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Gary Varner
Date
December 25, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Agent Smith (character in Matrix series), Featured, Matrix Resurrections (film), Matrix Trilogy (films), Neo (character in Matrix), Trinity (character in Matrix)}

The Matrix Resurrections: The Studio Is Making Us Do This!

_{Mark Zuckerberg, eat your heart out. If there is one word to describe this movie, that word is Meta.} _{Gary Varner
December 25, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

Let’s address the most contentious issue first. This movie isn’t great, but it’s not The Last Jedi bad. Matrix fans aren’t going to be storming the gates in protest, because their beloved characters were assassinated for “the message.” It’s true that Neo is nerfed so that Trinity can take his place. This is annoying because, as I’ve said before, nobody wants to see a Dragon Ball Z spectacle featuring Neo’s powers just so the poor sap could die in obscurity because nothing he did mattered anyway. They didn’t do this, and that is to the writer’s credit. If there was anybody who deserved a deus ex machina sent by the Social Justice Warriors from on high, it was Trinity. Her Read More ›

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Heather Zeiger
Date
December 18, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Education

Tagged
Kai-Fu Lee}

What If Your Schooling Meant an AI Telling You What To Do?

_{Lee and Chen are techno-optimists. They recognize the benefits of innovative technologies while acknowledging its inherent limitations and societal costs} _{Heather Zeiger
December 18, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Education}

Author, CEO of Sinovation Ventures, and former head of Google China, Kai-Fu Lee, shared with COSM 2021 his predictions for the future of AI. His presentation drew from his book AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future, co-authored with prominent science fiction writer Chen Quifan. AI 2041 offers seven short stories that explore the ethical and societal implications of machine-learning technologies on various industries, such as manufacturing, art, and education. The last three chapters address potential societal and geopolitical issues raised by artificial intelligence. Each short story includes an “analysis” section, authored by Lee, which delves into the issues raised by the story and its characters. Lee and Chen are techno-optimists. They recognize the benefits of innovative technologies while acknowledging Read More ›

Red Pill Blue Pill concept. The right choice the concept of the movie matrix. The choice of tablets

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Gary Varner
Date
December 18, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy of Mind, Relationships

Tagged
Agent Smith (character in Matrix series), Featured, Matrix Revolutions (film 2003), Neo (character in Matrix), Trinity (character in Matrix)}

The Matrix Trilogy: Some Final Thoughts

_{I enjoyed the films and am looking forward to the Matrix Resurrections but there are some things I need to say as a reviewer} _{Gary Varner
December 18, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy of Mind, Relationships}

While waiting for The Matrix: Resurrections, December 22: I admit, I’ve given this trilogy a hard time. But I do actually enjoy the films… when I’m not thinking about them. There are some good elements, and I want to point those out before going further. First of all, the relationship between Neo and Trinity is solid. It develops with the trilogy and we don’t have to suffer through a bunch of “will they?/won’t they?” tropes. A viewer can get invested in their relationship, so it hurts when Trinity dies. I appreciate any film where this risk is taken, instead of breaking up the characters and then getting them back together just so the writers don’t have to show the relationship’s Read More ›

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News
Date
December 14, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Global Technology

Tagged
Andrew McDiarmid, Erik Larson, Featured, GPT3, Jaron Lanier}

Understanding the de Facto Cold War With China

_{High tech is currently a battlefield between freedom and totalitarianism} _{News
December 14, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Global Technology}

In “Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation” (podcast episode 163), Andrew McDiarmid interviewed Erik J. Larson, programmer and author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard University Press, 2021) on the wrong path he thinks some analysts are taking in terms of what machines can and can’t do. Plus they discussed Alan Turing’s change of heart. Then they looked at the critical fact that Big Data can easily be the enemy of new ideas. And now, the future …? https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/34ce0d74-aa74-4ad9-9599-e9ddf2be56a7-Mind-Matters-News-Episode-163-Erik-Larson-.mp3 This portion begins at roughly 38:23 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. They began with: How do we determine that we are not simply manipulated by social media? Larson recommended a book by computer scientist Read More ›

