Talking bot is here!!

Scientists in japan have been successful in creating rather re-creating the entire vocal system of humans, i.e. vocal cavity, tongue, vocal chords, lips, teeth, soft palate and lungs. And according to the listeners the result is clear and natural speech in japanese ofcourse.See the article on bots who imitate human life.
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all about ai

Click on aboutai.net and if you have interests in artificial intelligence ,then this will keep you busy for atleast a week.wonderfully arranged and exhaustive coverage of "all" the topics.

Neural net on the internet

There is this site http://www.20q.net/ .Though hard-core players won't be interested but for AI enthusiasts,its good enough.There is an artificial neural net at play .You think about an object and by asking a series of questions it will guess what you were thinking about.In my case ,it got it absolutely right.Try it once.just for some intelligent fun!!!

Adaptive AI

I hit upon a site http://adaptiveai.com/ .And to my pleasure i found a real "firm" based on ai.Its got nice resources and articles as well as links to some of the books i was longing for.

books i swallowed this summer!!

I read some real interesting books this summer.And i just wanted to compile a list of them although some titles i have forgotten already.these are :
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1.ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE by blay whitby
2.AMONGST THE BELIEVERS by v.s.naipaul
3.EINSTEIN-THE LIFE AND TIMES by ronald w.clark
4.THE FOURTH ESTATE by jeffery archer
5.TWELVE RED HERRINGS by jeffery archer
6.TRAIN TO PAKISTAN by khushwant singh
7.MEATLESS DAYS by sara suleri
8.THE DAY OF THE SCORPION by paul scott
9.THE ARGUMENTATIVE INDIAN by amartya sen
10.SPLIT SECOND by david baldacci
11.FOURTH OF JULY by james patterson
12.ANGELS AND DEMONS by dan brown
13.FREAKONOMICS by stephen levitt
14.ANIMAL FARM by george orwell
15.HOW OPAL MEHTA ..... by kavya vishvanathan
16..PAINTED WORDS by g.n devy
17..A PRISON DIARY by jeffery archer
18.THE LAST SONG OF DUSK
19.TO KILL A MOCKING BIRD by harper lee
20.DEMON IN THE FREEZER
21.BRAVE NEW WORLD by bryan appleyard
22.UP THE DOWN ESCALATOR by charles leadbeater
23.FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD by thomas hardy
24.ALCHEMIST by paulo coehlo
25.ITS NOT ABOUT THE BIKE,MY JOURNEY BACK TO LIFE by lance armstrong
woff!! enough of it.no more fiction for me...

Teacher bots are here !!

Acoording to New Scientist,robots that teach one another new words through interaction have been demonstrated by UK researchers.This could be a novel way to understand how linguistics evolved.There is also a video showing the different stages of robot interactions.These bots have a vocabulary of over 100 words and might teach humans how to perform some new tasks.GET READY FOR A BOT TEACHER!!

Brave new worlds

I just finished reading a marvelous book titled "BRAVE NEW WORLDS " by bryan appleyard, and i want to admit that it is one of the books you just can't afford to miss even if you have an iota of interest in genetics.Although i never read any book on genetics as such but this one is superb.Bryan appleyard explores the promise and danger of genetic manipulation.With genocentrism becoming the dominant orthodoxy,genes can be blamed or credited with determining everything from sexual orientation to criminal behaviour and religious belief ,scientists are being blamed for everything. At a time when ethics take the place for everything this book tells the reader how much is actually enough. A book for you shelf!!