Friday, April 18, 2008
I took a long sojourn into the history of interactive fiction (IF) with my launching pad being the stunning revelations unearthed by Andy Balo over at waxy in regards to the never-completed Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy text adventure sequel. But after reading that, and poking around the archives and playing a few great examples of IF, I started wondering why more hasn’t been done to advance the interface of these games? Why not incoporate more AI? Read more…
Friday, January 4, 2008
Dasher is a novel piece of software that lets you point at what you want to write. Honestly, it’s kind of difficult to describe without seeing the demonstration. It’s very novel and makes novel use of some simple AI. I wonder if Apple would ever integrate this in to the iPhone? And it would seem to be of great use were it to be integrated into eye tracking software.
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
So, I guess in light of the fact that the modus operandi for AI for the last 25 years is defunct we need another direction to head in. Of course there are your Jeff Hawkins who want to suggest pretty good theories for intelligence but let’s face it, he’s totally not in the club. Despite what he’s got to say, I think it’s high time we took a look at a really new way of generating intelligence—us!
Saturday, March 31, 2007
Hofstadter, Douglas Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid Basic Book, INC: New York, NY
This post is part of Banapana’s running bibliography.
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Thursday, January 18, 2007
Haugeland, John (Editor) Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology, and Artificial Intelligence The MIT Press: Boston, MA
- Searle’s Chinese Room
- Imagine a native English speaker who knows no Chinese locked in a room full of boxes of Chinese symbols (a data base) together with a book of instructions for manipulating the symbols (the program). Imagine that people outside the room send in other Chinese symbols which, unknown to the person in the room, are questions in Chinese (the input). And imagine that by following the instructions in the program the man in the room is able to pass out Chinese symbols which are correct answers to the questions (the output). The program enables the person in the room to pass the Turing Test for understanding Chinese but he does not understand a word of Chinese.
