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Jeopardy, IBM’s Watson Supercomputer vs. Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter, Day 2
by Marshall Brain | February 16, 2011
In Day 2, Watson continues to dominate: Watson Cleans House On Day 2 Of ‘Jeopardy!’ Challenge Veteran “Jeopardy!” champs Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter scored only five correct responses between them during the “Double Jeopardy!” round that aired Tuesday. They ended this first game of a two-game match with paltry earnings of $2,400 and $5,400, [...]
Blow Your Mind: Children of Tomorrow, Raised by Machines
by Robert Lamb | February 15, 2011
Imagine a future where machines raise our infants and young people grow up in the embrace of a robotic nursemaid. It may sound far-fetched or even nightmarish, but this is where technology is headed.
In the latest episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Julie and I look at the current state of robotic babysitting and ponder just how the children of tomorrow will fare.
The following video offers 6 minutes of background, giving a quick tour of the Watson supercomputer before the game started. Then it shows 5 minutes of game play where Watson dominates the two human players: Here are statistics for the match: Watson Jeopardy Statistics Commentary: It’s Elementary, Dear Watson: Computers Win, Jeopardy! Viewers Lose As [...]
This video shows a armless person controlling a robotic replacement arm using wiring from his chest muscles. The level of control that he has is amazing compared to prior prosthetics: Amputees regain control with bionic arm wired to chest Jesse Sullivan, the man in this video, is using one of the most high-tech prosthetic arms [...]
Whether you’re a Valentine’s Day celebrant or a devout holdout to the red and pink onslaught, then this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind should do you right. Join Julie and me as we breakdown exactly what’s going on in the brain when we love someone (or something). We’ll ponder a future where beautiful robots serve as the objects of our affection. And what about that out saying about the thin line between love and hate? Any truth to that? As it turns out, these conflicting emotions share some of the same neural circuitry. Tune in to find out just what this means for our friends and enemies.
Blow Your Mind: Underground Robotic Highways
by Robert Lamb | February 3, 2011
Is your morning commute driving you crazy? Does the mere sight of an eight-lane highway kill your soul a little? Well what if we could just hand the wheel over to a flipping robot and bury the whole highway system 50 feet underground? That might sound a littlecrazy, but that’s the dream of the underground automated highway in a nutshell. Join Julie and I for the latest episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind and you’ll descend with us into the mole man-haunted future of America’s interstates.
It’s no secret I love Microsoft Kinect hacks — I’ve posted videos of some on here in previous blog entries. Now I’d like to include a pair I discovered while browsing other tech sites. The first I learned about on CNET. It’s a video of a Roomba robot following gesture commands given by a human using the Kinect device as a camera. Click through to see the video.
A scene from a movie in which robots show their power. The thing is, you have never seen powers like these. In fact, you have probably never imagined powers like these…. The creativity is impressive. The scene comes from the movie Endhiran. This is the trailer: [[[Jump to previous Funny...]]] If you would like to [...]
If you have a big sliding door in your house, along with kids and/or a dog, you know how quickly the glass can get dirty. The dog puts nose prints all over the glass, and kids put fingerprints over the nose prints. If you own a retail store, you know how often the glass – [...]
If you have ever looked at the prosthetic marketplace, you know that things like prosthetic arms are expensive. This page lays out the cost factor like this: Depending on the degree of amputation, today’s state of the art prosthetic arms can cost patients about $100,000 or more. DEKA’s goal is to keep the cost of [...]
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