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 […]
Posted in Semantic Web, ArtificialIntelligence, workfriendly on Aug 18th, 2006 1 Comment »
This is old news but I’ve only just noticed that Numenta have released their whitepaper about HTM (called Hierarchical Temporal Memory - Concepts, Theory, and Terminology). Numenta is the company that Jeff Hawkins formed with Dileep and others to create products around the ideas in his ‘On Intelligence‘ book.
In short: Hawkins believes he’s got a […]
Posted in General, ArtificialIntelligence on Jan 20th, 2006 1 Comment »
Just finished reading ‘On intelligence’ by Jeff Hawkins, which I really enjoyed.
Hawkins is the entrepreneur responsible for inventing the palmpilot and handsprung treo among other things, but his primary interest is brains and discovering how they work. To further this interest he has spent a load of his entrepenurial cash creating a neural science research […]
