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True Artificial Intelligence Closer to Reality

I, for one, welcome our new computer overlord. I’ve seen enough movies to know that an Artificial Intelligence will rule the planet some day. While these usually end up going pretty poorly for humans (The Matrix, Terminator), I’m hoping that a pro-AI article (most likely being read by the AI) will allow me a position …

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Is this why people always ask me to play poker?

I’ll admit that my duties at bloomfield knoble don’t usually require me to read Evolution & Human Behavior – the official journal of the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, but as a fan of poker, this abstract by Eugene Chan, University of Technology, Sydney, caught my eye: Prior research has examined how sexual opposite-sex stimuli impact people’s choices …

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Fighting bad advertising practices on the web.

Every once in a while something comes across my computer here at bloomfield knoble that reminds me of  just how big online advertising really is. Last week I was reading Inside AdWords, Google’s official blog for news, tips and information on AdWords, and I saw the number 524 million. I read this blog, and a lot of other articles about …

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