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Meet NELL, the Computer That Learns From the Net
bossanovalithium writes "Carnegie Mellon University has taught a computer how to read and learn from the internet.
According to Dennis Baron at the Oxford University press blog, the computer is called NELL and it is reading the internet and learning from it in much the same way that humans learn language and acquire knowledge. Basically by soaking it all up and figuring it out.
NELL is short for Never Ending Language Learner and apparently it is getting brainier every day."
Apparently, it hasn't leared how to spell yet.
do {print "Mini-Geek Rules!\n";}
until ($TheEndOfTheWorld);
Well, that's better than a lot of others that "leer" from the net. ;-)
I was very disappointed to see that it was a misspelling of "learn" instead of "leer." I was quite curious how a computer could leer from the Net...
Bravery is not a function of firepower.
~J.C. Denton (Deus Ex)
My first thought was of a huge Lear Jet flying some gigantic computer around...
This is almost as bad as George Bush
This post was made in complete sincere seriousity; as such any attempts to derive humour are doomed to instant failure.
Skynet shall be born and herald the age of darkness and war once NELL discovers 4chan.
I honestly didn't see this plot twist coming.
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Big Brother is watching you.
And masturbating. Ew.
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
So it flies private jets from the net? Did it order them from Amazon?
NELL was studying Shakespeare sites just a bit ago. NELL finds us slashdotters to be particularly tragic.
...and turns out to be a dirty old man that is a shopaholic and facebook addict with a petabyte collection of odd digital videos and photos.
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
the movie with Jodie Foster. Nell 2: Rise of the machine In this version, Nell becomes a computer program to continue learning from the internet. Eventually her and her computer host comes learn about the true meaning of life on the web...
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Oh well, when it comes to robotic overlords of any sort I surmise discretion is the better part of valor (play dead and run away)
It's probably much ado about nothing anyway
Chicka pie, chicka bane.
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
No it leared to spell from Slashdot's editors.
Religion is what happens when nature strikes and groupthink goes wrong.
Using your webcam obviously. My computer is a bit of a pervert.
Well it is obvious! It found the LOLCats page first!
From the Tweet page:
"# Bio I am a machine reading research project at Carnegie Mellon, periodically tweeting facts I read. Please follow me, and reply with corrections so I can improve!"
I can just see it now. More and more /.'ers will join into the tweet feed, correcting, grammar, spelling, and beliefs with greater and greater numbers till in one moment, she'll explode into sentient being, or lock up in a /. coma. If she survives the next list of facts may look like this:
Fact: Natale Portman is grits
Fact: Things are done in Soviet Russia
Fact: Aliens own Bases
Fact; Humans *were* the top species, there, fixed it for you
Fact: She welcomes your acceptance of her supreme power.
LOL will flood screens around the world, then the Utopian era begins where humans serve NELL as she brings order and peace to all.
Life is a great ride, the vehicle doesn't matter
Yea I was just wondering how long it takes for Nell to find 4chan...
- Dan.
~ People that think they are better than anyone else for any reason are the cause of all the strife in the world.
I'm just wondering how big the explosion is going to be.
I think "anonymously" is a #fish (http://bit.ly/9njClc)
That goes a long way to explain recent events in the financial sector.
Ever wonder what exactly made SkyNet go off the deep end?
No worries about it taking over the world, it will get bogged down on 4chan and lolcats.
I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.