MachineMachine /stream - tagged with intelligence http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com "Videogames are the experience of being ruled" http://killscreendaily.com/articles/essays/will-work-fun/ Revolutions are often thought of in terms of conflict and disorder, but they just as often come on waves of peaceful obsolescence. The old way of doing things is allowed to linger as long as it likes while everyone else gets on with the future. In the last few years the "free-to-play" model— where games are given away on mobile phones or online while the developer makes money through advertisements or the sale of in-game items—has encircled the videogame industry. At first it seemed like a curiosity, a unique idea that made sense in China and Korea, where loot-hoarding games… ]]> Thu, 17 May 2012 03:32:16 -0700 http://killscreendaily.com/articles/essays/will-work-fun/ Emergence of the Human 'SuperBrain' 75,000 Years Ago --"AI Could Blur Differences between Humans and Computers in Coming Centuries" http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/04/-emergence-of-the-human-superbrain-75000-years-ago-differences-between-humans-and-computers-could-bl.html "Humans obviously evolved a much wider range of communication tools to express their thoughts, the most important being language," said Hoffecker, a fellow at CU's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research. "Individual human brains within social groups became integrated into a neurologic Internet of sorts, giving birth to the mind." ]]> Sun, 22 Apr 2012 16:15:46 -0700 http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/04/-emergence-of-the-human-superbrain-75000-years-ago-differences-between-humans-and-computers-could-bl.html Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/turing-test-revisited/artificial-intelligence-could-be-on-brink-of-passing-turing-test-wired-science-wiredcom Artificial Intelligence could be on brink of passing The Turing Test : http://t.co/oLsEJN33 ]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 08:37:53 -0700 http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/turing-test-revisited/artificial-intelligence-could-be-on-brink-of-passing-turing-test-wired-science-wiredcom Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/13/large-study-shows-little-difference-between-human-and-robot-essay-graders/large-study-shows-little-difference-between-human-and-robot-essay-graders-inside-higher-ed Large study shows little difference between human and robot essay graders: http://t.co/W7pku7mG #x ]]> Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:30:19 -0700 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/04/13/large-study-shows-little-difference-between-human-and-robot-essay-graders/large-study-shows-little-difference-between-human-and-robot-essay-graders-inside-higher-ed Q&A;: The Anthropology of Searching for Aliens http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/space-anthropology/ Before we can understand an alien civilization, it might be useful to understand our own. To help in this task, anthropologist Kathryn Denning of York University in Toronto, Canada studies the very human way that scientists, engineers and members of the public think about space exploration and the search for alien life. From Star Trek to SETI, our modern world is constantly imagining possible futures where we dart around the galaxy engaging with bizarre alien races. Denning points out that when people talk about these futures, they often invoke the past. But they frequently seem to have a poor understanding… ]]> Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:07:52 -0700 http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/04/space-anthropology/ Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-11-16-building-smarter-machines-that-serve-humanity/daily-maverick-daphne-koller-when-machines-are-almost-human Daphne Koller: when machines are almost human - http://t.co/pYs9zvvH – Dan R.D. (Ddrrnt) http://twitter.com/Ddrrnt/status/187448712191152130 ]]> Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:42:57 -0700 http://dailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-11-16-building-smarter-machines-that-serve-humanity/daily-maverick-daphne-koller-when-machines-are-almost-human Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid…or Smart http://www.iasc-culture.org/eNews/2012_02/Wellmon.pdf/why-google-isnt-making-us-stupid-or-smart-httptcot4oxsjbt Why Google Isn’t Making Us Stupid… or Smart : http://t.co/T4OXsjbt ]]> Sun, 11 Mar 2012 04:12:38 -0700 http://www.iasc-culture.org/eNews/2012_02/Wellmon.pdf/why-google-isnt-making-us-stupid-or-smart-httptcot4oxsjbt How the internet transforms scientific discovery http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/12/14/spark-open-science.html/how-the-internet-transforms-scientific-discovery-technology-amp-science-cbc-news Open Science: How the internet transforms scientific discovery http://t.co/VzvVH0Xt ]]> Sun, 18 Dec 2011 03:05:43 -0700 http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/12/14/spark-open-science.html/how-the-internet-transforms-scientific-discovery-technology-amp-science-cbc-news Human Brain Is Limiting Global Data Growth http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27379 Evidence has emerged that the brain's capacity to absorb information is limiting the amount of data humanity can produce ]]> Fri, 09 Dec 2011 09:35:04 -0700 http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27379 Computing Machinery and Intelligence (by Alan Turing) http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html I propose to consider the question, "Can machines think?" This should begin with definitions of the meaning of the terms "machine" and "think." The definitions might be framed so as to reflect so far as possible the normal use of the words, but this attitude is dangerous, If the meaning of the words "machine" and "think" are to be found by examining how they are commonly used it is difficult to escape the conclusion that the meaning and the answer to the question, "Can machines think?" is to be sought in a statistical survey such as a Gallup poll. But… ]]> Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:53:59 -0700 http://www.loebner.net/Prizef/TuringArticle.html Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable... http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/12159601444

