This is an old (If You Liked This, You’re Sure to Love That, Nov ‘08) but good article from the New York Times that I read parts of online, but just read in its entirety in the NYT print version. Very interesting discussion of the ability of computers to predict our movie preferences, especially in [...]
Category Archives: robots doing good
Bot-mediated reality
October 20, 2008 – 10:24 pm
Having just spent upwards of 25 hours in a car driving between Peterborough, Toronto, and Pukaskwa National Park, one of the ways we passed the time was listening to a variety of podcasts, including Philosophy Bites, CBC Ideas, and the Long Now Foundation’s Seminars About Long Term Thinking (SALT).
While SALT has hosted a bevy of [...]
Creepy female robot
July 31, 2008 – 9:02 pm
I had to put this one in “robots doing good” and “robots doing evil” because she’s helping sell sunscreen, which is good, but she’s really disturbing, which is bad.
Self-re-assembling robots – cue the Terminator references
May 1, 2008 – 8:35 pm
Modular robot reassembles when kicked apart
Nerdy and awesome