Professor Paul Matthews, a neuroscientist at Oxford University, says a mind-reading machine is pure science fiction.
Though others have tried to combine the TV and the PC-- Gateway 's (nyse: GTW - news - people ) Destination PCs come to mind--this machine doesn't seem to be aimed at replacing the TV you already have in the living room.
Our trouble is not the over-all absence of smartness but the intractable power of pure stupidity, and no machine, or mind, seems extended enough to cure that.
And supercomputer programmers, like video-game designers, do not mind learning to program an entirely new machine provided it delivers the performance they are seeking.
For a company most famous for its wheeled products, Honda certainly seems quite focused on things to help people get about on their own two feet, introducing another new prototype machine with just that in mind.
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So getting out of poverty seems to require a quantum leap vastly more food, a modern machine, or an employee to mind the shop.
True, I can't actually buy this dream machine, but I don't mind neither can George Soros.
He did not have a vision before his Xerox visit, and his idea after was simply to make and market the machine he saw come together in his mind.
Bill Bonner, founder of Agora and a book-writing machine, has a steel-trap mind with an ability to turn a phrase that is way beyond that of your humble analyst.
The machine is a prosthetic of the human mind.
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It turned out that the Obama administration and its allies in Illinois' Democratic machine in Washington and Springfield state had in mind another, even more outrageous motivation: the Thompson prison could serve as the place to relocate terrorists currently held offshore at Guantanamo Bay, allowing Gitmo's closure.
Never mind the philosophical question of whether it is wrong to insult a machine.
We'll look forward to the friendlier machine assistants that result... and keep in mind the room for deception when the robots invariably plot to take over the world.
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The machine-tools industry is probably not something that crosses your mind every day.
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"To step into something that was already a well-oiled machine, which is effectively the Broadway cast, it was very much on my mind to not be the weakest link, but once I got comfortable with everything, it was such a fun character and so over the top, " Ferrell says.
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