artificial

I am about to do a sequel of sorts to one my early SkeptiCamp presentations; going into what an Intelligently Designed life form would actually look like, as opposed to the evolved life forms we are used to seeing. I wanted to cover the difference between what Creationists think artificial...

Breaking wind! Er, news! According to one of his staffers, Donald Trump thought that China had developed a hurricane gun to create storms and direct them at the U.S.A. Story here.

Is there something fundamentally different between artificial light, in its general and broadest sense, and natural light, or is light simply ... well, light?

No, not life as we know it, but a toy robot dinosaur (or Camarasaurus to be precise). It interacts with its environment, and its maker says it is the "the first truly autonomous life form capable of emotions that allow personal engagement". (Well, he has a toy to sell..... but he did invent...

My question is simple: What are the major differences between the photons emmited by the sun and those emmited by say a lamp? I know that if you go outside and place a magnifying lens over say a small stack of dried leaves, you can set them on fire by focusing the rays into one point on the...

Moral: Concerned with principles of right and wrong or conforming to standards of behavior and character based on those principles. Adhering to ethical and moral principles. Refers to what is judged as right, just, or good. ____ Can a machine be programmed with morals? Why or why not?

Greetings Fellow Colleagues I am pleased to announce the recently issued U.S. patent concerning ethical artificial intelligence entitled: Inductive Inference Affective Language Analyzer Simulating Artificial Intelligence (patent No. 6,587,846) by inventor/author John E. LaMuth M. S. As...

When I thought that all the possible absurdities had already been explored, suddenly I discover something that promises be a new "cult " as well as the "Face of Mars": the moon Iapetus. In the following link you will taste more than 7 extremely detailed pages that try to demonstrate that...

http://www.20q.net/ Can someone explain how this works while not using any jargon? It's a game based on 'neural networks' and is amazingly accurate at predicting what object you're thinking about with just a few questions.

Has artificial intelligence been discredited by Godel's incompleteness theorem? Hao Wang A logical journey: From Godel to philosophy, 1997 Godel's Incompleteness Theorem states that in any consistent formal system which is adequate for arithmetic there is a true but unprovable sentence...

Labs say they have nearly all the tools to make artificial life Now this is cool.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3207291.stm 'Bout time.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/11/031121071356.htm I'm not quite sure why they are calling this the first, other proteins have been designed in the past. Maybe it's because they started with a 'clean slate' rather than modify an existing natural protein, but I'm sure someone has made...

Scientists Create Artificial Form of Life Does this story have philosophical / religious implications beyond just science and technophobia?

How "Real" is artificial Intelligence?