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more about #ai Ruh Roh!: Can anybody even defend the Turing test as the true measure of intelligence, 60 years after its formulation? If it is, then job's done because the AI... more » Killjoy: The assumption hidden in the proposal "Let's make robots that act like us" is that our OS is worth porting to other hardware. more » Kirkaiya: Not disagreeing with deep.thought's comments below about where things are actually going, but I think a lot of the desire for a human-like AI is to ha... more » shpe: think outside the box! insted of making a machine human, why not try to make the human a machine... let's say a lobotomized brain witch have no lobo... more » deep.thought: As an (aspiring) AI/ML researcher, I think this is a bunch of rubbish. They make it sound as if the entire goal of software intelligence is to have it... more » blash: So in other words, what they're trying to do is approach AI from the perspective of parallel machines rather than parallel processes. Not a bad idea b... more » skierpage: I thought Cat Brain was a mind-blowingly impressive follow-on to the Blue Brain simulator. Blue Brain simulates a single neocortical column. It's on... more » Duckspwn: So now scientists have gotten themselves into a brain simulator pissing contest. Awesome. Progress, here we come! more » Poop Cooper: Meanwhile, scientists are puzzled by the dog brain simulator, unsure of whether they've created something endearing or stupid. Decide for yourself in... more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Clearly the rat is thinking, "Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit! Please let this just be a cat-skin rug and not an actual live cat..." more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Henry Markram, why do you hate cats? more » tomsomething: What exactly is the Turing test on artificial cat brains? "I did something and it ignored me. SUCCESS!" more » Skid-Vicious: The rat is thinking, "I have a cat" more » Kaiser-Machead: Headlines from the Future! African Grey Parrot Brain Simulator Tells Humanity It's Full Of Shit more » PN - gooapplesoft: this sounds like someone spilled a secret and now everyone is trying to clean up with their bs. conspiracy.... i like. more » ithyphallus, bonks morrigan: really, what could you get out of a cat brain other than 3/4 of a day sleeping and the remaining 1/4 pawing you, eating lasagna, and poop in a sandbox? more » Gann: Me order! Me Master! Me run Bordertown! more » ysirotin: Let's not forget that we have not solved the fundamental problem here: identifying obstacles and targets. In this case all of the obstacles were iden... more » Cyberization: Is anyone else even more excited about the future of robots after seeing this video? If Isaac Asimov were alive he'd be grinning alongside me. more » notlikeacat: LOL at 3:37 I swear the bot looks up at the human with an attitude. "Stop teasing me you bastard!" Pick it up at about 3:28 more » -
#artificialintelligence
MIT Plans to Rebuild Artificial Intelligence from the Ground Up
After 50 years and countless dead ends, incremental progress, and modest breakthroughs, artificial intelligence researchers are asking for a do-over. More » -
#ai
Rat Brain Simulator Calls IBM's Cat Brain Simulation Bogus
The cat brain simulation IBM supposedly pulled off has just been called out as a "PR stunt" by the leader of the Blue Brain project, who says that it's all a "mass deception of the public." More » -
#robots
Asimo Autonomously Navigates Moving Obstacle Course Right Into My Nightmares
Asimo, still licking its wounds after being outrun by Toyota, fired back earlier this month at Carnegie Mellon, where it learned how to navigate complex, moving obstacle courses. Seriously impressive stuff in this video—just wait until things start spinning! More » -
#robots
Toyota Humanoid Robot Gives Asimo a Run For Its Money
Shown here is Toyota's running robot. At 7 km/h it's not going to win any wind sprints in the Olympics, but nevertheless this thing is airborne for 100ms between strides as it skirts across the floor (i.e. genuine running). More » -
#manvsmachine
Specter of Deadly A.I. Looms In Wake of Invite-Only Asilomar Conference
Science fiction is great fun, but should we really be quaking in our boots over dangerous A.I. anytime soon? A growing number of scientists say yes, and the results of their February conference at Asilomar are finally being made public. More » -
#manvsmachine
Why the Terminator Uprising (Probably) Won't Ever Happen
When I interviewed Wired for War author PW Singer last March, he told me that the preconditions for a successful Terminator-type uprising are not in place. As computer development accelerates, however, those preconditions become way more possible. More » -
#caprica
Battlestar Galactica Prequel Caprica Says You Can Store 13.3 Brains On an iPod Shuffle
According to the script, each person's consciousness only takes 300MB. Do you believe it? Does this make you want to watch the series more or less? [io9] -
#science
Robot Makes Autonomous Scientific Discovery for First Time
A robot named Adam is reported to be the first robot ever to independently uncover scientific knowledge. More » -
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#robots
Swarm-bots Converge On Child, Rescue Her From Freaky Parents
The collective power of many little robots could do a lot of good for the world. But for now, it just pulls little children across the floor in a freaky way.
