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Comment Re:I was able to sneak into their laboratories (Score 2) 238

Stephen Westland, professor of colour science and technology at Leeds University, told the paper: 'These new materials, they are pretty much as black as we can get, almost as close to a black hole as we could imagine.'

It's ok, they managed to get this quote into it. Everything is operating as normal.

Comment Re:Oklahoma? (Score 1) 1161

by Melipone (#27100093) Attached to: Oklahoma, Vatican Take Opposite Tacks On Evolution
If you read the god delusion, and listen to Dawkins' speeches, he does not say that science can be used to disprove god. Rather that in can be used to guide our analysis of the situation - specifically that when examined probabilistically the likelihood to god existing is rather slim, to the point of being equivalent of the probability of there existing a teapot orbiting Mars. That's an important distinction, and one which means he is not in conflict with Kant's argument. I'm a bit late on this one but I thought I'd chime in anyway...
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Variations On the Classic Turing Test 82

Posted by kdawson from the climbing-out-of-the-uncanny-valley dept.
holy_calamity writes "New Scientist reports on the different flavors of Turing Test being used by AI researchers to judge the human-ness of their creations. While some strive only to meet the 'appearance Turing Test' and build or animate characters that look human, others are investigating how robots can be made to elicit the same brain activity in a person as interacting with a human would."

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