“Siri grew out of a huge project inside the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa), those people who previously gave you the internet and, more recently, a scheme to encourage people to develop driverless cars. Siri’s parent project, called Calo (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes) had $200m of funding and was the US’s [...]
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Siri was a DARPA project
Posted by Eric on November 26th, 2011
Posted in AI, available for purchase, DARPA, domestic, pop culture 
Tags: AI, apple, calo, DARPA, iphone, siri 
No Comments »Supercomputer endowed with linguistic algorithms answers humans’ questions in realtime
Posted by Eric on June 18th, 2010
IBM’s “WATSON” has encyclopedic knowledge and is being taught the nuances of English to the point that it can immediately interpret a question and answer it in a format consistent with the question. It sounds easy enough, every robot from every science fiction tv show for the past 60 years was able to respond [...]
Posted in AI, computers, education, entertainment, pop culture, video Tags: AI, conversation, IBM, linquistic, supercomputer, WATSON No Comments »“Real Steel” robot gladiator movie coming in 2011
Posted by Eric on June 15th, 2010
“Hugh Jackman is to play an ex-fighter who becomes a promoter when human boxing is outlawed for being too violent. The new gladiators are 2,000-pound robots with human qualities” The plot looks a bit thin, but hey, fighting robots, how bad could it be? What’s that you say? Michael Bay? Oh yeah, my bad. But [...]
Fantastic Robots in History
Posted by Eric on June 9th, 2010
A look at the origin and history of robots, at [retroliciousdesigns]
Tetra Vaal (Third World Robocop)
Posted by Eric on June 3rd, 2010
This video features a newly developed robotic cop patrolling the streets of Johannesburg, South Africa. Well, not really. This is actually a spec corporate video created by Neill Blomkamp for a fictional company named Tetra Vaal in 2004. (Before Blomkamp was famous for directing the incredible “District 9″ movie.)
Posted in biped, defense, military / law enforcement, pop culture, video Tags: blomkamp, district 9, joburg, police, robot, tetra vaal No Comments »
