Archive for May, 2007

Can computers be creative?

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Last Monday I gave a presentation on the philosophical subject ‘Can computers be creative?’. Everything went well and the discussion was lively. The PowerPoint presentation can be download here. It covers topics like the definition of creativity and if artificial creativity can be build in principle and it shows some practical research projects done on this subject.
A very interesting and accessible discussion transcript between Kurtzweil, Gelernter and Brooks can be found at KurtzweilAI.net: “Will machine become consciousness?”.

RL Poker release

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

Well, we’ve managed to get the poker player to learn, finally. Just in time for the project ending.

It’s available under GPL at the SourceForge website of RL Poker or directly download the .jar files. To run, read the instructions on the release system page.