keep evolving

We've all heard of Moore's Law, which states that the number of transistors placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. Well, since this issue covers human computation, let's have a look at our own biological hardware. How are we doing compared to a previous model? Keep evolving, folks...

—James Stanier

Human Creativity in hardwares

You can't imagine how much I was excited when I saw this in ACM tech news. The title of this, is:

New Psychology Theory Enables Computers To Mimic Human Creativity at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute



Could you imagine a computer which is able to answer questions need creativity?
like this question:

A dealer in antique coins gets an offer to buy a beautiful bronze coin. The coin has an emperor’s head on one side and the date “544 B.C.” stamped on the other. The dealer examines the coin, but instead of buying it, he calls the police. Why?

Ron Sun and Sèbastien Hèlie in their recent paper (appeared in the July edition of Psychological Review) introduced “Explicit-Implicit Interaction Theory,”
Sun has developed CLARION computer program(like a cognitive system) based on this theory.
Comparing the performance of the CLARION model with results from previous human trials – including tests involving the coin question was amazing:

Clarion, answered these kinds of questions with a great accuracy correctly in several aspects of problem solving.

The researchers say the theory, which explains how humans solve problems creatively, could provide a blueprint to building AI systems that perform tasks like humans.

If you remember, one of my recent posts was about moral judgment: "killing one to save five". ClARION is a very useful software for simulating these kind of tasks, I can't wait to see the results. I am eager to know how much CLARION's moral judgment is like ours.

You can see the RPI news about this, here.

:) wireless technology and the future of birds

it's a bit freaky with this wireless technology!