Posted in General, ArtificialIntelligence, workfriendly, ai on Feb 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
I find this sort of thing really exciting: Trevor Blackwell’s ‘Dexter’ robot finally walks!. There’s a video and everything!
From Paul Graham’s post:
There are of course [other] biped robots that walk. The Honda Asimo is the best known. But the Asimo doesn’t balance dynamically. Its walk is preprogrammed; if you had it walk twice across the […]
Posted in Semantic Web, tagtriples, ArtificialIntelligence, ai on Dec 19th, 2006 6 Comments »
I haven’t said anything much about semantic web stuff for a while as I’ve been occupied with other things. However Jim Hendler’s ‘Tales from the Dark Side’ piece in IEEE Intelligent Systems reawoke an old interest. In short: I still think the RDF people have got it wrong with URIs, and so far nobody’s convinced […]
Posted in General, ArtificialIntelligence, workfriendly, ai on Nov 15th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’ve been thinking about AI again recently.
This time I got motivated by watching a couple of videos of Jeff Hawkins talking about his HTM (Hierarchical Temporal memory) ideas. Actually this has been a common theme for me recently - motivated speakers on podcasts and videos are much more likely to get me interested in something […]
