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As a chess researcher (in human cognition), I once had dinner with Doug Hofstadter and he mentioned his ideas concerning how a chess program should play, like humans do. It has been my goal for over 5 years now, and it's really hard. I could show Doug's idea that "analogy lies at the core of perception (of any scenario, including chess) by making psychological experiments in all levels, from novices to grandmasters. That work came out in journals like Cognitive Science, Minds & Machines, and New Ideas in Psychology (accepted). So I think we're on the right track. But my paper on the computational model has been rejected three times, the last of which, fortunately, has good reports from referees who only want the piece to be rewritten.

I long for the day in which Hofstadter's ideas would become more mainstream in AI and cognitive science.

accidentally what?

Makes you wonder what a windows xp or vista kernel map would look like?

You mean like this?

hehehe what a prick. No, I'm not that guy. I do agree that many things have to be taken apart in order to do something new. But for me the lack of space is the dealbreaker. The Macbook Air is the one 2009 laptop you can't take your large collection of music, photos, or videos with. A netbook can do it, but not a $1700 machine?

Here's the white house plan.

Some time ago some researchers came out with a book which was supposed to be called "the end of intuition". The name of the book actually became "Supercrunchers", because people would click more on that ad than in the "end of intuition". I wondered why the final name shouldn't be "hot college lesbians".

The Eliza effect is so huge that any nice trick machines do seems to give us the immediate feeling that "It's alive!", and it has deep meaning.

Nonsense.

As a researcher of psychologically plausible AI models, I found the whole idea disgusting, and submitted a paper to a journal explaining why the whole thing is bogus.

Expect to see more of this overexcited nonsense in the future.

For those that insist the US is NOT in a recession, because numbers "never" lie, well, you are right. The real issue may NOT be a recession as technically defined. The real issue is that America in RELATION to the world is going down at a scary rate. Consider this quote: "OPEC could âoepotentially buy Bank of America in one month worth of production, Apple computers in a week and General Motors in just three days.â The dollar is in skydive, house prices are still skyhigh, oil is soaring, food is soaring, and other commodities are soaring. Soon we will be paying for getting oxygen back into this planet. It won't come cheap.