The Internet is a Brain

Sunny summer’s morning in Somerset, enjoying the juxtaposition of:

Popular Science’s revelation of the first wiring diagrams of the cerebral cortex:

Matthew Hurst’s brilliant blogosphere activation simulation / visualization from PdF2008:


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And Jeff Stibel’s Harvard Business blog: The Internet is a Brain

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July 27, 2008 | Filed Under Artificial Intelligence, Collective Intelligence, Video, Visualisation | Leave a Comment 

I not robot…

Thanks to Mathew Ingram and David Weinberger, I have just marvelled at these two videos in quick succession, and found myself feeling singuarly unsettled:

Big Dog walking:

Lego robot solves Rubik’s cube:

UPDATE: One month on, and thanks to Marc Andreessen, the feeling isn’t going away:

Robot reassembles itself after being kicked apart:

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March 22, 2008 | Filed Under Artificial Intelligence, Computers, Ethics, Robots, Singularity, Video | Leave a Comment 

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