Posts Tagged ‘artificial intelligence’

We of bounded rationality

I came across a fascinating article at the Communications of the ACM site about negotiation agents.

Complex accounting is routing strategy. It’s here to stay.

[updated : 2009-12-19]
The only thing that’s interesting about the copenhagen climate summit is the strategies that nations employ to wriggle out of real and tangible cuts in emissions.
The interconnectedness of environmental and other systems on our planet has made us turn, naturally, to network theory for gaining useful insights. This is becoming more so with [...]

Not so fast, little internet…

Imagine that the ever-densifying network of devices that we know and love as the internet becomes sentient. Ish. Or aware or whatever:
Dangling upside down via an umbilicus to its humbler origins, and having its ass spanked by Lady The Phenomenon of Emergence herself, will the quasi-conscious intelligence that gulps down it’s first breath be a [...]

People augmenting machines : WIRED article misses the point.

Nosing through @tmbchr’s post on the WIRED post about humans augmenting AI, I have only 2 things to say:
1) humans being a helpful extension sounds like a nice idea… especially as presented in the article, but
2) Those “helpful” tasks stand a high chance of being crappy, drudge-filled exercises of boredom.
Picking out ‘what’s beautiful’ from a [...]

Let ’stupid’ handle it…

[updated 2009-10-31]
Have you ever had a customer service experience that left you completely, breathlessly in awe at the stupidity of all that transpired? Did you have to listen to a lot of circular non-reasoning, or worse – have to stare down a representative who seemed strangely incapable of initiating anything useful? Well then my friend, [...]

Why Cylons are stupid.

[updated 2009-07-12]
I was watching this show the other day on the history of science fiction, and I realised how enchanted we are with this idea of robots / machines getting stronger and smarter than us and ultimately kicking our collective asses. Hah! not gonna happen, and I can prove it with a little armchair [...]