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Jan 5 / 10:00am

Camouflage from face-recognition software.

CV Dazzle™ is camouflage from computer vision (CV). It is a form of expressive interference that combines makeup and hair styling (or other modifications) with face-detection thwarting designs. The name is derived from a type of camouflage used during WWI, called Dazzle, which was used to break apart the gestalt-image of warships, making it hard to discern their directionality, size, and orientation. Likewise, the goal of CV Dazzle is to break apart the gestalt of a face, or object, and make it undetectable to computer vision algorithms, in particular face detection.
via cvdazzle.com

Filed under  //  Computing   ai   privacy  
 
Jun 22 / 4:39pm

Scientists developing memory expansion cards ...for brains.

These integrated experimental modeling studies show for the first time that with sufficient information about the neural coding of memories, a neural prosthesis capable of real-time identification and manipulation of the encoding process can restore and even enhance cognitive mnemonic processes...
via prnewswire.com

Filed under  //  ai   mind   science   singularity  
 
Mar 31 / 4:17pm

Google Talk Guru - an interactive im bot.

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Google Talk Guru is an experimental service that allows people to get information like sports results, weather forecasts, definitions etc via chat. It works on many popular chat applications that support Google Talk.
via guru.googlelabs.com

 

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Mar 25 / 4:03pm

Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper Software

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People get bored, people get headaches. Computers don’t.
via nytimes.com

Filed under  //  ai   singularity  
 
Dec 2 / 4:06pm

One In Ten Of Your Friends Will Not Be Human By 2015

By 2015, efforts to systematize and automate social engagement will result in the rise of social bots — automated software agents that can handle, to varying degrees, interaction with communities of users in a manner personalized to each individual.
via allfacebook.com

Filed under  //  ai   singularity  
 
Nov 11 / 6:30am

90' of Cantor, Boltzmann, Gödel and Turing

BBC's Dangerous Knowledge: In this one-off documentary, David Malone looks at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide:


Filed under  //  ai   mathematics   singularity   video  
 
Oct 15 / 7:14am

Why the Singularity isn't going to happen: Annalee Newitz

But Newitz's critique of insufficiently weird technological prediction is spot on. She's identified a common flaw in futuristic prediction: assuming that technology will go far enough to benefit us, and then stop before it disrupts us.
via boingboing.net

I shouldn't help draw any more attention to such poor journalism, but this is a move I see all the time: refuting a straw man version of the Singularity. That assumption "that technology will go far enough to benefit us, and then stop before it disrupts us" isn't common at all! With the notable exception of Ray Kurzweil, few scientists make any assumptions about whether the Singularity is going to be kind to us. It is merely a technological event all trends indicate is going to occur in the next ten or fifteen years. We can no more speculate on what awaits us on the other side of that event than we can now on what happened prior to the Big Bang.

Ms. Newitz, that's precisely why Vernor Vinge chose the term "Singularity." ...get it?

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Aug 28 / 4:59pm

Outsourced Call Centers Return, To U.S. Homes : NPR

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via npr.org

The key to the portability of these call centers is the limited domain of their subjects' terminology. Given that American callers use maybe 7,000 distinct words a day, how long before they move these call centers one last time, to computers?

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