{"id":925,"date":"2009-07-16T08:14:09","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=925"},"modified":"2009-07-16T08:14:09","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T15:14:09","slug":"scifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2009\/07\/16\/scifi\/","title":{"rendered":"scifi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>let&#8217;s say you needed to create intermediaries between us and the other mammals. if a machine can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn17431-computer-learns-sign-language-by-watching-tv.html\">learn sign language<\/a> by watching TV, couldn&#8217;t one learn horse, dolphin or crow? <\/p>\n<p>to do so, it would have to be more than a computer but rather an autonomous robot, capable of following its pack, mimicking gestures, touch. it would also, most likely, have to be introduced to its assignments as a &#8220;newborn.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>whether we&#8217;d ever get instinct right, however, is another matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>let&#8217;s say you needed to create intermediaries between us and the other mammals. if a machine can learn sign language by watching TV, couldn&#8217;t one learn horse, dolphin or crow? to do so, it would have to be more than a computer but rather an autonomous robot, capable of following its pack, mimicking gestures, touch&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}