Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic are working on creating characters for Second Life with the reasoning abilities of a four-year-old. They currently have a character named Eddie that can reason about his own beliefs and make choices based on them. This is interesting progress in AI. Children four and under haven’t learnt to build models of [...]
Archive for 12 March 2008
Second Creepy Life
Posted: 12 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: artificial intelligence, furries, psychology, rensselaer, second life, sexual deviants
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Which CS subfield is your strength?
Posted: 12 March 2008 in UncategorizedTags: artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, computer science, interviews, natural language processing, questions, stress
So I was recently asked (and gave a very bad answer to) a question that has been haunting me ever since. What is the subfield of computer science where I am the strongest? First of all, in my undergraduate training, I was never really introduced to these ideas of subfields of CS explicitly. I knew [...]
