Monthly Archives: December 2011
Blissful ignorance the key to machine intelligence?
A recent paper in Science reports an interesting experiment carried out at Princeton using fish and exploring the dynamics of crowd intelligence. Researchers used golden shiners, a strongly schooling fish. They trained a large number of groups to swim toward … Continue reading
Filed under Technologies
Sex with robots III: loving the mecha
Ovid, in his Metamorphoses, delivers us Pygmalion, the Cypriot sculptor who carves the ivory statue of a perfect woman. He names her Galatea, the “one as white as milk”. The statue is so life-like that Pygmalion falls in love with … Continue reading
Filed under Cultural roots, The Future
