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MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors – IEEE Spectrum

Via Scoop.it – Creating the Future DARPA’s new memristor-based approach to AI consists of a chip that mimics how neurons process information…   MoNETA will be a general-purpose mammalian-type intelligence, an artificial, generic creature known as an animat. With the DARPA hardware, we think we will be able to fit this level of intelligence into a shoebox. The key feature…

Lessig: The tyranny of tiny minds and big money: Time to rout the Cancer of Washington DC Insiders

Via Scoop.it – Demand Transformation After three years, it’s time for Obama to deliver on his promise to curb money in politics…   The corruption of this government is a cancer. And you don’t launch an attack on cancer by prescribing good eating and exercise. Nor can you make change believable by pushing for reforms that won’t change anything in…

JAIL THE SCOUNDRELS: Lieberman, Cantor defend Capitol Hill’s inside traders

Via Scoop.it – Demand TransformationWall Street’s favorites resist the effort to ban profiteering on non-public information…   This is not just insider trading, but another form of bribery. US Politicians of both parties are corrupt to the core. They should be perp walked to jail now. Unfotunately they still control the courts, police and army. The Media Pundits eat their…