief when it is required to make the story more interesting or even possible. For instance, most space related sci-fi has some type of faster than [...]
DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), for the second year in a row, is running the DARPA Grand Challenge on October 8th. The Grand Challenge is to develop an autonomous vehicle that can navigate tough terrain - in this case, a desert in Nevada. To win, the vehicle has to complete a [...]
As I was writing A peak at Natural Language Processing I excluded the “spoken language” component of NLP to simplify certain arguments surrounding this sub-field in AI. A couple hours later I remembered a discussion I had with a friend many years ago. He had been looking at new services via the web [...]
