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All Things Big and Small: The Brain’s Discerning Taste for Size

July 20, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

from Science Daily

ScienceDaily (June 20, 2012) — The human brain can recognize thousands of different objects, but neuroscientists have long grappled with how the brain organizes object representation; in other words, how the brain perceives and identifies different objects. Now researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences have discovered that the brain organizes objects based on their physical size, with a specific region of the brain reserved for recognizing large objects and another reserved for small objects.

Their findings, to be published in the June 21 issue of Neuron, could have major implications for fields like robotics, and could lead to a greater understanding of how the brain organizes and maps information. . . . Read Complete Report

Category: Advanced Science and Such, Robotics / Tags: , , , , ,

The Secret History Of Mind Control (full video)

June 19, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / 3 comments

A great video covering the history of mind control and who has used it over the years. . . EDITOR

from Forbidden Knowledge TV

Category: It's a Strange World After All / Tags: , ,

Artificial Intelligence Could Be on Brink of Passing Turing Test

May 15, 2012 / dgcrenshaw / No comments

from Wired Science

April 12, 2012 | 5:37 pm

One hundred years after Alan Turing was born, his eponymous test remains an elusive benchmark for artificial intelligence. Now, for the first time in decades, it’s possible to imagine a machine making the grade.

Turing was one of the 20th century’s great mathematicians, a conceptual architect of modern computing whose codebreaking played a decisive part in World War II. His test, described in a seminal dawn-of-the-computer-age paper, was deceptively simple: If a machine could pass for human in conversation, the machine could be considered intelligent.

Artificial intelligences are now ubiquitous, from GPS navigation systems and Google algorithms to automated customer service and Apple’s Siri, to say nothing of Deep Blue and Watson — but no machine has met Turing’s standard. The quest to do so, however, and the lines of research inspired by the general challenge of modeling human thought, have profoundly influenced both computer and cognitive science.

There is reason to believe that code kernels for the first Turing-intelligent machine have already been written. . . . Read Complete Report

Category: Robotics / Tags: , , , , ,
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