The American 60 Minutesprofile of New York City’s massive anti-terrorism network was nothing short of amazing: 35,000 police, 15,000 civilians unattended bag-tracking artificial intelligence. Cameras, oh the cameras! One message for potential terrorists: “Stay away.”
Remember those amazing chatbots that talked about unicorns, God, and got a little flirty? As xkcd astutely observes, there’s only one other place on Earth you can find that combination of philosophy and disorientation: the Black Rock Desert, last weekendish.
The sick bastards at Cornell’s Creative Machines Lab thought it’d be a hoot to force two chatbot AI programs to talk to one another. The result is deranged, extremely uncomfortable, a fraught with hostility. Much like real human interaction!
So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case.
A team at Caltech has developed an artificial neural network from human DNA molecules. Yup, we used a bit of ourselves to create artificial intelligence. I think I know how this story ends.
If The Jetsons’ Rosie had the personality of an automotive assembly line robot, she’d have been turned into sprockets long ago. IEEE discusses the latest efforts to endow domestic robots with a bit of attitude.
Everyone loves a few rounds of a classic video game, but why should humans have all the fun? The Ms Pac-Man vs Ghost Team Competition serves to redress the balance by putting AI controllers in charge of video game characters in an effort to see which plays the game best.
The tough thing about translation: You need someone who actually speaks both languages. Easy for Spanish to English, not so much for Swahili to Inuktitut.In the Plex by Steven Levyillustrates how Google’s machine translations will revolutionize human communication.
There’s nothing you can do to prevent another Terminator movie. But if you have a buck, you can do something to stop real Terminators…or at least ensure that they’ll like us when they show up.
That there will be robots and “smart” computer systems in our future is all but assured, but what will the lucky children be playing with? Probably an Adaptive System for Real-Time Behavioral Coaching and Command Intermediation.
