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Category: Neurotech & Robotics
Student robot project answers a big question: Do robots prefer Pepsi or Coke?
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RoboGames
Category: Neurotech & Robotics
This past weekend I went to RoboGames. There were many squee moments (Plen was there! so cute! etc.), many pictures taken (which are trapped on my phone for the moment), and many things learned while wandering around among the room full of dads and their kids. Maybe the most...
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Just the FACT
Category: Psychology
Endel Tulving wrote this FACT, referring to 'The First Axiom of Consciousness and Thought' - 'If a thing is not alive, it cannot be conscious, nor can it think.' Read more, including criticism (sorta). Do you agree, or ...?...
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AI talking to AI
Category: AI
There are a number of Chatbots out there on the internet. Most of the new variety actually learn words and expressions as users spend time talking with them. The idea is to make them so advanced that they can actually fool people into thinking they are talking to another person...
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