Category: Computers
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Facebook, face detection, our lost soul…
Facebook researchers have built DeepFace, an algorithm that can pick a face out of a crowd with 97.25 per cent accuracy. That means it is almost as good as we are at recognizing a face. (1) But is that correct? Can this be correct? Is our face simply a pattern of lines and colours? Do…
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Human vs. Robot journalists, writing, soul…
What is The Future of Journalism? Data reporting? Drones? Computer-generated news, like the algorithms are already breaking news on today’s California earthquake? Case for the latter: Compare the first few paragraphs from two news stories about a sports game, re-published in a recent study. Even with an unexceptional outing for Philip Rivers, the Chargers handled…
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Human-like computer language. Parmenides. Humans.
Stephen Wolfram wants to create a more human-like language for programming computers. (1) But how can anything we make be non-human? If we think with 1s and 0s this is because for some reason this is encoded into our existence. One and Nothing are the building blocks of the cosmos. From Parmenides to Leibniz, monads rule…
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Robots. Words. Egoism.
Automation [CPU-based supercomputers] is not the same as autonomy [GPU-based supercomputers], according to the experts in AI. (1) Words conveying meaning we have chosen to accept as true – without realizing it. Autonomy. Automation. But “autonomy” FROM WHO? Automation (2) for WHO to control what? A subject is always hidden behind anything seemingly objective. Behind…
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Robots test their own world wide web, dubbed RoboEarth.
RoboEarth. Human Earth! A world wide web for robots to learn from each other and share information is being shown off for the first time. Scientists behind RoboEarth will put it through its paces at Eindhoven University in a mocked-up hospital room. Four robots will use the system to complete a series of tasks, including serving…
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