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The Artificial Baby

[The Speculist] Ben Goertzel says that his team at Novamente is about seven years of work away from true AI "infant" that can begin to ascend the cognitive ladder towards human intelligence.

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Smart automated Political Risk Analysis

[Smart Economy] Problem: Corporations who are seeking to expand their international operations(either by making substantial investments in local corporations, by developing new products for new markets, or by establishing regional manufacturing, distribution, or sales facilities) often encounter substantial risks that greatly differ from the domestic risks they encounter at home. These include: physical risks (e.g., the kidnapping or assassination of executives), economic risks (e.g., currency fluctuations and discriminatory confiscation of assets), market risks (e.g., rejection by foreign consumers of products that were successful domestically), and technological risks (e.g., lack of a reliable telecommunications infrastructure) political risk Political risk has been defined as "”¦ the possibility that political decisions, events, or conditions in a country, including those that might be defined as social, will affect the business environment such that investors will lose money or have a reduced...

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October 31, 2006

The Artificial Baby

[The Speculist] Ben Goertzel says that his team at Novamente is about seven years of work away from true AI "infant" that can begin to ascend the cognitive ladder towards human intelligence.

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Posted at 02:44 AM

Smart automated Political Risk Analysis

[Smart Economy] Problem: Corporations who are seeking to expand their international operations(either by making substantial investments in local corporations, by developing new products for new markets, or by establishing regional manufacturing, distribution, or sales facilities) often encounter substantial risks that greatly differ from the domestic risks they encounter at home. These include: physical risks (e.g., the kidnapping or assassination of executives), economic risks (e.g., currency fluctuations and discriminatory confiscation of assets), market risks (e.g., rejection by foreign consumers of products that were successful domestically), and technological risks (e.g., lack of a reliable telecommunications infrastructure) political risk Political risk has been defined as "”¦ the possibility that political decisions, events, or conditions in a country, including those that might be defined as social, will affect the business environment such that investors will lose money or have a reduced...

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October 28, 2006

How Did Our Ancestors’ Minds Work? How Do They Compare To A Standard Minion?

[ Mad Scientist World News] However, in a study recently published in Current Biology (September 5, 2006), researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and their colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology were able to find answers to these questions using an alternative research method: comparative psychological research. In this way, they discovered that some of the strategies shaped by evolution are evidently masked very early on by the cognitive development process unique to humans.

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Links for 27-10-2006

 [Velcro City Tourist Board] Fresh from teh intarwebs”¦ 1 - Protopanpsychism and the consciousness conundrum, or why we shouldn’t assume uploads “Despite grandiose and cocksure proclamations to the contrary, consciousness is still a hard problem in science.” Excellent article, full of interesting theories and laden with links. A must-read for singularity fans. (tags: technological singularity transhumanism upload mind simulation computing quantum philosophy intelligence artificial consciousness protopanpsychism) 2 - Schwarzenegger prods Bush on warming "The Republican governor wrote that the state's request for a federal waiver to set vehicle emissions standards has been "ignored with no explanation" despite an earlier letter from the governor to Bush." Don't make him angry, (tags: politics climate US Bush ignored waiver law standards emissions vehicle California Shwarzenegger) 3 - Al Gore: Earth is in ”˜Full-Scale Planetary Emergency’ “Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore has called for better use of the ’space...

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October 25, 2006

A New Model Provides A Better Way To Analyze Sound

[ Mad Scientist World News] Humans have 200 million light receptors in their eyes, 10 to 20 million receptors devoted to smell, but only 8,000 dedicated to sound. Yet despite this miniscule number, the auditory system is the fastest of the five senses. Researchers credit this discrepancy to a series of lightning-fast calculations in the brain that translate minimal input into maximal understanding.

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October 22, 2006

2D to 3D Alchemy: Teaching Geometric Context to Dumbass Machines

[Free Load] Here’s a pleasant video to start your day, showing the work of researchers at Carnegie Mellon University who taught computers to translate a flat 2D photograph into a 3D scene. And just listen to…

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Turing Test Proves 2-Year-Olds Not Human

 [ PoliTech] Mason said, “This began as a study in human communication, but one of our Computer Science friends mentioned the whole concept of the Turing Test to us, and we decided to give it a go. Little did we know that we’d reach such an astounding result.”

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October 19, 2006

All about Alan Turing

 [ programming musings] All about Alan Turing October 9th, 2006 by jao The november issue of the Notices of the AMS is entirely devoted to Alan Turing. As always, all...

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on iPods and Netflix

[eric brochu | haiku factory] This article from The New York Times talks about the issues involved in Netflix recent contest announcement, offering a million-dollar bounty to anyone that can improve the company’s movie recommendation system beyond a certain point. And this article in The Guardian talks about the problems inherent in using actual randomness in the iPod’s shuffle function —

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October 16, 2006

Thing/thing society

 [david galipeau information flow\how] A sociologist would suggest that the rise of postmodernism is associated with the defeat of the revolutionary movement. A mass movement of the working class was derailed by the 'western leadership' who sought to turn the mass movement into legalistic and parliamentary channels.

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Discovery RC Chromashift Roboreptile

 [ technogad] Buy or use a red product and a percentage of the money goes to the Global Fund which is channelled towards the Rwandan Ministry of Health’s comprehensive HIV/AIDS programs, mainly to provide anti-retroviral treatment for children and adults in a third of the country. The products now include red iPod, [...]'>Red Products to fight Aids

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