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Stanford’s model helicopters teach themselves to fly

biz — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:40:37 +0000

Now this sounds to me like >narrow< ai, of a sort, but it is certainly generalizing, learning type behaviour. The helicopter monitors the activity of an expert helicopter pilot, and then, compensating for environmental differences (wind etc), performs the same maneuvers itself. Stanford computer scientists have developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic helicopters [...]

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The True Power of Users on User Run Sites

biz — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:22:02 +0000

Welcome to the world of community based, collaborative content. One of the big stories of 2006′s reiteration of the online landscape has been the development of business models leveraging user created content and communities. You create a site that allows others to upload and post their content, you share that with the world, throw in [...]

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Wheelchair Controlled by sub vocalized speech

biz — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:36:44 +0000

One step closer to mind reading – this wheel chair interprets sub-vocalized speech – in other words, your stream of internal self-talk, and turns it into movement. I can see how this would be useful. I can also see how thinking “that pillock on my left is really annoying me.” might turn you to face [...]

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“Digital Physics” – Your cognitive artifacts come to life.

biz — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:16:46 +0000

This interesting post discusses the user interface of this month’s new overpriced bauble from Apple (No, I’m not jealous – much.) Representational physics (Dubbed “Digital” Physics by the author) is a an ever more immersive part of the digital user interface. Part of this is certainly resulting in improved experience, but part of the drive [...]

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Convergence – ie ‘Our Inevitable Digital Future?’

biz — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 22:22:32 +0000

Nice quick summary of the current status quo of virtual/real world convergence, though I still think that people take ‘Second Life’ far too seriously, and the google earth/MS Earth tools aren’t showing the potential to have make any substantive changes to our existence yet. (No time to really comment right now, hopefully I will come [...]

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Look! Up in the sky! It’s Virtual Earth! (video)

biz — Sat, 07 Jul 2007 20:17:39 +0000

Following on from yesterday’s post (well, not really) is this TED video demonstrating the latest in virtual real reality processing. Something tells me that this isn’t going to be as good as the real thing. But, I sure if we wait a decade or so… Microsoft’s Stephen Lawler gives a whirlwind tour of Virtual Earth, [...]

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Face-Recognition Software now better than humans

biz — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 00:59:15 +0000

One of the fundamental hurdles that artificial intelligence has yet to overcome is in the realm of pattern matching. Neural networks in general and the human mind specifically are fabulous pattern matching machines. Neural networks work on a problem in parallel, and consequently are ideally suited to the process of quickly recognizing a match to [...]

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Technology assisted synesthesia

biz — Sun, 27 May 2007 05:17:30 +0000

We have known for hundreds of years that our sensory systems are very maleable – and can adapt to all sorts of input very rapidly. Investigating the inversion of the image on the retina, George Stratton developed a paid of “upside down glasses”, that flipped the image delivered to his eyes. After 4 days of [...]

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Brainstem surgery on a three year old

biz — Wed, 16 May 2007 22:49:22 +0000

This little girl is three years old, and receiving a brainstem implant. This is not a cochlear implant – according to the article, the auditory nerve was not functioning at all, so why bother with it – just plug straight into the brain. It was an operation that not only gave the three-year-old her place [...]

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Prenatal baby name search engine optimization

biz — Wed, 16 May 2007 17:54:48 +0000

If you are an online presence, having a high search ranking is a rather good thing. If you don’t show up at the top of the list, the chances you will be visited by a someone at a search declines logarithmically, which cuts you out of the running for whatever they are searching for before [...]

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Charles Stross: Shaping the future

biz — Tue, 15 May 2007 19:08:04 +0000

Science fiction writer Charlie Stross has given a lot more thought than most to the changes that we may experience in the next few tens of years. Ubiquitous GPS is going to a standard feature on most cell phones by the end of the year. We are nowhere near the level of information storage density [...]

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The Most Deadly Book in the World

biz — Sat, 12 May 2007 19:40:57 +0000

Too much information is bad for you. The evidence is slowly coming in, but my gut feeling is that it’s really, really bad for you. I very brief search of recent news (most of the following quotes are from the last week or so) points in the direction of a global melt down of information [...]

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