September 5, 2011 archive

Reading Commentary for Week 1: Why the Future Doesn’t Need Us by Bill Joy

With Bill Joy’s profession and background, it doesn’t surprise me to know that he has been aware of the possibility that artificial intelligence would surpass human beings in the future.   After reading his article however, a number of sci-fi movies came to mind because of the similar themes he discussed (i.e. The Matrix, Bladerunner, …

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week 1 readings

The first thing I thought of when reading Norman’s essay was:  “omg microsoft kinect!” I don’t know how many people watched it yet, but this year’s E3 conference Microsoft demo’ed more Kinect Sports videos for your entertainment: http://youtu.be/OYLp3ml9KJk (skip to 3.18 for the football match) http://youtu.be/UDMJbeqmmi8 (for srs, a very serious star wars kid) I’m …

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