Posts Tagged ‘robotics’

Religious Robots

March 22, 2013 by · Comments Off on Religious Robots
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Quotes from Robert Geraci, Apocalyptic AI: Visions of Heaven in Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality p. 133 “Ray Kurzweil believes that intelligent machines will be more spiritual than human being and believes that the future will include real and virtual houses of worship where intelligent machines will congregate (Kurzweil 1999, 153). Naturally, since all […]

PCA and image reconstruction

December 29, 2011 by · Comments Off on PCA and image reconstruction
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Two nice video from the course Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Unsupervised Learning: Dimensionality Reduction) http://www.ai-class.com/

Self-driving cars

December 29, 2011 by · Comments Off on Self-driving cars
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A message to the everything-list. I have attended a class Introduction to AI http://www.ai-class.com and there are two interesting videos from it about self-driving cars: Part 1 Part 2 I have no idea if this are Lobian machines or not (such a term has not been mentioned in the class, it looks like that engineers […]

Automaton, Know Thyself

March 27, 2011 by · Comments Off on Automaton, Know Thyself
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Stephenk on the everything-list has made a link to Automaton, Know Thyself: Robots Become Self-Aware http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=automaton-robots-become-self-aware Charles Q. Choi, February 24, 2011  So, Lipson and his colleagues developed a robot shaped like a four-legged starfish whose brain, or controller, developed a model of what its body was like. The researchers started the droid off with […]