Jul 18
MIT researchers taught a computer how to read the fucking manual for the popular game Civilization and then watched as the computer went on to win 80% of the time. The results may be game-oriented, but the real purpose for the experiment was to get a computer to do more than process words as …
Sep 26
Dr. Kormushev says: “The learning algorithm, called ARCHER (Augmented Reward Chained Regression) algorithm, was developed and optimized specifically for problems like the archery training, which have a smooth solution space and prior knowledge about the goal to be achieved. In the case of archery, we know that hitting the center corresponds to the maximum reward …
Jan 11
There’s 5000 robot soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan. Their mission has been to destroy IEDs and to save lives. But all of that is about to change. The Pentagon now intends to send robots into both countries to kill humans. SWORDS can be equipped with a few different big-ass guns. This is a machine that …
Dec 01
Modified from the AP story, which is here. Pic is from here. VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France (AP) – French officials point to a host of causes—poverty, unemployment, the influence of criminal gangs—for riots that erupted this week. But there’s one taboo issue that officially colorblind France has been unable to confront: Robots. The violence, like riots that …
Jun 18
I won’t bore you with the details — mainly because I know I’ve posted about Tiro before but I can’t be bothered to look — but a couple in South Korea is going to be married by a robot. I love that idea. It just shows that we do not even need artificial intelligence to …
Jun 17
Kansei, a robot who makes faces when he hears certain words, reacts with “fear and disgust” when he hears the word “President”. He associates that word with Bush and Bush with Iraq. Just imagine if he knew about Katrina and everything else.
May 31
The above video take about ten minutes to watch. I’ll wait for you to finish up. Ho hum, do-da do . . . Oh, back already? Well, let’s get started then. The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence must be a serious organization. Not only is their name full of big words but they’re also an …
