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"Il réussit le test de Turing"

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Eugene – c’est son petit nom – a obtenu un score de 33% en moins de cinq minutes, devenant le premier programme informatique de l’histoire à réussir le test de Turing, conçu en 1950 et censé servir de référence pour distinguer les machines « capables de penser ».

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Même si Eugene marque une étape importante dans la conception d’une intelligence artificielle crédible, inutile de s’emballer : 67% des juges ont compris qu’Eugene était une machine.

▻http://rue89.nouvelobs.com/2014/06/09/eugene-a-13-ans-cochon-dinde-papa-gyneco-cest-robot-252791

Le test est mené par le prof. Kevin "cyborg" Warwick de l’université de Reading.
▻http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR583836.aspx

Ray Kurzweil doit être également ravi.

Le test original comme décrit par Turing en 1950 dans son papier « Computing Machinery and Intelligence » :
▻http://www.csee.umbc.edu/courses/471/papers/turing.pdf

Turing avait prédit que vers l"année 2000, des machines seraient capables de tromper 30% de juges humains lors d’un test de 5 minutes.

L’acteur Robert Llewellyn qui joue « Kryten » dans la série Red Dwarf fin des années ’80 était parmi les juges ayant été trompés. (6 fois sur 10)

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Le test a été organisé par Warwick le 7 juin pour fêter les 60 ans de la mort de Turing.

Pour ceux qui veulent essayer :

▻http://default-environment-sdqm3mrmp4.elasticbeanstalk.com

par contre :

Eugène : Where are you from ?
Moi : Reading
Eugène : Didn’t think that you can read. Fabulous !

FAIL

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New Scientist TV: See how Turing accidentally invented the computer
►http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/06/how-turing-accidentally-invented-the-computer.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=

See how Turing accidentally invented the computer

#animation #geekerie

New Scientist TV: Flying object propels itself by flipping inside out
►http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2012/04/flying-object-propels-itself-by-flipping-inside-out.html

It’s not a bird or a plane: it’s an unusual flying object that propels itself by flipping inside out. Created by engineers at Festo in Esslingen, Germany, the floating band filled with helium takes on different shapes while expanding and contracting to generate thrust and move through the air.

#ovni #cinetique #c_est_beau

Bye bye X-Men: bienvenue au recyclage neuronal.

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“If there is something next, some imminently arriving transformative development for human capabilities, then the key will not be improved genes or cortical plug-ins. But what other way forward could humans possibly have? With genetic and cyborg enhancement off the table for many years, it would seem we are presently stuck as-is, sans upgrades.

This mystery mechanism of human transformation is neuronal recycling, coined by neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene, wherein the brain’s innate capabilities are harnessed for altogether novel functions.

This view of the future of humankind is grounded in an appreciation of the biologically innate powers bestowed upon us by hundreds of millions of years of evolution.
(...)
Nevertheless, there is a very good reason to be optimistic that the next stage of human will come via the form of adaptive harnessing, rather than direct technological enhancement: It has already happened.
(...)
We Human 2.0’s have, among many powers, three that are central to who we take ourselves to be today: writing, speech, and music (the latter perhaps being the pinnacle of the arts). Yet these three capabilities, despite having all the hallmarks of design, were not a result of natural selection, nor were they the result of genetic engineering or cybernetic enhancement to our brains.

Instead, and as I argue in both The Vision Revolution and my forthcoming Harnessed, these are powers we acquired by virtue of harnessing, or neuronal recycling.
”
►http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/humans_version_3.0

►http://www.quora.com/What-is-Neuronal-Recycling

►http://www.changizi.com
►http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2009/11/how-our-brains-learned-to-read.html

►http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
►http://www.unicog.org/publications/Dehaene_VaticanChapter.pdf

►http://www.groupsrv.com/computers/about683192.html
►http://www.unicog.org/main/pages.php?page=Stanislas_Dehaene

Illusion de Hering:
►http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/ang_hering/index.html

#neurosciences #evolution #sciences

CultureLab : Designing a mushroom death suit
►http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/07/designing-a-mushroom-death-suit.html

Artist and inventor Jae Rhim Lee has come up with an unusual way to confront our attitudes about death. At the TEDGlobal conference last week, she talked to New Scientist about the flesh-eating Infinity Mushroom she’s trying to cultivate.

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