Below are a few articles, pieces of art, and a stray comic covering some projects I've worked on.
Press
AI Neuroscience
Work with collaborators including Anh Nguyen, Jeff Clune, Thomas Fuchs, and Hod Lipson.
Fooling Deep Nets
Work with Anh Nguyen and Jeff Clune.
MIT Technology Review: "Smart" Software Can Be Tricked into Seeing What Isn't There 24 December 2014
American Scientist: Computer Vision and Computer Hallucinations: A peek inside an artificial neural network reveals some pretty freaky images. (see also pdf of print version) Vol 103, Number 6, November 2015
The Daily Mail: Even robots are fooled by optical illusions! Strange images that trick machines could some day help hackers take down networks 18 December 2014
Phys.org: Researchers find a way to fool deep neural networks into 'recognizing' images that aren't there 12 December 2014
Extreme Tech: Bad news, future: Computer brains are easily tricked by optical illusions, too 12 December 2014
Tech Xplore: Researchers find a way to fool deep neural networks into 'recognizing' images that aren't there 12 December 2014
Endless Forms
Work with Jeff Clune, Eugene Doan, Sijie Liu, Nabeel Samad, Nick Cheney, and Hod Lipson.
New Scientist: One Percent: Evolve your own objects for 3D printing (on homepage Aug 20) 19 August 2011
MIT Technology Review: 3-D Design Simplified: A new website could accelerate the adoption of 3-D printing August 25, 2011
Kurzweil AI: Now anyone can design and evolve 3-D printable objects interactively (on homepage) August 26, 2011
Slashdot: Crowdsourcing Speeds Evolution of 3D Printable Objects (On front page, brought us tons of visitors and data, but brought our poor server to its knees!) September 24, 2011
The Jerusalem Post: No technical know-how needed (Israel's best-selling English language paper) 08/25/2011
EurekAlert: No technical know-how needed: Endless Forms website helps users 'breed' 3-D printable objects 17-Aug-2011
Jakajima: Objects on EndlessForms.com are evolved in the same way that plants and animals are bred 26 July 2011
Newswise: No Technical Know-How Needed: Endless Forms Web Site Helps Users 'Breed' 3-D Printable Objects 8/17/2011
Science Daily: No Technical Know-How Needed: Endless Forms Web Site Helps Users 'Breed' 3-D Printable Objects Aug. 18, 2011
8pak: No Technical Know-How Needed: Endless Forms Web Site Helps Users 'Breed' 3-D Printable Objects 18 Aug 2011
Novaator: Teadlased muutsid prinditavate esemete disainimise lihtsamaks (Estonian language) 22.08.2011
Business News Daily: Intelligent Design: Users Power Evolution in 3-D Web Printing (On homepage) 27 Aug 2011
Pressetext: Forscher bauen Roboter mit 3D-Drucker, Neuartiges Verfahren liefert perfekt passgenaue Bauteile (German language) 28.09.2011
3D Printer: Experience Evolution with 3D Modeling and 3D Printing at EndlessForms.com October 4, 2011
Thought controlled and eye-tracking controlled evolution
Quadruped robots and gait learning
Work with Diana Hidalgo, Sarah Nguyen, Juan Zagal, Sara Lohmann, Eric Gold, Jeremy Blum, Jeff Clune, and Hod Lipson.
Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman: Are Robots the Future of Human Evolution? Season 4, episode 7. See our walking robots from 7:00 - 7:45 and 9:40 - 11:10. (unreliable video link) July 10, 2013
Aracna
AI vs. AI chatbots
Work with Igor Labutov and Hod Lipson.
TEDx Hollywood: Talk by George Bloom: Virtual reality -- how the metaverse will change filmmaking (at 9m30) 19 June 2014
Science Channel: Outrageous Acts of Science, Season 2, Episode 12: Hackaverse. Possible video links: 1, 2, 3 (at 25m35). 10 May 2014
Washington Post: Chatbots engage in conversation, decreasing fear that we will soon be overrun by robot overlords Aug 29, 2011
Digital.bg: Кaкво се случва когато два компютъра разговарят помежду си (Russian language) Aug 30, 2011
2ch blog: AIとAIを会話させたらどうなるのか 最後の言葉が怖すぎる (Japanese language, title is roughly "If we try to converse woman AI with man AI... what happens?! The last word of woman AI is too scary.") Aug 30, 2011
NPR's All Things Considered with Robert Siegel: Robot-To-Robot Chat Yields Curious Conversation (First autonomous participant on All Things Considered.) Sept 1, 2011
NBC: Video aired as part of the Current TV show with Keith Olbermann. Aug 31, 2011
io9: Scientists force two chatbots to have a conversation, prove that Skynet will be a moron Aug 29, 2011
Newswise: In a Video-Gone-Viral: Cornell Artificial Intelligence Demo Shows How Chatbots Soon Sink Into Spat, Non Sequiturs and Nonsense Aug 31, 2011
Singularity Hub: AI vs. AI - What Happens When You Make a Chatty Computer Talk To Itself? Cornell Finds Out Aug 31, 2011
Nextcheckt.nl: ‘I’m not a robot. I am a unicorn.’ Wat gebeurt er als twee robots een gesprek met elkaar aangaan (Dutch language, on homepage 8/30) Aug 30, 2011
The Daily Mail: Scientists' avatar creation causes internet storm after 'chatbots' stage world's first conversation Sept 12, 2011
Decoded Science: Chatbots Hold Conversation At Cornell University (Text of interview with Igor Labutov) Sept 18, 2011
Museum of the Weird: World's First Conversation Between Robots Turns to Subject of God Sept 21, 2011
Fan responses
Pasadena Robotics Program
Work with Stephen Crosby, Erik Dreyer, and the Pasadena Education Foundation. See also EliotRobotics.com and PEF STEM.
Pasadena Star News: Fun with robots is teaching Eliot Middle School students math, computing skills Nov 2009