Seth Godin Welcome to the American Go Association Wang Chen Wins 2014 World Students Go Oza Monday April 14, 2014 Wang Chen, one of the ‘Four Heavenly Kings’ who rule China’s amateur rating list, won the 12th World Students Go Oza Championship, held in late February in Toyko. Wang (right) defeated Ken (Kai Kun) Xie of New Zealand, Japan’s Yamikumo Tsubasa, Go Risa, also from Japan, and Chung Chen-En of Taiwan. Yamikumo, Go, and Chung did not lose to anyone else, so they finished as part of the four-way tie for runner-up. Tie-breaking points put Yamikumo second, Chung third, and Go fourth. Viktor Ivanov (Russia, 9th place) and Kwan King-Man (Hong Kong, 10th place) matched Maojie Xia by winning two games apiece, and although Yanqi Zhang (France, 12th place) won only once, the opponent she beat was Zhou Shiying, the Chinese female player. Go Spotting: Conway’s Game of Life Cambridge mathematician John Conway apparently conceived Game of Life — his ‘cellular automaton’ — on a go board, according to this video sent in by Peter Kron.
Sens du client - Le blog des professionnels du marketing client et de la relation client Technology Review: The Singularity and the Fixed Point Some futurists such as Ray Kurzweil have hypothesized that we will someday soon pass through a singularity–that is, a time period of rapid technological change beyond which we cannot envision the future of society. Most visions of this singularity focus on the creation of machines intelligent enough to devise machines even more intelligent than themselves, and so forth recursively, thus launching a positive feedback loop of intelligence amplification. It’s an intriguing thought. As a brain engineer, however, I think that focusing solely on intelligence augmentation as the driver of the future is leaving out a critical part of the analysis–namely, the changes in motivation that might arise as intelligence amplifies. We all know that intelligence, as commonly defined, isn’t enough to impact the world all by itself. There’s a second issue.
E-marketing : Actualité marketing, marques, communication, agences, publicité How Long Till Human-Level AI? | h+ Magazine Ben Goertzel, Seth Baum, Ted Goertzel February 5, 2010 When will human-level AIs finally arrive? Well, as Yogi Berra said, “it’s tough to predict, especially about the future.” We asked the experts when they estimated AI would reach each of four milestones: passing the Turing test by carrying on a conversation well enough to pass as a humansolving problems as well as a third grade elementary school studentperforming Nobel-quality scientific workgoing beyond the human level to superhuman intelligence We also asked how the timing of achieving these milestones would be affected by massive funding of $100 billion/year going into AGI R&D. We also probed opinions on what the really intelligent AIs will look like — will they have physical bodies or will they just live in the computer and communicate with voice or text? We posed these questions to 21 AGI-09 conference participants, with a broad range of backgrounds and experience, all with significant prior thinking about AGI. Conclusion
E-commerce Mag, le site du e-commerce et de la vente à distance - ecommercemag.fr Why you need to be thinking about mobile. | Hoop Associates It's hard to remember a time when it wasn't instantly possible to connect to the web (signal depending of course) straight out of you pocket. With the release of the original iPhone – arguably the first smartphone to be embraced by the general public – back in 2007, the number of mobile users has increased exponentially. The dramatic rise in smartphone owners has been accompanied by an even bigger increase in the consumption of mobile internet. In 2009, roughly 8% of the internet's users were on a mobile device. Today, that number sits at around 23% – an increase of almost 300% in just two years. At the end of last year, market research firm IDC published findings showing that for the first time ever, the sales of mobile devices were projected to overtake and significantly exceed the sales of desktops (it's worth noting that, in 2010, the sales of smartphones increased by 87.2%, compared with 5.5% for PCs). You need to start thinking about mobile.
PRISMES CONSULTING