The Robot-Readable World – Blog – BERG
Wonderful musings from Matt on meeting the emerging machine intelligence halfway.
Tags: intel
Op-Ed Contributor - Mind Over Mass Media - NYTimes.com
An excellent rebuttal by Steven Pinker to Nicholas Carr's usual trolling.
Stephen Fry
Stephen Fry is blogging. This makes me happy. All is well with the world.
Cleverest crows opt for two tools
Crows is smart. And yes, I am using the "Bookmark this..." link at the end of the article.
Co-evolution of neocortex size, group size and language in humans
The Dunbar number gets bandied about a lot in conversations about social networks these days. Here's the original paper that shows the research behind the oft-misused term.
Skeptic: The Magazine: Featured Article
A good, if somewhat dispiriting, overview of Artificial Intelligence. (There's some nice typesetting on this page)