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Imagineering Links
- Drawing Your Ideas - Language predisposes our mind to a certain way of thinking. Consider a rose. Using words, one might say a "rose" is a red, pink, or white flower one gives to a beautiful woman, a pleasant hostess, or to a deceased friend. Notice how the tagging of a complex flower with a simple verbal description detours human curiosity by predisposing us along a certain avenue of thought. It is as if the language we use draws a magic circle around us, a circle from which there is no escape save by stepping out of the circle and drawing or diagramming our thoughts. Try sketching and drawing your ideas and thoughts on General Electric's virtual drawing board.
- Making Thoughts Visible - The explosion of creativity in the Renaissance was intimately tied to the recording and conveying of a vast body of knowledge in a parallel language of drawing and sketching. Galileo revolutionized science by mastering the subtleties of perspective by making his thought visible with diagrams and drawings, while his contemporaries used conventional verbal and algebraic approaches. Test your scribbling and drawing abilities.
- Playing With Numbers - How did it come to pass that Albert Einstein was childlike his whole life? He loved to play games with numbers, always wondering why they behave the way they do. Sometimes, he was able to arrange numbers in such a way that they could trick you. Try the Fido Puzzle and help yourself find a feeling of playful awareness while playing with a few simple numbers that may trick you.
- Hidden Images - It is known that some artists, such as Cezanne and Rodin, often spent a long time staring at their subjects before painting or sculpting them. After a while, their consciousness would find interesting images hidden in the subject. Try a little concentration to find 3D images hidden in the web site's various stereogram pictures.
- Twenty Questions - This familiar game has been taken to a higher level on the the 20Q.net web site. The game is powered by an incredible Artificial Intelligence that thinks up its own questions and generates answers based on what it has learned.
20Q's AI is not pre-programmed, and its "Uncommon Knowledge" is generated when it comes up with something that seems odd and doesn't fit in with what the AI knows. It makes its own judgment calls on how to interpret information, becoming more "intelligent" over time by refining distinctions through play.
You are encouraged to answer based on your initial reaction to questions. The more you play 20Q while focusing on a particular object, the more the AI will learn about it. Pit yourself against the amazing 20Q AI as it learns by playing with you.
- Thinking Machine - This amazing artificial intelligence program explores the invisible, elusive nature of thought, and it is ready to play chess with you. Play against a transparent intelligence, and watch its evolving thought process visible on the board before you.
When you confront the program by moving your chess pieces, the program's thought process is sketched on screen as it responds to your play. A map is created
by tracing literally thousands of possible outcomes as the program tries to decide its best move. The
mapped traces are a key to the invisible lines of force in the game as well as a window into the spirit of a thinking machine.
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