I don’t care that it’s Star Wars oriented – playing music with a floppy drive is awesome. Can we top that? Wouldn’t know how to measure it, but click through to hear the floppy drive, a singing scanner and a whole band played with a HDD.
Director & 3D animator Neill Blomkamp was attached to directing the adapatation of the videogame Halo in 2007, but the project unfortunately appears to be canned. I say unfortunately because a short film like the one below called Alive in Joburg convincingly implies that Blomkamp was well suited to the task.
Last month I invited readers to apply for invitations to Twine.com, one of the major players in this first wave of semantic web applications. Twine is still in a private, invitation only beta; meaning it’s an incomplete product under heavy development (Twine intro). Due to this I set some conditions for invitees last time. But as promised, here’s the second round of invitations — this time unconditional (I know you’re all ‘telligent and enthusiastic).
Simply leave a short comment on this post if you’re interested in giving Twine a spin. An invitation will be sent to the email address you specify in the comment’s field.
Yesterday, Telstra chief technology officer Dr. Hugh Bradlow hosted the Adelaine conference as a hologram. Positioned 725km away in Telstra’s Melbourne office, his image was projected in high definition onto a transparent screen.
Following up on my writings about a Second Life Client for mobile phones being developed by Vollee — a company specializing in bringing full-blown PC games to mobile phones by using the company’s machines for heavy processing and then streaming the result to handsets.
I exchanged emails with Julian Corbett, head of Business Development at Vollee, who revealed that the Mobile Second Life Client (SL) would not be limited to 3G but that Wi-Fi connectivity would also be enabled. This begged three additional questions which were courteously answered by Corbett.
In short, the following was clarified:
I just added a few paragraphs to the artificial creativity page, on anthropocentric approaches to creativity. If you have a look at the Wikipedia page for artificial creativity you’ll notice that it doesn’t make a distinction between anthropocentric approaches and others. That’s because the entire article is anthropocentric. For your consideration.
Powerset went live today with the fruit of several months of research on natural language processing and semantics. They’ve been highly anticipated and the ride to this day has been up and down. I joined their private beta late last year and at the time there were many things unperfected; the whole venture suffering for it at the hands of critics. And high expectations are often the case when products pack more intelligence.
But it certainly looks like they’ve made significant advances judging from some test queries.
A few weeks ago the book Intelligent Complex Adaptive Systems (ICAS) was published.
Chapter V, titled Emergence of Creativity: A Simulation Approach, presents my latest research on the emergence of creativity in natural and artificial organisms, a theory of its origins and potential grounds for future artificial implementations. The book is distributed internationally.
For a Friday funny video we feature a 70s USA advertisement for Bionic Woman dolls and the Bionic Beauty Salon. Enjoy your Bionic woman and the knob-controlled “Beauty” parameter.
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