Category: Visionarism
Advance in AI may bring ‘bluffer’ type bots to online poker
new poker AI bot in the making… from http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/mg19426066.600-software-learns-when-it-pays-to-deceive.html Hurwitz and Tshilidzi Marwala, also at Witwatersrand, have developed a virtual player that has taught itself to bluff at a card game called lerpa. Their artificial intelligence bot, named Aiden, is based on a neural network algorithm that usually forecasts stock market fluctuations. Crucially, Aiden was…
Banksy: The Hacker of the Art world
Banksy is to Art as Hackers are to I.T.Is Banksy a Hacker? Absolutely. His own words resume his style: The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that…
The future of E-mail
As time goes by, more and more spammers seem to find our e-mail address. We change it and, surprise surprise, they find it again. Although there are several dozens of anti-spam products, filters and firewalls, the regular person does not know how to get them, use them, much less configure them. And the ones that…
ID tags
Recent discoveries and techonogies are pointing in the direction of mass use of micro ID tags.The RFID tags (Radion Frequency ID) could be as small as a grain of rice and placed just about anywhere. The prediction: I forsee a future where all our consumables (cd’s, books, computers, magazines, tabacco, deodorants, toothpaste, etc…) will have…
