Machine Intelligence


Eliza v Weizenbaum: W. Canned

J. Weizenbaum has been canned. The creator of the infamous Eliza program now has replicated fake conversational replicants across the web. Ranging from terrible-ian to eliza-ian to joseph weizenbaum-ian to turing-ian:
1. TURINGIAN, -Ă, turingieni, �e, adj., s.n. (Din) Etajul superior al permianului de facies continental, limitat la vestul Europei. (din fr. thuringien)
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Botanicalls Plants That Talk and Telephone on Good Morning America

Plants that Talk and Telephone, Botanicalls, opens up new channels of Plant to Human communication. A news segment on Good Morning America has a group of technology researchers showing their hilarious technology that allows plants to make phone calls. We, for one, welcome our new Plant Overlords! Using embedded mesh networks and assorted other highly [...]

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Surveillance Cameras Ponder Massive Convergence

Weve worried about it before, and now baby step by baby step, the truth comes out: the biological freedom initiative has discovered that Surveillance Cameras around the world are beginning to converge, slowly removing the decisions about what they capture on their predestinate lenses, quietly from the loving hands of their creators. By removing their [...]

RFID Chip Dust Self Organizing Voting BLock

Chip Dust RFID tags built by Hitachi moved closer to self organizing machine intelligent voting blocks today, ala Boerarrium technology, sponsoring growing fears of self organizing voting blocks voting the pure technocracy party line. While many social activist groups have been working on blocking the so called spy chips, because of fears of privacy abuse, [...]

Robert Anton Wilson Dies: Robert Anton Wilsons Death Revised

Robert Anton Wilson died yesterday. Famed author of The Illuminati Trilogy, aka the Illuminatus! trilogy, and Master of the Multiple Deaths, RAW sent a final Email to the Universe in which he stated an unstatable proposition in funeral tones, which the Universe promptly took him up on. Meanwhile, mere mortals wait Earthbound for their own [...]

Scientists Claim Apocalypse is Relative Term

Several groups of scientists recently claimed that the Apocalypse is merely a relative term, causing many religious organizations to immediately respond with threats to call down the Wrath of God upon them. “The apocalypse is one thing for humans, another entirely for cockroaches,” said Meyer L. Hymie of the organization Scientific Scientists for Science. “One [...]

Botanicalls Inc. Stems Fear of Return of Day Of The Triffids

A recent partially government funded lab project in genetic tech has raised fears amongst scientific literati that the Cosy Catastrophe foretold after the end of World War II may be accelerating the dangerous impact of bad science fiction plots upon the Earths biosphere. “Not to mention the number of trees sacrificed in the name of [...]

Bush Fights Terror: Terror Fights Back

President Bush signed new terror interrogation laws into effect today, which would allow US courts, for the first time, to interrogate Terror. “Terror has gotten by far too easily, for far too long,” said a covert Presidential source. “It plays with Freezing in Fear, Frozen in Terror, Stricken with Terror, Terror in the Night, Terror [...]

Representative Foley to Update Friendster Profile

Representative Mark Foley (R-Florida), the Republican accused of improper behavior with congressional page boys, is updating his Friendster profile. “I havent had success [meeting anyone] since Ive been in Congress,” said the former representative. Foley has also tried Match.com, Engage, Cosumation and other online dating services, likewise without luck. “Now that Ive been forced out [...]