Hey geeks of London and MIT! We're just starting to get the ball rolling on next year's shows, and submissions are now open. Both shows will be open theme!
Once had a non-programmer ask me "it's just a button, how hard can it be!?" Maybe the button automatically finds a target and fires a cruise missle...at that guy's house :-P
Title text: In the 60s, Marvin Minsky assigned a couple of undergrads to spend the summer programming a computer to use a camera to identify objects in a scene. He figured they'd have the problem solved by the end of the summer. Half a century later, we're still working on it.
Have been reading a bit about AI and what it takes to get a computer to try to do this, and what really impresses me is how easily our brains do it (to the point that it's hard to get them to stop doing it).