Category: Visionarism

  • Advance in AI may bring ‘bluffer’ type bots to online poker

    new poker AI bot in the making… from http://www.newscientisttech.com/channel/tech/mg19426066.600-software-learns-when-it-pays-to-deceive.html Hurwitz and Tshilidzi Marwala, also at Witwatersrand, have developed a virtual player that has taught itself to bluff at a card game called lerpa. Their artificial intelligence bot, named Aiden, is based on a neural network algorithm that usually forecasts stock market fluctuations. Crucially, Aiden was…

  • Banksy: The Hacker of the Art world

    Banksy is to Art as Hackers are to I.T.Is Banksy a Hacker? Absolutely. His own words resume his style: The time of getting fame for your name on its own is over. Artwork that is only about wanting to be famous will never make you famous. Any fame is a by-product of making something that…

  • The future of E-mail

    As time goes by, more and more spammers seem to find our e-mail address. We change it and, surprise surprise, they find it again. Although there are several dozens of anti-spam products, filters and firewalls, the regular person does not know how to get them, use them, much less configure them. And the ones that…

  • ID tags

    Recent discoveries and techonogies are pointing in the direction of mass use of micro ID tags.The RFID tags (Radion Frequency ID) could be as small as a grain of rice and placed just about anywhere. The prediction: I forsee a future where all our consumables (cd’s, books, computers, magazines, tabacco, deodorants, toothpaste, etc…) will have…