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Evolving Artwork Generated by Distributed System

The Electric sheep open-source screensaver utilizes a network of 60,000 computers to render frames of an ever changing collection of fractal-based animations. A genetic algorithm is employed to ensure that no two animations are the same and that desirable visuals ... Read more
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Distributed AI Coming to a Computer Near You

Canadian high-tech startup Intelligence Realm is constructing a distributed virtual brain, one computer at a time. Utilizing a computational model we’ve seen in such projects as SETI@Home, the system will harness the computing power of thousands of machines throughout ... Read more

TORCS: AI Racing Game

Description TORCS (The Open Racing Car Simulator) is a highly portable multi platform car racing simulation. It is used as ordinary car racing game, as AI racing game and as research platform. It runs on Linux (x86, AMD64 and PPC), FreeBSD, Ma... Read more

Annual Turing Test Challenges

There are presently two major chatterbot contests which utilize the Turing Test as the determinant - the bot which most closely comes to passing (or does pass) the Turing Test is deemed the winner. These two contests, the Loebner Prize ... Read more

Mind Reading Devices Going Mainstream

Some interesting new mind-reading headsets are finding their way to market.  The devices relay the electrical signals within the wearer's brain to a computer, which then can use the information to control such things as characters in video games, medical ... Read more

Academia
The Remote Control Animals
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Cyborgs and Medical Implants - Academia
Monday, 01 June 2009 19:16
bull-smallSeveral universities are experimenting with technologies that allow researchers to control animals through electrical stimulation of the brain and muscles. Additionally, DARPA is interested in animal cyborgs that would be critical components of future surveillance programs. Note that these projects are the inverse of what we've seen with the Frankenbot, the robot controlled by a rat brain, a project covered late last year by Synthetic Thought.
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Controlling Twitter with your Mind
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Cyborgs and Medical Implants - Academia
Tuesday, 26 May 2009 03:30
twitter-smallResearchers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison have developed a brain-computer interface that allows one to post Tweets just by thinking, similar to what a couple new commercial headsets do in the worlds of gaming and wheel-chair control. Researchers believe the technology could help individuals with spinal cord injury or locked-in syndrome lead a more normal life.
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Bionic Contact Lens
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Cyborgs and Medical Implants - Academia
Saturday, 02 May 2009 06:55

bionic-lens-smallThe University of Washington's Parviz Research Group is actively developing a contact lens containing embedded circuitry to enhance vision.  The technologies developed could be the building blocks of future products such as lenses that allow zoom capability, advanced video devices for use with cell phones, or even image enhancement overlays such the heat-maps shown in Predator.
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