Concept Robots by Alexander Iglesias

November 11th, 2011 | Robot

Alexander Iglesias is a graphic artist out of Miami, Florida.  I can’t say I know much about him, but I like his work.  I especially enjoy looking at the first image.
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  I have always had a particular fascination with incredibly complex machines.  Find more here.

-RSB

Anatomy of a Computer Virus

November 9th, 2011 | Robot

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Stuxnet – an American-Israeli project to sabotage the Iranian nuclear program.  The worm has been found to have 2 major components.  One was designed to send Iran’s nuclear centrifuges spinning wildly out of control.  Another seems right out of the movies: The computer program also secretly recorded what normal operations at the nuclear plant looked like, then played those readings back to plant operators, like a pre-recorded security tape in a bank heist, so that it would appear that everything was operating normally while the centrifuges were actually tearing themselves apart…

Yes, that would be Ocean’s 11.

-RSB

Where Good Ideas Come From

November 8th, 2011 | Brain

Steven Johnson, a regular at the TED conference, helped develop this short video to promote his book, Where Good Ideas Come From.  Mr. Johnson highlights one of the main reasons RobotSpaceBrain was put into action: to enhance connectivity and possibly give someone out there a new “hunch” to use in the development of something new.  So REACH OUT and find someone to share and grow your ideas, or perhaps just stumble “serendipitously” across something exciting here at RobotSpaceBrain to innovate the next big thing.

-RSB

Air Swimmer Shark

November 6th, 2011 | Robot

The creator of the X-zylo has released the Air Swimmer Shark to the market and it has blown up!  I was recently at Bassnectar for Halloween in Austin, TX (shown above) and there was the flying shark zooming around through the air all night.  You can buy it here for around $35.  Seems like a good deal to me.
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-RSB

The Atomium

November 4th, 2011 | Space


 

The Atomium is a monument in Brussels, Belgium that was erected in 1958 as a symbol of faith in technical and scientific progress and as an optimistic vision of the future of a modern, new, super-technological world for a better life for mankind.  The Atomium was designed from the body-centered cubic crystal structure of iron (magnified 165 billion times) by engineer André Waterkeyn.

In 1958, humanity aspired to a better future, characterised by harmony, progress and peace. And it was in Brussels, then the young capital of Europe in its infancy , that nations came together to celebrate the dawn of tomorrow’s world.

Escalators are used to travel inside from sphere to sphere, and an impressive panoramic restaurant sits in the highest sphere.

-RSB

Are Humans Self-Aware?

November 3rd, 2011 | Brain, Robot

“Most people assume that computers can’t be conscious, or self-aware; at best they can only simulate the appearance of this. Of course, this assumes that we, as humans, are self-aware. But are we? I think not. I know that sounds ridiculous, so let me explain.

If by awareness we mean knowing what is in our minds, then, as every clinical psychologist knows, people are only very slightly self-aware, and most of what they think about themselves is guess-work. We seem to build up networks of theories about what is in our minds, and we mistake these apparent visions for what’s really going on. To put it bluntly, most of what our “consciousness” reveals to us is just “made up”. Now, I don’t mean that we’re not aware of sounds and sights, or even of some parts of thoughts. I’m only saying that we’re not aware of much of what goes on inside our minds.

When people talk, the physics is quite clear: our voices shake the air; this makes your ear-drums move — and then computers in your head convert those waves into constituents of words. These somehow then turn into strings of symbols representing words, so now there’s somewhere in your head that “represents” a sentence. What happens next?

When light excites your retinas, this causes events in your brain that correspond to texture, edges, color patches, and the like. Then these, in turn, are somehow fused to “represent” a shape or outline of a thing. What happens then?

We all comprehend these simple ideas.
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But there remains a hard problem, still. What entity or mechanism carries on from there? We’re used to saying simply, that’s the “self”. What’s wrong with that idea? Our standard concept of the self is that deep inside each mind resides a special, central “self” that does the real mental work for us, a little person deep down there to hear and see and understand what’s going on. Call this the “Single Agent” theory.
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It isn’t hard to see why every culture gets attached to this idea. No matter how ridiculous it may seem, scientifically, it underlies all principles of law, work, and morality. Without it, all our canons of responsibility would fall, of blame or virtue, right or wrong. What use would solving problems be, without that myth; how could we have societies at all?
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The trouble is, we cannot build good theories of the mind that way. In every field, as Scientists we’re always forced to recognize that what we see as single things – like rocks or clouds, or even minds – must sometimes be described as made of other kinds of things. We’ll have to understand that Self, itself, is not a single thing.”

Marvin Minsky, MIT

First published in AI Magazine, vol. 3 no. 4, Fall 1982.

-RSB

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