ACE, Autonomous City Explorer, isn't really a detective, it's... well, a city explorer, but a different sort of city explorer from this guy
When picturing a robot rolling around Munich for five hours asking for directions my imagination can't help but add a trench coat, fedora, and world-weary face with a cigarette hanging from it ( Read more... )

The AI test results are in. Elbot came out on top.

A friend of mine, the one who fears the robot insurrection, helpfully pointed out to me that the Turing Test is a bad idea, “because its premise is to fool the humans, which is not something we want to teach our future predators ( Read more... )

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"Whenever we get a new idea, or find a new way to solve a problem, then we may make a memory record of it. But records are useless unless you have ways to "re-collect" the ones that are relevant to the problem that you are facing right now. I'll argue that this needs a lot of machinery." -Marvin Minsky ( Read more... )