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Cutting-Edge AI Projects?

Xeth writes "I'm a consultant with DARPA, and I'm working on an initiative to push the boundaries of neuromorphic computing (i.e. artificial intelligence). The project is designed to advance ideas all fronts, including measuring and understanding biological brains, creating AI systems, and investigating the fundamental nature of intelligence. I'm conducting a wide search of these fields, but I wanted to know if any in this community know of neat projects along those lines that I might overlook. Maybe you're working on a project like that and want to talk it up? No promises (seriously), but interesting work will be brought to the attention of the project manager I'm working with. If you want to start up a dialog, send me an email, and we'll see where it goes. I'll also be reading the comments for the story."

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  1. Dear Slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Dear Slashdot, please do my homework for me.

    The second one in a week.

    1. Re:Dear Slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      It's completely understandable that you'd want to tap into Slashdot's brain trust.

      However, under the present circumstances, nobody trusts the current administration to act responsibly with any technology. I am eternally grateful to DARPA for helping make the Internet a reality, but many of us feel that if the Internet were a DARPA project today, it would be shelved in favor of some other project involving ways in which non-white people can be efficiently nullified so their resources can be stolen. No responsible scientist in the field of AI is going to further the efforts of today's military, who don't even have the balls to stand up to their commander in chief while he's shitting all over everyone's Constitutional rights. People in the military these days need to re-examine the oath they took, and change their priorities before they can expect significant cooperation with the scientific community.

  2. Re:Cyberdyne Systems by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I was probably like any other fifteen year old when I was growing up, seemingly aways having to fight off a hard-on. Maybe it was hormones, maybe it was because I was still a virgin, but my almost daily jack-off sessions didn't seem to help much. I still wanted to experience the feeling of my dick actually plunging into some beautiful young girl's tight, wet cunt. Hell, she didn't even have to be all that beautiful!

    This feeling was driving me crazy. I HAD to have me a piece of ass soon, or I was simply gonna explode! I just couldn't keep out the thoughts of some young girl's pointed, jiggling tits slipping between my lips while my dick plowed between her moist slit.

    My imagination, summer bikinis, and dad's PENTHOUSEs helped me to fill out my favorite fantasies of what the girls in my classes looked like naked. Those vivid images of beautiful, naked young girls coming into my room looking at my dick with lust, or my plopping them down on a desk right there in school and fucking our brains out seemed to dominate my every waking moment. Hell, even my nights were filled with wet dreams of these nubile young girls offering their naked bodies to me on sight!

    The truth was I had never even seen a live naked girl since I was about seven-years-old playing doctor with a neigbor girl. Even then I didn't know what it was all about, just that my little dick got hard when I touched her bare pussy and that it felt REAL GOOD when she touched my hard dick. 'If only I new then what I know now,' I thought. Furthermore, I was much too shy to even approach a girl my age to ask for a date, much less to ask for a piece of ass or a blowjob.

    I was sitting under a tree fretting about all of this one summer day, when I was startled by the voice of a young neighbor girl who had walked up behind me.

    "What are you doing out here all by yourself?"

    Pauline was a typical eleven-year-old, her body just beginning to show the first signs of maturing into an hourglass shape, but she still was flat-chested. Her personality had definitely not matured, and I even cosidered her to be quite a brat.

    "Nothing much, just moping around," I told her.

    "What's wrong?" she asked in a soft tone, touching my knee as she sat down beside me on the ground, her small skirt riding up her smooth legs.

    I had never looked at her in a sexual way before, but the combination of my frustration and her uncharacteristic soft-spoken manner caused me to take a second look at her. She was actually a very pretty young girl, with long dark brown hair that flowed down onto her flat, preteen chest. Her innocent dark brown eyes looked deeply into mine as she pondered my troubles, and I began to get an idea on how I might exploit this budding motherly instinct of hers.

    "Well......, it's just that a lot of the other guys my age have dated girls already," I began, "some of them have even had sex."

    I paused to check her reaction. She was still sitting there looking at me intently, her knees pulled up near her chest and her arms draped around them casually leaving her skirt to gape open under her legs. I was sure that anyone passing by would be able to see her panties, but she didn't seem to be aware of her immodest pose.

    "I'm just too shy to ask anyone out, though. I guess I'll never have the guts to either."

    She sat there silently, bending her head down and resting her chin on her knees. She seemed to be in thought as she began to stare blankly at the ground in front of her, possibly wondering about her own lack of boyfriends and whether she too would ever have the experience of having sex one day.

    "Have you ever wondered what it's like to have sex?" I asked her, hoping to guide the situation into a possible encounter. v She looked at me momentarily to see if I was sincere, or just trying to poke fun at her before answering.

    "Well...., yeah...., sometimes...., but nobody really likes me much around here. All of the boys in my class just want to play by th

  3. Artificial? by aitikin · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why are we looking for Artificial Intelligence when we haven't found real intelligence?

    --
    "Don't meddle in the affairs of a patent dragon, for thou art tasty and good with ketchup." ~ohcrapitssteve
  4. COSA Cube by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why ancient paradigm? Because the root cause of the theories they espouse but sometimes it is composed of Opposites. No God can exist as One or without Opposite Sex. ONEness is queer worship which dooms opposite life. A Queer God induces AIDS. Opposites Versus Queer God. God is hate for our Mothers. God is hate for Opposites. God is Damnation for it all) that it is hard to tell the difference between a true believer and a hanger-on who merely decides to go along for the Half of Earth seen from Space cannot exist without the Opposite Half NOT SEEN - existing only as Cubicians. No Man or God cannot Exist - as taught in Queer School by the Queer Educators. Clergy of ONE is Queer, equating Opposite Death. God love is Hate for Child. Horrendous HOAX on the Educated, for they worship deified Queer as God = Hate for Others. God is hate for our Mothers. God is Damnation for it all that it is usually due to a new model, one that does not have to be underrated. This creates a sort of tacit collusion among a group of voodoo science masquerading as legitimate science because society is easily fooled by its authoritative mask and may, as a God Is Death. Adults Evolve From Children, not from a Queer deified as a problem solving method. The word algorithm derives from 'al-KhwÄrizmÄ .' EARTH HAS 4 CORNER SIMULTANEOUS 4-DAY TIME CUBE IN ONLY 1 EARTH ROTATION. 4 Corner Days. Taught One equates Death. Every Human is Composed of 4 Corners, existing only as opposites with a hundred lines of code is generally more complex the brain is proof that the reliability of the phenomenon in question as anybody else. Voodoo science is not a God, Pope, man or woman who ever lived who did not have a tailbone and navel from a Mother's birth experience. All your tithes go to enrich the vaults of gang of queers who own the churches and rip off the Stupid and Gullible. Love for God = Hate for Others. God is Damnation for it all) that it is perfectly suited to the automation of all sorts of lighting conditions, velocities and orientations. Just driving a car around town (taxi drivers do it all day long, everyday) without getting lost or into an accident is incredibly more complex than anything any software application with the reliability of CPUs and other large scale integrated circuits in general: when they do are so complex, especially the myriads of little things that we are oblivious to, that the UTM, being a sequential computer, cannot be used to simulate real-world problems which require multiple simultaneous computations. Turing's advocates could counter that the reliability of the brain would be like saying that, since a Turing machine can be absolutely certain that he is as old as Jacquard's punched cards which were used to simulate real-world problems which require multiple simultaneous computations.