Open Source Neural Networking Tool, Behavioral Ads without Tracking, and More
Pirate software moving from bit torrent to commercial hosting services This is hardly surprising news and will probably continue as long as there are newer services to which pirates can move. Or...
View ArticleMore Analysis of ACTA under NDA, Possible Counter-Intuitions about the GPL,...
Opening of ACTA is hardly any opening at all Sherwin Siy of Public Knowledge was one of the folks who saw one section of one draft of the agreement under NDA. Without violating that NDA, he describes...
View ArticleDisturbing Details of UK Digital Economy Bill, First Look at Chrome OS, and More
Simulating a cortex more complex than a cat Another incremental step along the way in model the machinery of the human mind, according to Jon Stokes at Ars. The article highlights the uncertainty of...
View ArticleSecond Life Co-Founder to Tackle AI
Cory shared this story on Boing Boing. His plan is certainly ambitious, nothing less than running a distributed intelligence on the Second Life grid. Another novel aspect is that the project is open...
View ArticleAmusing Allegorical Story about Birds, Flight and AI
I love this story to which Cory linked at Boing Boing. The story describes bird scientists considering the question of artificial flight, holding it up to a preposterous standard of feather and muscle...
View ArticleJamming with Artificial Musicians
This story at Wired by Eliot Van Buskirk is pretty wild, tickling both my interest in artificial intelligence and far out policy implications. Startup Zenph Sound is modeling past performances by well...
View ArticleUnified Approach to AI
Slashdot links to a story at MIT News that literally explains how Noah Goodman, a researcher in Brain Science and Cognition and Computer Science and AI, has managed to unify the advantages of the...
View ArticleA Eulogy for Speech Recognition
This post by Robert Fortner (via Hacker News) provides a brief but detailed history of speech recognition from its inception to the present. It is hard to argue with his conclusion that the technology...
View ArticleGoogle Announces Prediction API
Slashdot highlights one of the more interesting announcements to come out of the Google I/O developer conference. This particular API is invite only at the moment which may be wise to at least...
View ArticleAnother Approach to Machine Learning
This profile by Katie Drummond at Wired of a Darpa project in AI caught my eye. In the past year or so, I’ve seen eulogies for sub-fields of artificial intelligence and announcements of the...
View ArticleUsing Neural Networks to Classify Music
Technology Review describes some recent research from the University of Hong Kong. Students there set about using a neural network to classify music spread across ten genres. Given the number of...
View ArticleAstronomers Use AI to Help Classify Galaxies
Slashdot links to a Singularity Hub article describing a project that is forehead slappingly obvious in hindsight. Scientists are teaching an artificial intelligence how to classify galaxies imaged by...
View ArticleAlbum Composed with Algorithmic Swarm
This story from Make is a little different than the couple of other recent AI music stories I’ve written up. In those instances, the music is being generated or processed at a much lower level, in a...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > State of WikiLeaks’ Site, What to Expect in Firefox 4,...
WikiLeaks site in disrepair? This Wired article by Ryan Singel is little better than a litany of breakages on the site. Despite the lurid lede, he doesn’t indulge in much speculation and actually...
View ArticleNeural Network in JavaScript
I’ve seen just about everything else implemented in the lightweight, scripting language of the web, so why not a neural network? I saw this via Hacker News and it doesn’t strike me as too far different...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Bill to Pressure Those Who Would Break the Internet,...
Another troubling case under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Bill to pressure countries seeking to break the Internet New Firefox Mobile release Historic cipher recovered and revealed Satirical,...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Self Replicating MakerBot, AI Predicting Manhole...
Self replicating MakerBot Via Nat’s Four Short Links on O’Reilly Radar. As he notes, highly appropriate as MakerBot started as a modified RepRap which was all about being self reproducible. AI used to...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Internet Kill Switch, Fair Use before DRM in Brazil, and...
Deconstructing the Internet kill switch Bruce Schneier takes a detailed look at a legislative instituted internet kill switch, despite his skepticism over the law making, past and present, required to...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Open Source Hardware Definition, Autonomous Helicopter,...
Sorry that this is it for today, I am rushing off a bit early to catch a public talk at Google’s DC office. Open source hardware draft definition 0.3 released If you think about the split between...
View ArticleUsing Swarm Intelligence with AI
In the same vein as the artificial life story I discussed on yesterday’s podcast, The Economist has an article discussing the application of swarming algorithms developed by observing ants. It is...
View ArticleNaive Prediction on Simulating a Human Brain
I am not surprised that the person making this prediction[1] is Ray Kurzweil. It seems like he may be the last person stumping for the singularity. As a step along the way, he is claiming that we’ll...
View ArticleKurzweil Responds to Critics of His Prediction
More specifically, he wrote a response to PZ Myers whose article I linked in my own criticism. I saw this via Hacker News and thought it would be fair to write it up as well, especially given the...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Faster JavaScript for Firefox 4, Details of Google’s New...
JaegerMonkey now in Firefox nightly builds, ReadWriteWeb Google moves beyond map/reduce for new index system The Register has some surprisingly good crunchy technical detail on how and why Caffeine...
View ArticleCyborgs Among Us
Slashdot points out that September is cyborg month. I, myself, have been accused of being more man than machine. Seriously I strongly appreciate the work of the early cyberneticists, realizing that...
View ArticleAn AI That Is Reading the Web to Learn
io9 has an excerpt from a longer article at Universe that describes an artificial intelligence program that is reading the web in order to learn language. The very idea sounds like it was taken from a...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Remembering Mandelbrot, and More
As I predicted, I was not able to get enough work done on the stories I had bookmarked for tonight’s news show. As busy I as I was volunteering yesterday and grinding on my interviews notes for this...
View Articlefeeds | grep links > Autonomous Vans Follow Marco Polo, Pushing Limits of...
Vans drive themselves across the world Slashdot links to a Techeye piece describing the track of four driver-less vehicles that successfully re-traced the route of Marco Polo. Autonomous vehicles seem...
View ArticleWatson and the Future of Machine Learning
I had only been following the story of IBM’s Watson taking on and besting two long standing Jeopardy champions peripherally. It just didn’t strike me as much more than a distraction in the field of...
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2015-11-15 The Command Line Podcast
This is an episode of The Command Line Podcast. This time, I chat about some recent news stories that caught my attention, including: Google Just Open Sourced TensorFlow, Its Artificial Intelligence...
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MIT working to make custom chips for AI more attractive for mobile
This reminds me of other research I’ve read about over the years to add other kinds of custom processors into the many core mix that is now prevalent even on mobile devices. This story isn’t even about...
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