Analytics data big business intelligence background bi

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News
Date
December 10, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence

Tagged
Andrew McDiarmid, Eric J. Larson}

Why Big Data Can Be the Enemy of New Ideas

_{Copernicus could tell us how that works: Masses of documentation entrench the old ideas} _{News
December 10, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence}

In “Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation” (podcast episode 163), Andrew McDiarmid interviewed Erik J. Larson, programmer and author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard University Press, 2021) on the wrong path in terms of what machines can and can’t do. Now they look at the critical fact that Big Data can easily be the enemy of new ideas. https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/34ce0d74-aa74-4ad9-9599-e9ddf2be56a7-Mind-Matters-News-Episode-163-Erik-Larson-.mp3 This portion begins at roughly 30:00 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Andrew McDiarmid: Are there lessons about the ethics of innovation from the past that would be useful to us today? Can you think of anything they learned about innovation in the past that we could really learn from as we’re innovating today? Read More ›

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News
Date
December 8, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Andrew McDiarmid, Erik Larson, Featured, Myth of Artificial Intelligence (book)}

Did Alan Turing’s Change of Heart Set AI on the Wrong Path?

_{Erik Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, thinks Turing lost track of one really important way minds differ from machines} _{News
December 8, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy of Mind}

In the earlier part of this episode of “Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation” (podcast episode 163), Andrew McDiarmid interviewed Erik J. Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence (Harvard University Press, 2021) discussed the big switch in computer science, roughly around 2000, from deductive to inductive logic — because Big Data made inductive logic more productive. Now they look at what machines still can’t do: This portion begins at about 12:39 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Andrew McDiarmid: I found some of your podcasts on the web and in one of them you say, “I don’t know what a mind is, but I know what a machine is.” So how does that Read More ›

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News
Date
December 7, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Global Technology, Machine Learning, Philosophy

Tagged
Andrew McDiarmid, Erik Larson, Featured}

How AI Changed — in a Very Big Way — Around the Year 2000

_{With the advent of huge amounts of data, AI companies switched from using deductive logic to inductive logic} _{News
December 7, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Business and Finance, Global Technology, Machine Learning, Philosophy}

In “Hyping Artificial Intelligence Hinders Innovation” (podcast episode 163), Andrew McDiarmid interviewed Erik J. Larson, author of The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do (2021) (Harvard University Press, 2021) on the way “Machines will RULE!” hype discredits — and distracts attention from — actual progress in AI. Erik Larson has founded two two DARPA-funded artificial intelligence startups. Inthe book he urges us to go back to the drawing board with AI research and development. https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/34ce0d74-aa74-4ad9-9599-e9ddf2be56a7-Mind-Matters-News-Episode-163-Erik-Larson-.mp3 This portion begins at 01:59 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Andrew McDiarmid: Can you paint a picture first for us of what the AI landscape looks like today and why it’s not Read More ›

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Gary Varner
Date
December 4, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture

Tagged
Matrix Revolutions (film 2003), Neo (character in Matrix), Science fiction, Trinity (character in Matrix)}

The Matrix Revolutions (2003) Spins Out of Control

_{In Part I of this review of the third film in The Matrix trilogy — anticipating The Matrix: Resurrections (December 22) — we bring you up to date on the story} _{Gary Varner
December 4, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture}

Recently, I’ve been reviewing — and reminiscing, if you like — The Matrix (1999) and The Matrix Reloaded (2003). After all, The Matrix: Resurrections opens December 22. Although I find the plots disjointed so far, I can at least provide you with a cheat sheet for what happened earlier. Now let’s see what happens in the third film in the turn-of-the-millennium trilogy, The Matrix Revolutions (2003). Alas, the confusion continues. The movie opens with our lead characters discovering that Neo is not in a coma after all but has been taken to a zone between the Matrix and the real world; think digital purgatory. How does this happen? We don’t know. How can Neo be taken anywhere when he’s not Read More ›

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News
Date
December 1, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Programming

Tagged
Featured, Formula 409, Justin Bui, Robert J. Marks, Sam Haug, WD-40}

Iron Law of Complexity: Complexity Adds But Its Problems Multiply

_{That’s why more complexity doesn’t mean more things will go right; without planning, it means the exact opposite. The math is scary} _{News
December 1, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Programming}

