Milwaukee computer programmer Mohan Embar describes competing for -- and winning -- the 2012 Loebner Prize for Artificial Intelligence. His chat bot, Chip Vivant, was the most "human computer" of the year. But it still couldn't pass the Turing Test.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Robert Laughlin says that the internet is full of information, but it may not be anything you want.
The East Village Opera Company gives the traditional operatic repertory an extreme musical make-over, re-imagining arias as popular songs.
Welcome to the 21st Centrury and the Biopunk Movement where biohacking and kitchen table biotech are the norm.
Lynne Cox is a long distance swimmer who specializes in the impossible. She tells Steve Paulson how she trained, and how she’s able to do survive in such cold water.
John Freyer decided to sell everything in his apartment on E-Bay. He tells the story in a book called “All My Life for Sale.”
Steve Roggenbuck’s no traditional poet. Sure, he writes, but he’s built a following by posting videos of himself to Youtube. And his latest book is subtitled, "poems and selfies."
Mark Moskowitz made a film called “The Stone Reader” about his search for Dow Mossman, the author of a rapturously reviewed 1972 novel called “The Stones of Summer.”
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