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The machine that invents
St. Louis Post-Dispatch ^
| 01/25/2004
| By Tina Hesman
Posted on 01/26/2004 7:20:12 PM PST by Momaw Nadon
Edited on 05/11/2004 5:35:51 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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Technically, Stephen Thaler has written more music than any composer in the world. He also invented the Oral-B CrossAction toothbrush and devices that search the Internet for messages from terrorists. He has discovered substances harder than diamonds, coined 1.5 million new English words, and trained robotic cockroaches. Technically.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Technical; Unclassified
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FYI and discussion
To: RightWingAtheist; Doctor Stochastic; PatrickHenry; RadioAstronomer; tortoise
Ping!
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posted on
01/26/2004 7:36:04 PM PST
by
Momaw Nadon
(Goals for 2004: Re-elect President Bush, over 60 Republicans in the Senate, and a Republican House.)
To: Momaw Nadon
Here is a
link to an Optical Character Recognition neural network demo I wrote a long time ago.
The mathematics is all there.
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posted on
01/26/2004 7:38:03 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Drug prohibition laws help fund terrorism.)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
fascinating.... sell those at Wal-Mart??
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posted on
01/26/2004 7:42:45 PM PST
by
GeronL
(miss me?? I've been gone... you mean you didn't even notice?? wwaaaaaaaaaaa!!!)
To: Momaw Nadon
Son of a gun! What will we, no, the machine, think up next?
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posted on
01/26/2004 7:44:12 PM PST
by
hershey
To: Momaw Nadon
"I can never imagine a world that looks like 'Terminator.' What do people want? Food. Land. Mates. Machines aren't interested in that," Thaler said.That's exactaly the fear. I machine that can think like us but has none of the weaknesses that we have. Talk about a "Terminator."
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posted on
01/26/2004 7:44:16 PM PST
by
Only1choice____Freedom
(The word system implies they have done something the same way at least twice)
To: Momaw Nadon
Interesting.
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posted on
01/26/2004 7:47:30 PM PST
by
capydick
("The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States, and war is what they got.")
To: BartMan1; Nailbiter
... ping ...
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posted on
01/26/2004 7:54:32 PM PST
by
IncPen
( What does it avail a man to gain a fortune and lose his soul?)
To: hershey
What will we, no, the machine, think up next? The democrats have gotten their hands on it. It has been programmed to make everything bad in the universe get blamed on George W. Bush, and everything good in the universe seem bad, and Bush gets blamed for that as well.
q. Great economy.
a. No jobs.
q. Defeated Saddam in one of the greatest military efforts in history.
a. Bush lied about reasons for war.
q. Tax cuts have spurred growth.
a. Tax cuts only help rich.
q. Bush's pro-life stance is an inspiration.
a. Bush bad. Killing babies good.
(Apparently, the machine was programmed linguistically by a Navajo or an Apache.)
To: Momaw Nadon
Harder than diamonds? Nah..
To: staytrue
Thought this would interest you.
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posted on
01/26/2004 8:37:32 PM PST
by
BillF
(Fight terrorists in Iraq & elsewhere, instead of waiting for them to come to America!)
To: Momaw Nadon
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/ai/creativity.jsp This creativity machine is old news and is not as dramatic as the journalist's sensationalism conveys.
It is a random combination generator with a programmed filter to weed out outrageous combinations. Still, the human inventor determines what is usable and not. These have been around for years, according to the New Scientist article.
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posted on
01/26/2004 8:41:59 PM PST
by
Loc123
To: Momaw Nadon
I also like the perfucntory and biased rebuttal: but humans can still dance! He who reaps the strawman, sows a strawman.
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posted on
01/26/2004 8:44:39 PM PST
by
Loc123
To: Momaw Nadon
Note that a randomly driven copmuter can compute no more functions than a deterministic one. It can compute them in a different order.
If directional hardness matters, I would think that graphite would be hard in the chicken-wire plane but soft normal to the plane.
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posted on
01/26/2004 8:47:16 PM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: Momaw Nadon
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posted on
01/26/2004 8:47:59 PM PST
by
M Kehoe
To: Momaw Nadon
Thanks! Great, fascinating stuff!
To: Momaw Nadon
A breeder machine.
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posted on
01/26/2004 8:50:49 PM PST
by
Consort
To: All
Big deal! I built one of these AI synaptic-deranged robots and what did I get for my troubles? Sure at first the little suck-up brown noser did my bidding cooking supper and waxing the car, but soon he was lapping up my imported beer and calling the phone-sex hotlines behind my back! Can't trust them. No more free-thinking robots for me. Am I wrong?
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posted on
01/26/2004 8:51:44 PM PST
by
BipolarBob
(The voices in my head are starting to sound like Howard Dean YEEEAAAAGH)
To: Last Dakotan
"Borazon scratches diamonds and remains hard at temperatures at which diamond burns readily," per GE.
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posted on
01/26/2004 8:56:04 PM PST
by
Consort
To: All
Did anyone else here ever read the story "How-2" by Clifford Simak?
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