#man vs computer

It seems grossly unfair to me that every browser I use, every software program comes with a ‘settings’ button whereby you can make all sorts of choices regarding how you want the program to act in certain circumstances.  You can set it to dim the screen at night, to automatically save your work, how it appears in terms of colour, font, etc.  So … why doesn’t the human body have a ‘settings’…

Artificial Intelligence? No Thanks

Question for you:  Why do you write a blog?  No, it’s not a trick question … you’ll understand in just a minute. To answer my own question, I write my posts mainly because I think I have something to say.  Others might disagree with that, but that’s okay … enough people read my posts to make me want to keep writing.  We all, I think, have something to say that is important to some people, and…

From the NYTimes, a fascinating exercise in which you get to choose what type of computer you play against (a novice, which learns the rules as you go along or a veteran, which has already gathered data from thousands of players). This could be a bit scary, mind you, as it may give you some foray into how powerful computers become just by functioning as vessels of data with the ability to process logic.