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Transcendence and DARPA’s Restoring Active Memory
July 15, 2014 0

Transcendence and DARPA’s Restoring Active Memory

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Science Daily in its article, " DARPA taps Lawrence Livermore to develop world’s first neural device to restore memory ," reported: The research builds on the understanding that memory is a process in which neurons in certain regions of the brain encode information, store it and retrieve it. Certain types of illnesses and injuries, including Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy, disrupt this process and cause memory loss.

Computer Beats "Turing Test" Convincing Some Human Judges It’s Human
June 10, 2014 0

Computer Beats "Turing Test" Convincing Some Human Judges It’s Human

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The Guardian reports Computer Simulating 13-Year-Old Boy Becomes First to Pass Turing Test A "super computer" has duped humans into thinking it was a 13-year-old boy to become the first machine to pass the Turing test, experts have said. Five machines were tested at the Royal Society in central London to see if they could fool people into thinking they were humans during text-based conversations. The test was devised in 1950 by computer science pioneer and second world war codebreaker Alan Turing, who said that if a machine was indistinguishable from a human, then it was "thinking".

The Reverse Ferret
March 27, 2014 0

The Reverse Ferret

By News Desk

— klimaretter.info (@wirklimaretter) March 27, 2014 Eli will be providing a translation of this article in a few minutes, but just to set the stage, let the Bunny translate the last paragraph which was an additional comment that Tol provided after the article appeared. P.