Kybernetica.com: May 2006 Archives

Kybernetica.com > May 31, 2006

Roomba: The new astronaut? Artificial intelligence aiding space robots

[Robot Stock News -- All about iRobot, Roomba, Scooba and PackBot] The New York Times mentions the Roomba autonomous vacuuming robot in an article about how NASA scientists are having to build more sophisticated robot rovers, satellites and even blimps for far-flung space missions to places such as Titan, Europa, Jupiter and Saturn, where human controllers are hours away, even at the speed of light, in this enlightening article, titled Intelligent Beings in Space! Seems the Roomba's low-level artificial intelligence is the sort scientists are building upon. Enough to get the job done, but nothing remotely approaching the level of cognition and understanding.

This Week in Science - May 30, 2006 Broadcast

[- This Week in Science - The Kickass Science Podcast -] 575 Joan of Arc Years, Ugh”¦ Bad Sound Quality, Driving Us Wild, Blame the Bacteria, Chocolate Smarties, Weed for Your Health, LA Insubstantiations, Leeches!, Robot Domination, Hobbit Drama, In Search of the 5th Dimension, Communism Takes the Bacteria, and Oh, the End of the World. archeology, artificial intelligence, Black Holes, cancer, deep sky, end of the world, evolution, global warming, medicine, microbiology, neuroscience, nutrition, physics, recreational drugs, robots, theoretical physics, therapies, world robot domination

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May 31, 2006

Roomba: The new astronaut? Artificial intelligence aiding space robots

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This Week in Science - May 30, 2006 Broadcast

Posted at 02:41 AM

May 28, 2006

Google users promised artificial intelligence

[Steves Ramblings] Speaking at a conference for Google's European partners, entitled Zeitgeist '06, on the outskirts of London last night Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and co-founder Larry Page gave an insight into perhaps the most ambitious project the Californian business is undertaking - artificial intelligence (AI).

Posted at 02:43 AM

Google With AI

[Ink Scrawl] The ultimate search engine would understand everything in the world. It would understand everything that you asked it and give you back the exact right thing instantly.

Posted at 02:42 AM

May 25, 2006

Samsung To Release NAND-based Portable Computers

[Moneycontrol Tech Blog > Personal Tech At Its Best] The retail price for the Q1-SSD will be 2.3 million Korean won, (about $2,430), while the Q30-SSD will retail for 3.5 million won (about $3,700). Performance wise two devices will boot approximately 25 percent to 50 percent faster, reading and writing data has been measured at 53 Mbytes/s and 23 Mbytes/s, respectively, significantly faster than a typical 4,200-RPM hard drive.

Posted at 02:42 AM

78 - Evolutionary Robotics (Part Three)

[Pulse] As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, it feeds into yet another new field: “complexity.” If AI aims to mimic the dynamics of individual minds, the science of complexity looks to a broader dynamic””that of large numbers of individuals interacting in complex systems. How do order and chaos work together in sustaining life?

Posted at 02:39 AM

May 22, 2006

68 - Save the Robots

[Pulse] While parallel distributed processing made dramatic advances, another aspect of natural intelligence was taking hold on a different front. It sought...

Posted at 02:41 AM

Links for 19-05-2006

[Velcro City Tourist Board] Links for 19-05-2006 May 19th, 2006 1 - Second Life Land Deal Goes Sour First ever law-suit over virtual property? (tags: lawsuit property dispute...

Posted at 02:40 AM

May 19, 2006

69 - Creature Features (Part One)

[Pulse] Brooks’ research looks to ethology, the study of how animals interact with their worlds. It sees animal behavior as shaped first by inborn tendencies, and then by what happens when those tendencies meet the influences, obstacles, and rewards of the outside world.

Posted at 02:44 AM

Is Cognitive Computing Poised to be an "Overnight Success"?

[FutureWire - futurism and emerging technology] Artificial intelligence, fuzzy logic, neural networks, the Fifth Generation project -- they've all had big moments in the sun. The reality is we've not had much success." But he's not as pessimistic as he sounds, as he has founded a company called Numenta to build a computer memory platform that mimics human thought processes. Others, citing rapid advances in computing power and efficiency, believe we may be much closer to major breakthroughs. Says James Albus, a senior fellow and founder of the Intelligent Systems Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, "We are at a tipping point...

