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Attention unimaginative bloggers: IBM app spits out topics to write about

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Every writer could use a muse, sometimes. Photo: Ygor Oliveira/Flickr CC

You might think a roomful of monkeys could generate most of the blog posts you read.

But IBM Research has got it all down to a single program. Called Blog Muse, it generates topics for you to write about, based upon what audiences are asking for.

Blog muse isn’t an artificial brain. Rather than tapping that roomful of monkeys for raw material, however, it crowd-sources requests for stories from the naked apes in your community. (Read the paper about Blog Muse, which is being presented at computer conferences this winter and spring, below.)

IBMers Werner Geyer and Casey Dugan created Blog Muse.

Dugan studied at MIT, under the computer science giant, and Creative Commons founding director, Hal Abelson. She is working IBM’s Beehive Project, which aims to influence social networking behavior.

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IBM, DARPA, building "cat brain"

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Can killer robocats be far behind?

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IBM has announced it will lead a US government-funded collaboration to make electronic circuits that mimic brains. Part of a field called “cognitive computing”, the research will bring together neurobiologists, computer and materials scientists and psychologists. As a first step in its research the project has been granted $4.9m £3.27m from US defense agency Darpa. The resulting technology could be used for large-scale data analysis, decision making or even image recognition. source: news.bbc.co.uk

via IBM to Build Cat-like Brain

Don’t know why, but this story appears to be a re-report of a story that ran a month ago: Click here for that one.

"Big Blue" rebuttal: No transhumanists here

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IBM researcher defends Second Life, World of Warcraft, against Parallelnormal blog posts.

from Mark:

High-profile virtual worlders are trying to correct what they see as misrepresentations by Parallelnormal of their recent meetings and events.

One of them, Second Lifer “Dale Innis,” writes a comment blasting my comparison of real and virtual versions of New England, and my description of a conference about the convergence of reality with virtual reality.

“(You) drastically misread your sources about the WoW conference and the Extropia sims, and you seem to do the same thing in many places where Second Life is involved,” Innis writes.

Innis in real life (RL) is IBM researcher David M. Chess.

IBM has built inworld stores for big box retailers.

Chess is working to develop autonomic technologies, which are self-aware and can fix themselves.

Chess, speaking for himself, and not IBM, denies that Extropia and the World of Warcraft conference “are in fact about transhumanism.”

Yet the WoW conference was organized by a transhumanist, and one who views the world’s major religions as an obstacle to the advancement of his own beliefs.

And extropians, by their own definition, are transhumanists, real or imagined.