In “Bad news for artificial general intelligence” (podcast Episode 160), Justin Bui and Sam Haug from Robert J. Marks’s research group at Baylor University joined him for a look at how AI can go wrong — whether it’s an inconsequential hot weather story or imminent nuclear doom. Now, in Episode 161, they start by unpacking the significance of an ominous fact: When we increase complexity by adding things, we multiply the chances of things going wrong. Never mind getting an advanced machine to solve all our problems; it can’t solve its own: A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Robert J. Marks: I recently vetoed a family member’s suggestion that we put a lock on our Read More ›

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Eric Holloway
Date
December 1, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Biology

Tagged
Featured}

Is the Age of the Living, Self-Replicating Robot at Hand? No.

_{Stem cells naturally reproduce themselves. The researchers working with frog stem cells merely found, via algorithms, one configuration that works better} _{Eric Holloway
December 1, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Biology}

Recently, the sci-fi dream of self-replicating robots has been in the news, thanks to the University of Vermont, Tufts University, and the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard. A recent experiment with frog cells was hailed by news outlets as disparate as CNN (“World’s first living robots can now reproduce, scientists say”) and Daily Wire (“American Universities Create First ‘Self-Replicating Living Robots’”). And it was also debunked by Ars Technica: (“Interesting research, but no, we don’t have living, reproducing robots”). So what’s really happening? Self-replication is a very tricky problem of information. To truly self-replicate, an organism must completely copy the information necessary for function. Seems simple enough but it introduces a conundrum. For the organism to copy Read More ›

iot smart automotive Driverless car with artificial intelligence combine with deep learning technology. self driving car can situational awareness around the car, letting it navigate itself 360 degree

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News
Date
November 29, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Programming

Tagged
Featured, IBM Watson (in medicine), Justin Bui, Paul Harvey, Robert J. Marks, samuel haug}

When AI Fails, the Results Are Sometimes Amusing. Sometimes Not.

_{Robert J. Marks, Justin Bui, and Samuel Haug examine five instances where AI went wrong, sometimes on the world stage} _{News
November 29, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Programming}

Even if artificial general intelligence (AGI) could be achieved, a problem looms: The more complex a system is, the more can go wrong. If a computer could really match human thinking, a great deal could go wrong. In “When AI goes wrong” (podcast 160), Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks is joined once again by members of his research group, Justin Bui and Samuel Haug, who is a PhD student in computer and electrical engineering. The topic is, what happens if AI starts behaving in bizarre and unpredictable ways? https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/f5d26d44-cb33-4736-bc75-f95bd8f3ae5f-Mind-Matters-Episode-160-Haug-and-Bui-Episode-2-rev1.mp3 A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Robert J. Marks: Okay. I want to start out with Paul Harvey’s The Rest of the Story. Either Read More ›

military robot and skulls of people. Dramatic apocalypse super realistic concept. Rise of the Machines. Dark future. 3d rendering.

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Gary Varner
Date
November 27, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy

Tagged
Science fiction}

The Matrix Reloaded (2003) Just Did Not Load Properly

_{Although the second part of the Matrix trilogy offers interesting ideas and exciting action, the confusing plot obscures the concepts it should explore} _{Gary Varner
November 27, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy}

What a mess of a story is The Matrix Reloaded (2003) — the second part of the Matrix (1999) trilogy, in which the world we know turns out to be a simulation created by AI intelligences. We met some of the characters in the first part, The Matrix (1999), reviewed here. But then what happened? First, we’re introduced to the new technician, Link, but no one explains where his predecessor Tank went. Then Zion (“the last human city, the only place we have left”) is introduced and there we find ourselves at the infamous Party Scene: To look at this techno-hedonistic rave, one might think we’ve entered volcano-challenged Pompeii of long ago. But this party is more reminiscent of the Read More ›

Young african male programmer writing program code sitting at the workplace with three monitors in the office. Image focused on the screen

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News
Date
November 26, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Sports