Posted at 02:42 AM

May 16, 2006

A minsky machine to play with

[programming musings] Over at Good Math, Bad Math (a wonderful blog i wholeheartedly recommend), Mark Chu-Carroll has published a minsky machine to play with, implemented in Scheme. In case you’re wondering, Mark also explains what a minski machine is (and why they’re equivalent to Turing machines).

Posted at 02:52 AM

Gadgetell First Look: Accoona searches ”˜news’ and ”˜business’

[Gadgetell - The Tech News, Reviews, and Interesting Things Blog] Gadgetell First Look: Accoona searches ”˜news’ and ”˜business’ Posted May 15th, 2006, 11:02 am by Adam Berger Section: Websites Tags: accoona, artificial intelligence, business news, news site, search engines, semantic map We know, we know, there are already so many search engines out there - who needs one more. Well we don’t develop them though there are some non-Google ones that we love.

Posted at 02:49 AM

May 13, 2006

Baby Robot Develops Consciousness

[Psychology and the Singularity] Modeling, or defining, consciousness remains one of the intractable problems of both science and philosophy. The problem is duality, where does the brain end and the mind begin, the question is whether we need to consider them as two different aspects of reality.

Posted at 02:51 AM

59 - Smart Machines (Part Two)

[Pulse] As support for their claims, Minsky, Papert, and the other champions of classical AI pointed to how well Eliza and similar “expert systems” were doing in the Turing test. That was something suggested in 1950 by famed mathematician Alan Turing, who first conceived what would become the modern computer.

Posted at 02:44 AM

May 10, 2006

Why Can't my Roomba Look Like This: Korea's New Android

[Psychology and the Singularity] Androids can be more disturbing for human interaction than robots that only minimally resemble human beings The more a robot looks and acts like a human being, the more we begin to treat it as human and more importantly anticipate how it will interact with us. When it fails to do so even in small ways such as jerky movements or inappropriate facial gestures then we feel uncomfortable or disturbed in the same way as interacting with a human being who does show socially appropriate movement or gestures.

Posted at 02:39 AM

Recursion, logic and co.

[programming musings] Julian Noble’s small collection of articles includes a nice and colorful introduction to recursion (with examples in C and Forth) and a very interesting discussion of complex numbers and their implementation.

Posted at 02:38 AM

May 04, 2006

22 - Loops and Flows

[Pulse] Evelyn Hutchinson fitted notions of metabolism more elegantly into ecological studies. And in the 1950s his student Howard Odum would begin the work of actually mapping energy flows through natural systems.

Posted at 02:51 AM

Randomly-generated ’scientific paper’ accepted

[ Technoccult: fringe culture scrapbook] Sick of receiving spam emails requesting submissions to the 2005 World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics - which charges $390 for each attendee - students Jeremy Stribling, Daniel Aguayo and Maxwell Krohn of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology wrote a program to generate a nonsense paper.

Posted at 02:49 AM

Kybernetica.com > May 31, 2006

Roomba: The new astronaut? Artificial intelligence aiding space robots

This Week in Science - May 30, 2006 Broadcast

May 31, 2006

Roomba: The new astronaut? Artificial intelligence aiding space robots

This Week in Science - May 30, 2006 Broadcast

May 28, 2006

Google users promised artificial intelligence

Google With AI

May 25, 2006

Samsung To Release NAND-based Portable Computers

78 - Evolutionary Robotics (Part Three)

May 22, 2006

68 - Save the Robots

Links for 19-05-2006

May 19, 2006

69 - Creature Features (Part One)

Is Cognitive Computing Poised to be an "Overnight Success"?

May 16, 2006

A minsky machine to play with

Gadgetell First Look: Accoona searches ”˜news’ and ”˜business’

May 13, 2006

Baby Robot Develops Consciousness

59 - Smart Machines (Part Two)

May 10, 2006

Why Can't my Roomba Look Like This: Korea's New Android

Recursion, logic and co.

May 04, 2006

22 - Loops and Flows

Randomly-generated ’scientific paper’ accepted

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