What can currently be said about the impact of probiotic bacteria on the microbial balance at the moment? “They go in at one end of the digestive tract and come out the other, and hopefully something good happens along the way” is probably not too harsh a statement.
— Gerald Tannock , Probiotics: A Critical Review

Archive for September, 2009

AI fails at mimicry

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

This Technology Review article, “A Turing Test for Computer Game Bots”, demonstrates the vast gulf which exists between computer algorithm and human behavior. The premise of the AI attempt:
Can a computer fool expert gamers into believing it’s one of them? That was the question posed at the second annual BotPrize, a three-month contest that concluded […]

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