It’s all about bots this week for me! My mind had already been going down this track for a month or so when low and behold Wired runs an article in the magazine about SmarterChild — a bot I’ve been playing with quite a bit. While investigating the matter I also stumbled across this article…

In this article, “Fooled by a chatbot” the author discusses the fact that chatbots remain an interesting study for AI because people aren’t always using the maximum of their intelligence and that chatbots can pass a Turing Test in which the participants aren’t “on guard”…

Do me a favor and check out a site called Heavy.com. For all that I have seen in the discussions of Exploding TV, sites like Heavy.com seem to have been left out of the conversation. And yet, as far as I am concerned, they are at the head of the revolution. Here are three…

A recent discussion was sparked by Bill Gates’ use of the word “communist” to describe people who want to see a change in the way copyright works — namely the folks at creative commons who like to give artists the power to put their work in the public…

I just clicked on the umpteenth link to Yahoo News from David Devitry’s blog and got a “Document Not Found” page. It bothers me that there are facts in the news that vanish like that. For one, it feels like evidence that our society…

Yesterday’s post mentioned that I found this article (OpenP2P.com: Is Jabber’s Chatbot the Command Line of the Future?) on O’reilly right after discussing how I thought chatbots could become highly useful interfaces.

Advertising Age named Crispin “Agency of the Year” this week. *YAWN*. Considering the fact that I think advertising is a dying animal I wouldn’t normally be too concerned about this particular announcement — except for the fact that Crispin is apparently responsible for just about…