The Future of AI
Artificial intelligence has made some remarkable leaps and bounds since its basic principles were first recorded in 1943, at the time of the invention of the first computers. In those early years, AI was primitive and and often went no further than pitting a computer’s “brain” against a human’s for a game of checkers. But those who first envisioned machines that could think as humans do have begun an epic quest in humanity that has far reaching implications in the realms of bioethics, not merely computer science and...
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One of the coolest television series of all time was Robot Wars, the geeked out game show from the U.K. which began in 1997 and ran through 2004. The show was modeled on a competition from the United States, US Robot Wars. These wars took place in San Francisco, California and had three divisions for weight classes of the robots who would be designed, built, and battled by their makers. In the US, the Face Off game set one robot against another, so that they could battle their way through an elimination tourney. The winner was the...
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- Why your computer is becoming like your phone February 21, 2012Apple released Mountain Lion to developers last week, a new operating system that will make your desktop computer work more like your phone than ever before. […]
