Tag Archives: artificial intelligence

The advance of swarm intelligence

Impact: Artificial Intelligence    August 15, 2010
Swarm intelligence – where the behavior of many semi-intelligent individuals becomes intelligent in collective activity – think of ants or bees, has been an area of study for some time but on no perceivable schedule or cycle seems to appear in the popular media as a matter of considerable importance. I thought of this while [...]
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Ethical killer drones

Impact: Robotics    April 1, 2010
The trend in modern warfare, which typically means the U.S. military in Iraq and Afghanistan, is attack your enemies by remote, work with the friendlies up close. Air power, rocketry, and artillery have long been weapons of remote attack; now the arsenal includes drones – flying robotics that do everything except make the decision to [...]
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The Mind Machine Project

Spun: January 31, 2010
Here’s a rant, for your delectation, or distaste: This month (Jan. 2010) MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. USA) kicks off a five year, five-million dollar (at least) research orgy called the Mind Machine Project (MMP). Machine Mind = Artificial intelligence (AI). Now there’s a concept. Oh wait. We tried that, what? Fifty years [...]
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