Electrical Model illustrating a Mind having a Will but capable of only Two Ideas

Lewis F. Richardson

]]> Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:42:00 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/12159601444 How Computational Complexity Will Revolutionise Philosophy http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/8731851297

Since the 1930s, the theory of computation has profoundly influenced philosophical thinking about topics such as the theory of the mind, the nature of mathematical knowledge and the prospect of machine intelligence. In fact, it’s hard to think of an idea that has had a bigger impact on philosophy.

And yet there is an even bigger philosophical revolution waiting in the wings. The theory of computing is a philosophical minnow compared to the potential of another theory that is currently dominating thinking about computation.

@ Technology Review

]]> Wed, 10 Aug 2011 05:31:23 -0700 http://tumblr.machinemachine.net/post/8731851297 Brute force or intelligence? The slow rise of computer chess http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/force-versus-heuristics-the-contentious-rise-of-computer-chess.ars When you visit the History of Computer Chess exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, the first machine you see is "The Turk."

In 1770, a Hungarian engineer and diplomat named Wolfgang von Kempelen presented a remarkable invention to the court of Maria Theresa, ruler of Hungary and Austria. It consisted of a mechanical figure dressed in (what Europeans saw as) Oriental garb, presiding over a cabinet upon which a chess board sat. Full of gears ostentatiously placed in a front side drawer, The Turk was cranked up by hand, after which an opponent… ]]> Mon, 08 Aug 2011 08:39:13 -0700 http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/08/force-versus-heuristics-the-contentious-rise-of-computer-chess.ars How Catholicism made Marshall McLuhan one of the twentieth century’s freest and finest thinkers http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2011.07-media-divine-inspiration/1/ APPROPRIATELY ENOUGH, a century after his birth in 1911, Marshall McLuhan has found a second life on the Internet. YouTube and other sites are a rich repository of McLuhan interviews, revealing that the late media sage still has the power to provoke and infuriate. Connoisseurs of Canadian television should track down a 1968 episode of a CBC program called The Summer Way, a highbrow cultural and political show that once featured a half-hour debate about technology between McLuhan and the novelist Norman Mailer.

