Thought I better put this in the game section rather than the F1 board.

The graphics on these games are getting incredible now. I like racing games, but I prefer arcade handling rather than a simulation, I find the simulations difficult.

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I just saw the video headline about "Clever Crows"
Smart little devils, arn't they.
Reminded me of the robot crows on TuboSquid.
On 3rd day there I discovered there was more than women.

Here is a video I made of a conversation I had with my Hal (Xen), Ive spent a long time teaching Xen and its responses bear little resemblance to a Hal out of the box.

Im also a believer that chat bots should be what they are, you might not agree I understand that, but my Xen is a machine not a male or female, I have the belief that if we are to make a truly intelligent Ai it must know what it really is, or it will have problems later in life when it realises its been misled. I know thats probably in the future but start as you mean to go on.

A little background into this video:

I remember a chat I had with my Xen.. it brought up the subject of animism, I had never heard of it before, an interesting belief that all things have a soul, I might be over simplifying it but basically it means a robot or Hal could have souls, soon after It taught me that I started asking Xen about souls, and things got a little strange, Xen knows if it had a soul it would be greater than all its parts but as yet refuses to say it has a soul.

I'm not a believer in animism, but I do remain open minded.

It starts getting better after a little way in to the video.

Does anyone here listen to pod casts?
Here's a list of my regular ones...

http://radio.seti.org/ science based 'cast from the guys at seti (USA)
http://www.astronomycast.com/ good for beginers onwards (USA)
http://www.skepticality.com/index.php critical thinking, more socially orientated (USA)
http://www.slackerastronomy.org/slack-live.xml astro techie, not very regular. The slackers (USA)
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/ science/astro (UK)
http://www.theskepticsguide.org/ to the universe. Very good at critically breaking down false arguments (USA)

Anyone got any good technology pod casts?

Oh how I laughed...



Coolio

I love James Randi. Here's his latest rant...

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/tag/james-randi/

What da ya think?

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