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Potential Dane Cook fans: robots
Julia Taylor and Lawrence Mazlack of the University of Cincinnati in Ohio have built a computer program or “bot” that is able to get a specific type of joke – one whose crux is a simple pun. They say this budding cyber wit could lend a sense of humour to physical robots acting as human [...]
Florida missile crisis
I’m all for recycling but perhaps this is crossing the line? A
Patriot missile was recently discovered in a Florida scrapyard much to the shock of the yard workers. Fearing their discovery, the police were phoned who in turn brought in experts from the local Air Force base.
They said that it was harmless, as it was [...]
Computer plays a mean game of checkers
Resistance is futile as man takes another backseat to machine, this time courtesy of the friendly Canadians.
Nature.com says:
Jonathan Schaeffer and his team at the University of Alberta, Canada, have been working on their program, called Chinook, since 1989, running calculations on as many as 200 computers simultaneously. Schaeffer has now announced that they have solved [...]