Both freewheeling public intellectuals with a penchant for making wild statements, Mailer and McLuhan… ]]> Mon, 20 Jun 2011 09:16:25 -0700 http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2011.07-media-divine-inspiration/1/ Man Is Not Cat Food http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/6243684487/man-is-not-cat-food In the last decade, human vanity has taken a major hit. Traits once thought to be uniquely, even definingly human have turned up in the repertoire of animal behaviors: tool use, for example, is widespread among non-human primates, at least if a stick counts as a tool. We share moral qualities, such as a capacity for altruism with dolphins, elephants and others; our ability to undertake cooperative ventures, such as hunting, can also be found among lions, chimpanzees and sharks. Chimps are also capable of “culture,” in the sense of socially transmitted skills and behaviors peculiar to a particular group… ]]> Sun, 12 Jun 2011 08:12:05 -0700 http://lareviewofbooks.org/post/6243684487/man-is-not-cat-food Gigantic New SuperOrganism with 'Social Intelligence' is Devouring the Titanic http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/04/gigantic-new-superorganism-with-social-intelligence-is-devouring-the-titanic-todays-most-popular.html In 2000, Roy Cullimore, a microbial ecologist and Charles Pellegrino, scientist and author of Ghosts of the Titanic discovered that the Titanic --which sank in the Atlantic Ocean 97 years ago -- was being devoured by a monster microbial industrial complex of extremophiles as alien we might expect to find on Jupiter's ocean-bound Europa. What they discovered is the largest, strangest cooperative microorganism on Earth.

Scientists believe that this strange super-organism is using a common microbial language that could be either chemical or electrical -a phenomenon called "quorum sensing" by which whole communities "sense" each other's presence… ]]> Sun, 24 Apr 2011 02:53:34 -0700 http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2011/04/gigantic-new-superorganism-with-social-intelligence-is-devouring-the-titanic-todays-most-popular.html Humans, Version 3.0 http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/humans_version_3.0 This view of the future of humankind is grounded in an appreciation of the biologically innate powers bestowed upon us by hundreds of millions of years of evolution. This deep respect for our powers is sometimes lacking in the sciences, where many are taught to believe that our brains and bodies are taped-together, far-from-optimal kluges. In this view, natural selection is so riddled by accidents and saddled with developmental constraints that the resultant biological hardware and software should be described as a “just good enough” solution rather than as a “fine-tuned machine.” So it is no wonder that, when many… ]]> Sat, 05 Mar 2011 05:01:30 -0700 http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/humans_version_3.0 I, for One, Welcome Our New Robot Overlords http://www.american.com/archive/2011/february/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-robot-overlords In case you haven’t heard, the newest champion of "Jeopardy!," the popular TV game show, is a computer. Watson, an enormous computer developed by researchers at IBM, was pitted against the two previous human champions, Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. At the end of the first round, aired on Valentine’s Day, Jennings and Watson were tied for first place. But Watson trounced both humans in the next round, despite making some odd mistakes. And he won the second game, aired on February 16, suggesting the first victory was more than just beginner’s luck. When the IBM computer Deep Blue beat… ]]> Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:15:04 -0700 http://www.american.com/archive/2011/february/i-for-one-welcome-our-new-robot-overlords Is It Time to Welcome Our New Computer Overlords? http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/02/is-it-time-to-welcome-our-new-computer-overlords/71388/ "Watson is a computer that uncovers meaning in our language, and pinpoints the right answer, instantly. It uses deep analytics to answer questions computers never could before, even the ones on Jeopardy!" Then a Jeopardy! clue is displayed: "Groucho quipped, 'One morning I shot' this 'in my pajamas.'"
Now, that's a provocative set of claims. Watson's performance in the tournament (despite a few howlers along the way) clearly demonstrates that it is very skilled in particular types of question-answering, and I have no doubt it could handle that Groucho clue with aplomb. But does that mean that Watson "understands"… ]]> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 16:38:15 -0700 http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/02/is-it-time-to-welcome-our-new-computer-overlords/71388/ The Chess Master and the Computer http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-chess-master-and-the-computer/ In 1985, in Hamburg, I played against thirty-two different chess computers at the same time in what is known as a simultaneous exhibition. I walked from one machine to the next, making my moves over a period of more than five hours. The four leading chess computer manufacturers had sent their top models, including eight named after me from the electronics firm Saitek.

It illustrates the state of computer chess at the time that it didn’t come as much of a surprise when I achieved a perfect 32–0 score, winning every game, although there was an uncomfortable… ]]> Sun, 20 Jun 2010 15:11:00 -0700 http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/feb/11/the-chess-master-and-the-computer/