Space Time Stories » AI http://www.spacetimestories.com Space and Time Travel Stories. A Science Fiction Blog By Sean O'Brien Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:24:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 A new AI http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/a-new-ai/ http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/a-new-ai/#comments Fri, 15 May 2009 21:38:17 +0000 Sean http://www.spacetimestories.com/?p=311 A new AI was born today, it’s now online, The Wolfram Alpha.

I’d like to offer an especially warm greeting to our future overlord.

To quote Stephen Wolfram:  “Wolfram|Alpha defines a new direction in computing—that would have simply not have been possible without Mathematica, and that in time will add some remarkable new dimensions to Mathematica itself.”

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]]> http://www.spacetimestories.com/announcements/a-new-ai/feed/ 0 Self-Aware Blog http://www.spacetimestories.com/fiction/self-aware-blog/ http://www.spacetimestories.com/fiction/self-aware-blog/#comments Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:14:22 +0000 Sean http://www.spacetimestories.com/?p=9 I’m worried my blog is on the verge of achieving sentience. I’ve noticed that some of my time travel stories have achieved a life of their own. What would it mean for a blog to be self-aware? Would it take comments personally? Would it seize control of the entire Internet and retaliate for poor digg rankings? Would it attempt to manipulate the US Presidential election? Or would it humbly accept its role as an aspiring science fiction blog and generate outstanding content?

My personal preference would be for it to send time travel email 24 hours into the past with the names of 2-3 top performing stocks from each trading day! Now that would be a useful AI.

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