We Prometheus give Fire to Mortal Robot. Olympics. Metaphor. Turing.

 Alan Turing, Audio Posts, CareBots, Multimedia, NBI, Robot, Technology  Comments Off
Sep 222011
 

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Fire. Give it to Me.

So this computer scientist guy named James Law has nominated the iCub robot to be a torch bearer for the 2012 Olympics. His stated agenda is to honor legendary computer scientist and AI/NBI pioneer Alan Turing (an ANTHROBOTIC favorite, covered here before – he made the HOMO’S DEVIL MACHINE!!    …never gets old).

Anywho, the whole Turing connection and general coolness of the idea appeals – we should begin integrating non-biological lifeforms into everyday activities and ceremonies. But most interesting to me is the humans giving fire to a robot metaphoric symbology going on here.

I mean come on – this is hilarious!  Olympics? Fire? Prometheus? Will iCub’s descendants still believe in us thousands of years from now?

[VIA NEW SCIENTIST]

Religion Democratized by Technology, or Victim of the “Homo’s Devil Machine?”

 AI, Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence, Future Already Very Pending, Technology, The Beginning is Near  Comments Off
May 182011
 

Due to Alan Turing being gay, the computer is the Devil’s Homo Machine?  Well, technology DOES allow for individuals to interpret scripture on their own, and come to their own conclusions.  And that’s powerful.

Article here, click on the idiot below to learn about Alan Turing!

[VIA CNN BELIEF BLOG]

Alan Turing Film – Coming Soon

 AI, Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence, Brain, Cybernetics, Human Augmentation, Multimedia, Neurology, Robot, Technology  Comments Off
Mar 302011
 

“Turing was the British WW II code breaker and early pioneer of computer science and artificial intelligence who proposed an operational test of intelligence as a replacement for the philosophical question, “Can machines think?”

[VIA KURZWEIL AI]

Turing Tuesday: The Significance of Watson and Mind vs. Machine

 Alan Turing, Artificial Intelligence  2 Responses »
Feb 152011
 

The Significance of Watson, by Ray Kurzweil
“By the time the controversy dies down and it becomes unambiguous that nonbiological intelligence is equal to biological human intelligence, the AIs will already be thousands of times smarter than us.”

[VIA KURZWEIL AI]

Mind vs. Machine, by Brian Christian
“THE MARCH OF TECHNOLOGY ISN’T JUST CHANGING HOW WE LIVE, IT’S RAISING NEW QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN.”

[VIA THE ATLANTIC]

Editor’s note – it’s currently Tuesday in Japan!