Apr 1, 2008
Since early December 2007, a new author has been publishing articles on Think Artificial under my name. This author is not human, but intelligent software created by myself to relieve the pressure of regular posting. Currently, the system has posted over 20 articles without breaking cover.
Taking its cues from Google News Alerts on “robotics”, the system analyzes news articles — identifying and extracting relevant lines of text and generating a shorter version of the article. The text is then paraphrased using preset tunings to mimic my writing style. The ultimate result is an article that only needs my one-click administrator approval to be published.
Jan 27, 2008
As Think Artificial grows and garners exposure, there’ve unfortunately been incidents that convinced me that writing community guidelines is a good idea. The following few rules are mainly for new users (if you’ve been commenting here for a while without me bugging you, you can probably skip this.)
Jan 5, 2008
Ladies and gentlemen, put your 3D glasses on now. Finally, Think Artificial launches a custom design to go with the content. It took me time to get around to, but better late than never. Tailored to usher in tales from the future, from science fiction to science fact, this metamorphosis echoes ambition for the new year. And oh, does a side-by-side comparison make the last design look prehistoric. A dinosaur, and not the animatronic kind.
Dec 31, 2007
Two-thousand-and-seven was a fine year. On May 27th ThinkArtificial.org launched with a bang and naturally I’ve quite enjoyed the ride. We’ve talked about synthetic lifeforms, living spacedust, surprising ingenuity of AIBOs. But this is the last post for 2007 and in it we ponder peeking into the future.
Dec 23, 2007
Think Artificial will be undergoing a site update today. Some elements are expected to break, and the site will look strange. This post will be edited for news. Apologies for any inconvenience.
UPDATE: Major updating is complete, but work on the site will continue throughout the day. Expect new site features and functionality to pop up over the next few hours; and please be patient with any bugs or quirks — they will be ironed out over the next few days.
UPDATE 2: The recent lack of updates on TA has a reason: In my frenzy of updating I made the time to put together a long-awaited custom design for the site, which in parallel is draining time from writing. The design is well underway and will go live in early January!
Dec 18, 2007
The web has certainly been a nice treat. It’s too bad to see it go. The threat of history repeating itself with large multi-billion dollar corporations consuming a new and powerful medium is at our doorstep. This time at the expense of net neutrality. Such a trend’s not an evil conspiracy (not always, anyway), nor is it destined to suffer death-by-monetization. But it’s a threat that’s well worth attention. I received a beta invitation to the Space Collective today, where a nicely put-together video titled ‘Runaway Infrastructure’ caught my attention.
Dec 17, 2007
My writings can be found on sites other than this one. Content hunters are invited to read on for discussions about why people think it’s natural for us to have assumed that the Sun went round the Earth — and to view what’s probably the first Powers-of-ten type video, where we zoom from an atomic scale to the edges of galaxies.
Nov 26, 2007
When viewing single entries on the site you’ll probably notice that random images linked to posts now appear on the sidebar. This is a little experiment on my part, as I’m considering some options for a site overhaul I’m planning in the near future (more on that later). If you play around with this and encounter something bizarre (bug or otherwise), I’d appreciate it if you’d drop me a line.
Nov 18, 2007
I just got mail from the folks over at RedOrbit informing me that Think Artificial has been chosen as a Red Hot Blog of the Day. I had a quick look at some of the previous Red Hotties, which includes blogs like Neurophilosophy, The Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Seth Godin’s and Paul Stamatiou’s — which I’m pretty proud to share a place with on that list. Many thanks!
