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Eclectic Mix Chess Wits, Tai Chi, and Human Interfaces
Eclectic Mix Apologies for the seemingly random selection of articles! I've been scraping the bottom of the barrel for these, but they are still interesting. You could have noticed by the length of my rants! Cleveland Sunday Magazine reports of a chess fan and AI disciple that has created a variant based on this logic game; Matching (Chess) Wits. The game is called Arimaa, and you can win $10,000 if you get a computer to beat a human before 2020. It seems silly to be setting another narrow problem -- to which AI is extremely well suited -- to prove that computers do not have "real intelligence." Someone could solve this and we'd still be no closer to strong AI. TRN Mag discusses ways to improve human-computer interactions -- Interface Gets the Point. We can all look forward to swearing or shouting at our voice recognition software, without worrying about it writing the words down! Geek.com reports that Charles River Media starts Game Dev Journal. It is intended to getting academics to focus on computer games. I'm not convinced by the motivation behind the initiative, as most relevant academic research projects can be almost trivially applied to games (like AI techniques). All it takes is background knowledge, and time for prototyping -- not a dedicated journal! If this does go ahead, I hope they promote the freedom of the knowledge (online distribution of papers), and not try to squeeze every dollar from the publication. There's a short article on SMH.com about China Builds Robot that Can Play Tai Chi. It seems an amazing achievement, in promotion if not in AI! I'll be moving my "news publishing pipeline" over to a new computer after this, so hopefully there will be coherence in the updates once again... | NewsCaster 79 posts. Monday 20 January, 18:34 Reply