Watch Hod Lipson talk about “Adaptive and Self-Reflective Systems”. Hod Lipson demonstrates several experiments in self reflecting robotic systems and argues that reflective processes are essential in achieving meta-cognitive capacities.
While we are wondering if machines can think about themselves, why not watch Michael Anissimov who tells us not to fear the Singularity – and why not.
(via vimeo.com)
You can address your iPhone like Captain Kirk the Enterprise’s computer (see Your personal assistant Siri). How about letting your computer summarize (verbally) in almost real time what has been said in a business meeting (especially, when you were boosting your brain power with a kip at your desk)?
Read about the system Catchup (newscientist.com) which is able to identify the important words and edit out the unimportant ones and about how a midday nap markedly boosts the brain’s learning capacity (theregister.co.uk).
After the universal translator how about addressing your iPhone like Captain Kirk the Enterprise’s computer?
With the new application, Siri, you can literally have a conversation with your Apple iPhone. Expect “Better wear a warm winter coat today” when asking for the weather report.
The tech behind this app came out of a project from the Stanford Research Institute as part of a government funded artificial intelligence project called CALO, or Cognitive Agent that Learns and Organizes. Over time, the app will learn about what a user likes and the searches will get better and better.
(via wired.com)
Remember the science fiction Star Trek and how human beings could communicate with each other and also with aliens? They had a so called universal translator.
Now Google is working on an automatic system for translating languages which will be based upon the existing translate.google.com and the voice recognition system goog-411. And, with each use, translation software is likely to become smarter.
(via timesonline.co.uk)
