Math coprocessors, Datajacks, and Skill softs, oh my!

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/ai-overview.html

Thanks for posting this!
This was a fascinating read.

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Same Here !

could they be blocking non-US access?

heh, dug it out of the google cache:
http://74.125.77.132/search?q=cache:tqz6Fs...tml+ai-overview

and now that i see it, i recall reading some doubts about the project, as it would still hinge on a specific scientist, and his peculiar take on consciousness, or something like that...

I am in the US ;_;

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/ai-overview-1207.html

This one worked for me

ah, ok. looks like they moved the files around or something...

i'm not seeing where all the excitement is at

there's some guy saying "we're going to do it right this time, and accomplish in 5 years what we haven't been able to do in 5 decades", but he's not saying "and here's how we're going to do it."

or, in other words, "we're going to try stuff that we ignored before because it didn't look promising."
only this time, it's going to work out. just because we said so.

National Geographic has bionics as its cover story this month. Pretty neat, although nothing not already covered in Dumpshock posts.