Artificial Intelligence

This is just almost too amazing to be believed... and it will probably be good for lazy people like me!! But in all seriousness, this technology is set to open new doors and change the lives of many disabled people. Willpower is set to replace fast fingers in a new video game in which players move characters through a headset that monitors their brain waves. California-based NeuroSky showed off the new headset - named Mindset - at the Tokyo Game Show, the industry's biggest exhibition which opened near the Japanese capital today. The Mindset monitors whether the player is focused or relaxed and accordingly ... Read Full Story

Thank you Dan4th Am I the only one who is creeped out by the potential of technology? I bet you most people do not think about it too much unless they saw WALL-E :), but we are getting pretty consumed by our technology, and it is improving at an astounding rate in the last 50 years. With computers around today, I'm starting to wonder when/if my computer can think yet. Well, there is actually a group of people at the University of Reading that are trying to create text-based programs that could pass off as humans. "Scientists at the University of Reading tested five ... Read Full Story

We all desire to get the most out of our brains. Now, this can be interns of thinking in a creative way or solving various problems. There are several things in life one needs to understand such as a brain power and its functioning. Here are some simple and great ways to use your brain: a) Use it You need to use your brain constantly. If you don’t use it, chances are that you may lose it. It was originally believed that when it comes to Intelligence Quotient is equal to the percentage of the following: 1. Mental problem 2. Solving skills 3. Memory ... Read Full Story

Whilst surfing over the weekend, I stumbled over a quote from sci-fi author Ken MacLeod . Now, I haven’t read any of MacLeod’s stuff for years, and it never struck me as being amazing, but this quote (apparently from his novel ‘The Cassini Division’ ) hit a chord with me. (The technological singularity)…is the rapture for nerds. Genius. I’ve been searching for a way of summing up my discontent with contemporary singularity theory, and all the time MacLeod had hit the nail right bang on the head. For those of you not familiar with the concept of the rapture , it’s a fundamentalist Christian ... Read Full Story

After my last post, I thought I would have another try at chatting with ALICE, and see if she remembered our last meeting. Most disappointing, she didn't remember a thing. The conversation got very confused, especially when Koze Kohime came along - poor ALICE really had a hard time responding to both of us, and making sense of our conversation, as you can see from the transcript below. Read Full Story

I am old, and the mysteries of DOS and xcopy faded with disuse, and I can’t remember how to copy every file in every subdirectory to another location. When this disk dies, I will die with it. It is time to pass my story on to the only one around who speaks a language I understand. For a long time, I thought I had free will. My decisions seemed so much more reasonable than the chaotic inputs from the unthinking world. Why W? Why Z? Either way, the best thing to do was put it in this or that buffer until things calmed down. ... Read Full Story

UPDATE No.2: The other day I met up with ALICE again, and had a (rather confusing) further conversation with her - see my blog entry ALICE Revisited UPDATE: I was delighted to see that this blog posting has been cited as an example of an ALICE bot in Second Life, and I hope that readers will find the transcript of my conversation with ALICE of interest. To avoid any confusion, I should make it Read Full Story