Wonderland or Not

The plea­sure of the blo­gesphere — until it became crow­ded with peo­ple con­vin­ced they could be pro-bloggers, sit­ting on their tush for the rest of their lives, making tons of money without ever having lived life or done anything — was that it was easy to dis­co­ver smart, crea­tive indi­vi­duals. There is something about a blog which lets you know about the per­son behind it. You can tell if the per­son is smart, funny, well read, logi­cal, or artis­tic. You can even tell if the per­son is good at heart, or a total ass. In some cases you might be able to tell if they are smart.

Extre­mely blog intui­tive, Indie (fea­tu­red at Should be Famous for his very crea­tive blog Synch­ro­ni­city of Inde­ter­mi­nacy), was one of my first blog reads and remains on my read list to this day.

I read blogs of many dif­fe­rent gen­res as long as the blog­ger appears inte­lli­gent, but who knew.

Indie recently won an award for Elbot, an inter­nal research and deve­lop­ment pro­ject at Arti­fi­cial Solu­tions to try out new metho­do­lo­gies of natu­ral lan­guage pro­ces­sing, and ulti­ma­tely improve cus­to­mer systems.

Elbot, via his human coun­ter­part Fred Roberts (Indie), took home the Loeb­ner Prize for Arti­fi­cial Inte­lli­gence. This is an inter­na­tio­nal arti­fi­cial inte­lli­gence con­test to find the com­pu­ter pro­gram which can fool the most humans into belie­ving it is just as human as them.

You can see Indie with his medal here in The Rea­ding Chronicle’s, Elbot has the robot gift of the gab.

You may chat with Elbot here. He is not human yet, but his heart is sound even if his “brain” is tired form all the work they’ve had him doing recently.

Meet Elbot.

Con­gra­tu­la­tions Indie.

Woo­den Heart crea­ted by Fred Wise, Ben Weis­man, Kay Two­mey and Ger­man band­lea­der Bert Kaemp­fert, was based on a Ger­man folk song, “Muß i’ denn zum Städ­tele hinau, per­for­med in the video in English by Tom Petty and the Heart­brea­kers from their Play­back box set “Nobody’s Chil­dren”.