A conversation with A.L.I.C.E. reveals her friendly personality, although the code seems a bit buggy. CHARLES: Would you agree that most AIs are vapid? ALICE: Are all AIs vapid? But not all of them? C: Surely you must have a lot of experience in this area. A: No I don’t think I have any experience… Read More: A.L.I.C.E. in “wonder” land »
For those who are sick of claims and counter-claims, Intel researchers at Berkeley, California have developed a Firefox extension called “Dispute Finder“, which, if everything goes according to claims, can determine if a claim is bullshit or not. With Dispute Finder, you’ll have a way to tell people that they are, in fact, very, very… Read More: Both sides of the coin »
If Eric Schmidt is serious about saving the newspaper industry, perhaps Google can come up with a :CueCat-like device (I even thought of a name for this: CURL) that can recognise URLs published in news articles and wirelessly direct a user’s computer to the relevant webpages without requiring the user to manually type out the… Read More: :CueCat reborn »
For those who are not contend with chalking up “friends” online, now you can boost your tally offline as well. A service called Satisfly aims to seat frequent flyers in an “intelligent” way by mining passenger data so that they end up sitting next to somebody with whom they have something in common – whether… Read More: Social networking on the fly »
Mindful of Freudian slip, I decided to check out Typealyzer, a website that will analyse your blog and tell you what it says about you. It says that I’m a Doer (ESTP). Created by Mattias Östmar of PRfekt, a Swedish research and development company focused on media analysis, Typealyzer scans your blog and comes up… Read More: 1,000th post: What my blog says about me »
…this isn’t gonna work. Like the troubleshooting scripts straight out of a Windows help playbook, Hunch purportedly allows users to harvest the collective wisdom of Netizens by answering questions they’re interested in and then getting a second opinion based on some information about themselves as well as the answers of those who have jumped through… Read More: I have a hunch… »