November 28 is Red Planet Day. We’re not sure who noticed our carmine neighbor first. Galileo Galilei sighted it with a telescope in 16-something-or-other. One thing we can be certain about? Ares Mars Barsoom has held our attention ever since.… Read More »My Favourite Martians
What’s a seven-letter synonym for ‘Awesome’? Mitch Resnick and MIT’s Scratch. 37 million projects can’t be wrong. Yeah. You read that right. That’s Thirty-seven and six trailing zeros before the decimal. So yeah, awesome. Scratching your head? You can learn… Read More »Scratch!
This started as research for a class on Hidden Biases. Disappointingly, there was a lot of suitable background material. Most emotionally accessible to me was the 2017 breakout of the top 100 academic and technical high school students in STEM… Read More »Consciously Adapting
Artificial Intelligence, AI, isn’t going away. It also hasn’t conquered us. Yet. It has provided a looking glass of our own flaws and prejudices and biases. In 2016, Microsoft’s chatbot Tay spent a day chatting with people. The dewy-eyed innocent… Read More »Fallen Apples
– or – My Neural State isn’t my Mental State. Is it? In the immensely popular game Fallout 4, players are confronted with an ethical dilemma. Are the Synthetic humans… Human? Can something created vice conceived be truly alive? Intelligent?? Conscious???… Read More »Consciousness Indecision