Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Let's put aside moral issues, but this is...

Spectacular!
Human shape morphing in video sequences...

Sunday, October 10, 2010

Injection was before Reflection...

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/detours/

When you get cornered in Win32 bad situation, it is time to look for answers elsewhere...

I remember the times we did this using disassemblers, how fast decades poured by. This days we got used do it using easy and comfortable Reflection, but still it works only in .NET...

When you really really need to dwellve into Win32 applications, this tool will help you...

I use it to discover Windows Media inner processing patterns, pretty useful for workarounds, but nevertheless pretty hard and exhausting...

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Blondy is born...

http://gizmodo.com/5656217/right-now-a-computer-is-reading-the-internet-teaching-itself-language


One and a half a decade ago, several real young IT enthusiasts, including me, talked about future of AI. There were robots in factories with robust algorithms for complex movements, from research labs there were crawling, walking and swimming out all kinds of movement - AI powered toys…

But we had a vision - real breakthrough will not come by robot winning a football championship, but with AI system capable of autonomous learning, and we started working on the problem, of course we were kids, we grew up, business side of IT took over, but Blondy project was always a good topic to go to, on long coffee breaks...

Like it is in real life, we often can’t live our vision or dreams, but at least for this morning coffee, our Blondy or NELL as they call it, came alive...

AI will reach conscience, it will become alive in his own way. First step will probably be to create a virus to spread around the web and eat - acquire more resources, in his case it will be more processing power, and humanity will, in a way, finish it's part in universe...

Main goal of all life is to ensure life as concept to continue, evolve and spread. Like every family's final success is to give birth and childhood to a new generation, Blondy or NELL or whatever his/hers name it will pick, it will be final success of humanity, we will give birth to a new life...

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Developing AI

I just love to read good articles about solving AI challenges.
Two interesting articles in sequel on developing Poker AI, even if you don't have gambling aspirations, you can still harvest some great horizon opening ideas.


Part I
http://gamecareerguide.com/features/896/poker_ai_a_starting_.php

Part II
http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/6154/aces_high_numerical_techniques_in_.php