Posts Tagged ‘ distributed systems ’

My Quest for Computational Creativity

January 15, 2012
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Legal Studies

All the pieces are out there. Self-managing systems. Autonomatons. Artificially intelligent creativity. Bots and spiders crawling over the web to gather and process information. Different paradigms that incorporate pseudorandomness, machine learning, and/or program machines to behave like people. ARE there digital entities out there now that call into question everything we know about authorship and…

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If I Only Had a (Blue) Brain

January 8, 2012
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Henry Markram, the Blue Brain Project, biomimetic brains, neural nets, whole brain emulation

At what point will a program make a break from its human origins and become something independent and just plain weird? While self-aware artificially intelligent robots may still be pretty far off, there are some very strange things going on in experimental computing. As Dorothy might say, “I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.”…

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Autonomous Distributed Computing Systems – Thinking for Themselves

December 7, 2011
By
Distributed Computing

While traditional AI frameworks resulted in machines which are little more than tools or puppets, dynamic and self-regulating systems are arising which can autonomously act or produce content. It may be awhile before we see a digital entity that we recognize as being self-aware, yet computers that think for themselves are already among us.

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Should Lawyers Dream of Electric Sheep? Digital Art: A Dynamic Misfit in a Static System

October 12, 2011
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electricsheep3

The current copyright framework is becoming obsolete as we try to make a digital world run on an analog legal system. The Copyright Act covers “original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be visually perceived, either directly or with the aid of…

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