Newspapers are testimonials of history. The same is increasingly true of social media such as online forums, online communities, and blogs. By looking at the sequence of articles over time, one can discover the birth and the development of trends that marked society and history – a field known as “Culturomics”. But Culturomics has so far been limited to statistics on keywords.
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Large information processing objects have some serious limitations due to signal delays and heat production.
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Design stated as a single word typically means design of form, such as with industrial design, graphic design, and interior design. Why AI books rarely, if ever, even mention the word “design”?
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All the presentations from the Screen Shot 2015-01-16 at 1.37.45 PM Seventh Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-14) in Quebec City
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Polymorphic entities have the same interfaces. Typically one ends up with a family of types of objects (e.g. classes). At any given time, if you are given an object of a family, you can interface to it the same way.
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This is a double movie review, Computer Chess vs. Game Over -- Kasparov And The Machine.
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I recently visited Nuance and talked with Dr. Charlie Ortiz about the Winograd Schema Challenge.
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Cybernetics, Art, and Ideas (1971) by Jasia Reichardt is a lost and out of print masterwork of multimedia, interactive, and computer generated art that will be of interest to transhumanists.
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Whatever position you take on finitism, this obscure area of the philosophy of mathematics is well worth understanding.
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Here's a prediction I made about "intelligent agent" technology in 1993. How close did I get to our present reality?
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