Tagged
Featured, Justin Bui, Robert J. Marks, transfer learning}

Have a Software Design Idea? Kaggle Could Help It Happen for Free

_{Okay, not exactly. You have to do the work. But maybe you don’t have to invent the software} _{News
November 26, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Sports}

In a recent Mind Matters podcast, “Artificial General Intelligence: the Modern Homunculus,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks, a computer engineering prof, spoke with Justin Bui from his own research group at Baylor University in Texas about what’s happening — and isn’t happening — in artificial intelligence today. The big story turned out to be all the free software you can use to advance your own projects. This time out, Dr. Bui focuses on what open source (free) Kaggle software can do for you, including competitons. Call it science non-fiction, if you like… https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/d4505b4a-de80-40ae-a56c-2636563f3453-Mind-Matters-Episode-159-Justin-Bui-Episode-1-rev1.mp3 This portion begins at 12:58 min. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Justin Bui: Kaggle is owned by Google; I Read More ›

Chinese flag and big brother data surveillance

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News
Date
November 26, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
Communism, COSM}

On What Terms Is Co-Operation Between the US and China Possible?

_{China analyst Miles Maochun Yu thinks that China’s new goal is to become the new global power first, then implement its ideology} _{News
November 26, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, Global Technology, Surveillance, Technocracy}

A panel at COSM 2021 aired a disagreement between philosopher of technology George Gilder and political analyst Newt Gingrich. Gingrich argued that China is the greatest threat to global freedom while Gilder felt that claims about forced labor, for example, are overstated and that we must co-operate with China for technological advances. In the background is China’s 24/7 surveillance of the entire population, the door-to-door identification of and crackdown on religious believers, as well as on civil rights activists. The situation in China has changed a great deal over the past half decade which marked the Uyghur internment camps and the premature takeover of Hong Kong. As Michael Schuman puts it: China today is in the grip of the most Read More ›

Two female programmers working on new project.They working late at night at the office.

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News
Date
November 25, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Tagged
Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), fast.AI, Featured, Homunculus, Justin Bui, Robert J. Marks, TensorFlow}

If Not Hal or Skynet, What’s Really Happening in AI Today?

_{Justin Bui talks with Robert J. Marks about the remarkable AI software resources that are free to download and use} _{News
November 25, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning}

In a recent Mind Matters podcast, “Artificial General Intelligence: the Modern Homunculus,” Walter Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks, a and computer engineering prof, spoke with Justin Bui from his own research group at Baylor University in Texas on what is — and isn’t — really happening in artificial intelligence today. Some of the more far-fetched claims remind Dr. Marks of the homunculus, the “little man” of alchemy. So what are the AI engineers really doing and how do they do it? Call it science non-fiction, if you like… https://episodes.castos.com/mindmatters/d4505b4a-de80-40ae-a56c-2636563f3453-Mind-Matters-Episode-159-Justin-Bui-Episode-1-rev1.mp3 This portion begins at 00:44 sec. A partial transcript and notes, Show Notes, and Additional Resources follow. Robert J. Marks: Isaac Newton was the genius who founded classical physics. He Read More ›

Supermassive extraterrestrial life form in outer space, dark red planet in twisted galaxy

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News
Date
November 21, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Religion, Science

Tagged
Avi Loeb (on Galileo Project), Galileo Project}

Astronomer: Hunt for ET Can Unify Science and Religion

_{Avi Loeb told The Hill that the Galileo Project, which looks for physical evidence of extraterrestrials, could answer religious questions as well as science ones} _{News
November 21, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Religion, Science}

Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb, spoke at a recent Ignatius Forum on his differences with “the scientific mainstream” about the evidence for extraterrestrial life. Perhaps in part because the venue was the Washington National Cathedral, Loeb felt motivated to reflect on the religious as well as the science implications of a search for extraterrestrial life. As a member of Harvard University’s Galileo Project which seeks to “bring the search for extraterrestrial technological signatures of Extraterrestrial Technological Civilizations (ETCs) from accidental or anecdotal observations and legends into the mainstream of transparent, validated and systematic scientific research,” he shared his thoughts with The Hill, which covers the U.S. Congress: In finding advanced extraterrestrial intelligence, religion might simply reflect advanced science with a twist. Read More ›

