Articles tagged as: artificial intelligence
Just what do you think you’re doing, Alex?
April 29, 2009
Remember HAL 9000? The deadly T-2000? Sensitive David? The Nexus 6 replicants? Cylons? Reaching even further back, there’s Gort, Maria…even Robby! It wasn’t too long ago that computers and robots which paralleled or exceeded human ability were reserved exclusively for sci-fi and fantasy films. It’s a familiar story: man makes machine. Man is served by [...]
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Siftables: artificially intelligent toys
April 9, 2009
In this excellent short TED talk, an MIT grad student named David Merrill demonstrates the capabilities of Siftables, biscuit-size toy blocks that interact with each other using complex sensors. Siftables can be used to solve math problems, generate electronic music, create art, and tell stories: The technology used in Siftables is interesting on its own [...]
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