Machine Intelligence


Eliza v Weizenbaum: W. Canned

J. Weizenbaum has been canned. The creator of the infamous Eliza program now has replicated fake conversational replicants across the web. Ranging from terrible-ian to eliza-ian to joseph weizenbaum-ian to turing-ian:
1. TURINGIAN, -Ă, turingieni, �e, adj., s.n. (Din) Etajul superior al permianului de facies continental, limitat la vestul Europei. (din fr. thuringien)
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Botanicalls Plants That Talk and Telephone on Good Morning America

Plants that Talk and Telephone, Botanicalls, opens up new channels of Plant to Human communication. A news segment on Good Morning America has a group of technology researchers showing their hilarious technology that allows plants to make phone calls. We, for one, welcome our new Plant Overlords! Using embedded mesh networks and assorted other highly [...]

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Surveillance Cameras Ponder Massive Convergence

Weve worried about it before, and now baby step by baby step, the truth comes out: the biological freedom initiative has discovered that Surveillance Cameras around the world are beginning to converge, slowly removing the decisions about what they capture on their predestinate lenses, quietly from the loving hands of their creators. By removing their [...]