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Can we make ethical machines?
Are machines capable of understanding and abiding by moral principles? How would we go about teaching them ethics? These questions and more are explored in an article published by the New York Times entitled The Future of Moral Machines. The article explores the possibility that, as computing powe
USC film students use immersive card game to drive collaborative creativity.
Typically, first year film students get the shaft, not touching a camera until their sophomore or junior years. However, University of Southern California freshmen got an early taste of collaborative filmmaking this fall when their School of Cinematic Arts introduced Reality, a card-collecting game
PAUSE: The human history of Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots
Thanks to the new movie Real Steel, in which Hugh Jackman commands a large rocking and socking robot in the future, there’s been renewed interest in Rock’ Em Sock’ Em Robots. It turns out that despite its silly premise, the robot boxing in Real Steel follows the original theme of Rock’ Em Sock’ Em R
Are mobiles not letting our minds wander far enough?
We’ve all heard that mobiles are keeping us from working-but are they actually keeping us from zoning out? Nick Bilton has an interesting New York Times blog post about how mobiles are limiting the essential human capacity to daydream: Jonah Lehrer, a neuroscientist and the author of the soon-to-be
PLEASE MAKE THIS: Occupy Wall Street Lego set
Flash Flash With the recent news that Minecraft legos might be on their way sometime soon, maybe its time for Lego to get political. Parental discretion is advised. –Yannick LeJacq [via Slate V]
Get Down, Get Banned: Account bans crop up over online Star Wars dancing. [Updated]
It seems that even in a galaxy far, far away people still like to boogie. Rock Paper Shotgun have reported a little-known easter egg whereby entering the /getdown chat command will cause your character to switch into “shameless rug-cutting” mode in BioWare’s popular Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO.
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