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We Might Be Robots

“All the best minds used to think the world was flat. But what if it isn’t? It might be round. And bread mold might be medicine. If we never looked at things and thought of what might be, why we'd all still be out there in the tall grass with the apes.” —Justin Playfair/Sherlock Holmes in They Might be Giants

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Robot News

The New York Times has a new article today (catch it while it's still hot!) called "Brainy Robots Start Stepping Into Daily Life." The article reports that an "A.I. Spring" is now in progress, with business applications of Artificial Intelligence becoming much more feasible and therefore successful. A.I. is one of those areas that has always overpromised and underdelivered, so I'll believe it when I see it ...

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