Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
Brainlike Computers, Learning From Experience
The new computing approach, already in use by some large technology companies, is based on the biological nervous system, specifically on how neurons react to stimuli and connect with other neurons to interpret information. It allows computers to absorb new information while carrying out a task, and adjust what they do based on the changing signals.
Really an interesting piece on the NYT by John Markoff. Fascinating to see how quickly things will be changing.
TIME reporters recorded these creepy phone conversations with a robot telemarketer that, when asked if it is a robot, laughs and insists it is a “real person.”
But was it actually a robot who could understand and reply as quickly?
Alexis Madrigal from The Atlantic investigated:
Samantha West is a human being who understands English but who is responding with a soundboard of different pre-recorded messages. So a human parses the English being spoken and plays a message from Samantha West. It is IVR, but the semantic intelligence is being provided by a human. You could call it a cyborg system. Or perhaps an automaton in that 18th-century sense.
Unbeatable rock-paper-scissors robot
Unbeatable rock-paper-scissors robot
Some Japanese scientists have a lot of free time.