Representations of AI in Popular Culture
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Ms. Dewey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaMs. Dewey was a viral marketing campaign started by Microsoft in October 2006. It also refers to the character of the same name, who is the campaign's main subject. The Ms. Dewey website was an Adobe Flash -based experimental interface for Live Search . The interface features a ...
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Future Watch: A.I. comes of ageAfter decades of limited application, artificial intelligence is everywhere. And it really works this time. January 26, 2009 (Computerworld) "Stair, please fetch the stapler from the lab," says the man seated at a conference room table. The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Robot, standing ...
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HAL's Pals: Top 10 Evil Computers | The Underwire from Wired.comIn Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, as soon-to-be starchild Dave Bowman unplugs the last bits of its massive cybernetic brain, the insane HAL 9000 computer sings its way to
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Evolution of BotsThis high gloss German commercial for Saturn cars is wonderful eye candy. Everything I've seen in technology convinces me that autonomous robots are an inevitability. And once launched, self-guided robots will no doubt "evolve" -- although not by natural selection.
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What Comes After Minds?The human mind is the most complex thing we know. We feel this intuitively. But complexity is hard to measure. The total number of cells in a human brain may be no more than those in a watermelon, yet the diversity and functions of those cells in the brain exceed those in a fruit. We can ...
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g-speak overview. Minority report user interface in action.radically condensed demonstration of oblong's g-speak spatial operating environment The most amazing technology demonstration I have seen in awhile. User interface of the Minority Report demonstrated in practice...
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CrunchGear » Archive » Oblong’s g-speak spatial operating interface brings Minority Report UI to lifeg-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo. After having seen the above video you will undoubtedly make direct comparisons to what was seen in ...
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Six Real Gadgets Minority Report Predicted Correctly | Gadget Lab from Wired.comThe future-predicting technology that drives the premise of the sci-fi blockbuster Minority Report is silly at best. And when the film hit theaters in 2002, the gadgets seemed pretty unrealistic,
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The Long Now Blog » Blog Archive » Bruce Sterling - “The Singularity: Your Future as a Black Hole”Singularity proponents, Sterling observed, are organized pretty much like virus writers—loose association, passionate focus, but basically gentle. (They’d be easily rounded up.) “They don’t have to work very hard because they are mesmerized by the autocatalyzing cascade effect. ‘Never mind ...
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