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The Man Who Tried to Redeem the World with Logic

Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.

January 29, 2015

Robots Can’t Dance

Why the singularity is greatly exaggerated.

January 21, 2015

Ingenious: Ken Goldberg

Creative robots, the Kurzweil fallacy, and what it means to be human.

January 20, 2015

Why the Chess Computer Deep Blue Played Like a Human

Randomness may be key to both human and computer creativity.

October 2, 2014

How Crowdsourcing Turned On Me

One team of strangers helped me with the Darpa Shredder Challenge. Another sabotaged me.

October 2, 2014

Nature, Pixelated

With our brains plugged into virtual worlds all day, what is real?

September 19, 2014