A Bright Future For Soft Computing

Interesting this article here: Rebirthing HAL.

I think I have been hearing the very same arguments since my first days -- and even earlier -- as a freshman at my former university.

Evolutionary algorithms, neural networks, and others bio-inspired approaches are just profound simplifications of real systems. Don't expect them, at least in the near future, to replicate what their real counterparts do.

Feng Gui

Nice visualization tool for a simulated gradient attention map on a website. See here. Its name is Feng Gui and creates through artificial intelligence techniques a gradient map for the human attention on a picture and/or webpage.

Thanks to François from Intelligent Machines and to MEDAL Blogging for the pointers! :)

The picture above is the Genetic Argonaut's gradient map!

P.S: Well, if the current picture was that one from Lenna, maybe the gradient map could be very different! :)