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Robot Maker Builds Artificial Boy

(AP) Zeno, a robot boy creation by David Hanson makes one of his many expressive faces at Hanson's...
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RICHARDSON, Texas (AP) - David Hanson has two little Zenos to care for these days. There's his 18-month-old son Zeno, who prattles and smiles as he bounds through his father's cramped office. Then there's the robotic Zeno. It can't speak or walk yet, but has blinking eyes that can track people and a face that captivates with a range of expressions.

 

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http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070913/D8RKI2F80.html

 

 


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| Smarter-than-Human Intelligence & The Singularity Summit           |
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|   posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday September 09, @11:48 (Sci-Fi)       |
|   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/09/1420225              |
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[0]runamock writes "Brilliant technologists like [1]Ray Kurzweil and
[2]Rodney Brooks are gathering in San Francisco for [3]The Singularity
Summit. [4]The Singularity refers to the creation of smarter-than-human
intelligence beyond which the future becomes unpredictable. The concept
of the Singularity sounds more daunting in the form described by
statistician I.J Good in 1965: 'Let an ultra-intelligent machine be
defined as a machine that can far surpass all the intellectual activities
of any man however clever. Since the design of machines is one of these
intellectual activities, an ultra-intelligent machine could design even
better machines; there would then unquestionably be an 'intelligence
explosion,' and the intelligence of man would be left far behind. Thus
the first ultra-intelligent machine is the last invention that man need
ever make.'"

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Links:
    0. http://waziwazi.com/
    1. http://www.kurzweiltech.com/aboutray.html
    2. http://people.csail.mit.edu/brooks/
    3. http://www.singinst.org/summit2007/index.html
    4. http://www.singinst.org/overview/whatisthesingularity/