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News
Date
November 20, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Medicine (artificial intelligence in medicine)}

The (Virtual) Doctor Will See You Now — Sci-fi Saturday

_{A lonely middle-aged man experiences a future where medicine works correctly but the human dimension has ceased to exist} _{News
November 20, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Medicine and Health}

“Instant Doctor” (2020) by Diogo Gameiro (uploaded at DUST , 6:25 min) Did you ever wonder what will the future of health-care hold? How will advances in medical A.I. change our lives? Will algorithms eclipse doctors entirely? We hope not. Instant Doctor is a short film to show appreciation for doctors and health-care human workers everywhere. Review: In a futuristic subway station surrounded by the latest tech, gadgets, and gizmos, a middle-aged man (Fernando Alves Pinto) is all alone, suffering a troublesome respiratory problem. The last train is leaving in eight minutes but he decides to goes into a digital instant AI doctor cubicle — surreally represented. In an interesting detail, he pays digitally in bitcoins. Not to spoil too Read More ›

Spaceship leaving Earth for interstellar deep space travel

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News
Date
November 20, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Science

Tagged
Adam Frank, Interstellar travel, Wormholes}

Interstellar Travel: The Four Top Technologies for Getting There

_{Astrophysicist Adam Frank looks at the technologies we meet in science fiction and identifies the challenges that hold them back} _{News
November 20, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Science}

University of Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank looks at the possibilities of interstellar travel, given the “insane scale” of the distances between stars and galaxies, in relation to space exploration, whether by ourselves or by intelligent extraterrestrials. Science fiction usually starts with the assumption that the distance problem is somehow already solved. What real-world proposals are out there now for solving it? At Big Think, Frank offers four: Cryosleep, solar sails (or light sails), wormholes, and warp drives. Cautioning that they may all be pipe dreams, he offers some thoughts. Possibly the most intriguing is cryosleep: Cryosleep technology would basically “freeze” the body’s metabolism (or at least slow it down) for the duration of the journey. Despite being a staple of Read More ›

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Gary Varner
Date
November 20, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy

Tagged
Matrix Resurrections (film), Matrix Trilogy (films), Science fiction}

Will The Matrix Resurrections (Drops December 22) Break the Mold?

_{The culturally influential trilogy (control by evil aliens) enjoys a fascinating beginning — but a thud! ending} _{Gary Varner
November 20, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Arts & Culture, Philosophy}

The Matrix trilogy is famous for starting strong, then falling apart by the end. Will this happen again? We’ll see. After eleven years, the Matrix Resurrections comes out December 22, 2021. Now is the perfect time to look back at the original trilogy, starting with the first film, The Matrix (1999). The Matrix series begins by following a computer hacker named Neo, who is led by a beautiful stranger into a forbidding underworld. There, “he discovers the shocking truth — the life he knows is the elaborate deception of an evil cyber-intelligence.” He had been searching for the mysterious Morpheus who defends a human civilization from attack by machines. Neo is horrified to discover from him that not only is Read More ›

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News
Date
November 18, 2021

Categorized
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics

Tagged
George D. Montanez}

Can a Robot Be Programmed To Detect a Trap?

_{A team led by a Harvey Mudd professor programmed some digital gophers to spot possible traps while seeking food — and some without that ability} _{News
November 18, 2021

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Artificial Intelligence, Robotics}

One issue in robotics is enabling the robot to detect danger. That’s harder than it might seem; it involves evaluating uncertainties. In their open access paper, a Harvey Mudd College research group describes the situation in dramatic terms by asking readers to picture a dilemma: Imagine a wealthy individual has announced they have hidden a large sum of money in an abandoned mine. You feel particularly adventurous and visit the mine in search of treasure. Approaching one of the mine’s many entrances, your excitement plummets as you notice the hazardous conditions. The precarious wooden floor planks separating you from a 50-foot drop are worn and rotted. Trails of crumbling rock intermittently fall from the roof and walls, indicating a potential Read More ›