Sam KenyonSquircles! In space! According to astronomer Pat Morris, these nebulae are “partial dust shells formed where the winds of the orbiting Wolf-Rayet and O stars […]
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Strange But True: The US Military Once Wanted to Nuke the Moon “Will we need the first-ever ‘drop second’ in 2023?” Earth Is Spinning Faster […]
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The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life. Harvard scientists are hoping to find a crashed alien space probe at the bottom of the […]
Knives, Robots and the Pentagon
Telepresence and Following Yourself So there I was at the initial outdoor security check at the Pentagon. They asked each person to open any laptop […]
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Think current AI text generators are getting us very close to human-like language acquisition? Gary Marcus says think again: “Learning Language is Harder Than You […]
Is Human-Level AI Possible Without Childhood Emotions?
Emotional Developmental Symbol Creation To create an artificial intelligence similar to humans or other animals, it has to have some way to generate meaning. A […]
The Ideal Film AI
Many years ago, Ben Bogart asked the question: “What do you consider the most seminal representations of AI in cinema of all time?” At the […]
Walk Softly and Carry an Appropriately Sized Stick
Polymorphism in Mental Development What does a crow with a stick have to do with computer programming? And AI? Before we get there, I propose […]
Creating a Bookmark List
In response to “The Small Website Discoverability Crisis” I’m making a list of bookmarks to small sites that I find interesting. And interesting does not […]
Growing Robot Minds
One way to increase the intelligence of a robot might be to train it with a series of missions, analogous to the missions or levels […]