| 单词 | automaton |
| 例句 | “If you could capture the animus, the soul in another form . . . Well, you’ve told me about your automatons, Uncle. Bulls, eagles, dragons, horses of bronze. Why not a bronze form for a man?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Hugo continued flipping through the book, seeing if there was anything at all about automata, but the book was silent on the subject. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “It is not far through the Labyrinth. And try to stay alive, will you? Humans are much more fragile than automatons.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Don’t tell me he’s an automaton,” I said. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The only thing I couldn’t bring myself to destroy was the automaton, which I donated to the local museum. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Hugo’s father grew obsessed with getting the automaton to work. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z It was a difficult trip back, with his belongings slung over his shoulder and the blackened, twisted remains of the automaton straining his arms and back. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z But now I have built a new automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The automaton was heavy and in several pieces, but he picked it up and, not having anywhere else to go, returned to the dreaded station. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Then, because he had to get back to Isabelle’s house as quickly as possible, he moved all the boxes away from the automaton’s hiding place. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z When you wind it up, it can do something I’m sure no other automaton in the world can do. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z His skin glinted of gold and silver, as if he were an automaton like Reyna’s dogs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z She wondered how many other statues around the country were secretly automatons, waiting to be triggered. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z And the more he worked on the automaton, the more he came to believe something that he knew was completely crazy. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Suddenly I had a weird thought: Could stone statues be automatons too? The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z He had no idea how he was going to manage it, but he couldn’t wait to bring the automaton to Georges Melies. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z They had a sweet ride made of bronze and iron—eyen the horses, which were magical automatons like the Colchis bulls. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z He quickly opened a bottle nearby and put a few drops in the tiny bottle in the automaton’s hand. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Then the automaton would probably be thrown away or destroyed. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Georges Melies was sitting at a desk that he had dragged to the center of the room, a pen poised in his hand as though he were a giant version of the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z She slipped off Hugo so she could get closer to the automaton, but she kept hold of one of Hugo’s wrists. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Even animals, in Descartes’ view, were just automata. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Of the core three arguments we have distinguished—the corpuscular philosophy, animals as automatons and the clockwork universe—they agree on the first, but each picks one and only one of the other two. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “He described this scene to me. I recognized it when the automaton drew the picture.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He opened the automaton up and carefully disassembled it. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z An undated eighteenth-century handbill announcing an exhibition of three of Vaucanson’s automata: the flute player, the drummer and the digesting duck. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hugo had become a thief to survive and to help the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Hugo reached into his pocket and took out the automaton’s drawing, which he had taped back together, and handed it to the old man, who took it in his shaking hands. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Hugo thought about his father’s description of the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “Good automatons are what she needs. They never act up!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “No one at the museum knows, but the other automata I’ve seen were all built by magicians for use in their performances.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “One ’em automatons, half pocket watch, half tin cup, and half growed man!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z Descartes’ remarkable and novel claim, first stated in the Discourse on Method, was that animals are automata, that is, complex, self-moving machines. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The challenge set by Descartes was, of course, that of building an automaton that could behave like an animal. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Soon Hugo’s father had filled several notebooks with drawings of the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z But even as he worked in his shop, Hugo’s father must have kept thinking about the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The complicated machinery inside my automaton can produce one hundred and fifty-eight different pictures, and it can write, letter by letter, an entire book, twenty-six thousand one hundred and fifty-nine words. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Hugo could see the automaton’s drawing on the desk. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z After all of his father’s hard work, the automaton belonged to him. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “Could be automatons, of course, but probably not” “We’ve met, sir,” I told him. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Hugo and his father began to think of the automaton as an injured animal that they were nursing back to health. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He quickly opened a bottle nearby and put a few drops in the tiny bottle in the automaton’s hand. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z They remained optimistic that it could be fixed, and they talked about what the automaton might write once it was working again. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He pulled a feather from the falcon’s back, and the whole automaton fell apart. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I thought the automaton was gone forever, but I was wrong. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He drew the automaton over and over and over again. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z “We automatons gotta have some fun once in a while, right?” our statue said. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z He hardly got any sleep because at the end of the day, after taking care of the clocks and working at the booth, he would stay up until dawn working on the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z In one corner of the room stood the automaton, which Hugo and Papa Georges had repaired to perfection. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The Lumiere brothers refused my request, so I was forced to build my own, which I did using leftover parts from my automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z They helped transform the way in which philosophers thought about machinery, just as Descartes’ obsession with automata resulted in a new mechanical philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Hugo thought about the little mechanical parts inside the mouse, as well as the other toys that he had stolen and used to fix the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z His hand was hurting, and he knew it was going to be hard to carry the automaton back to the old man, so he stopped at the cafe to get some more ice. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z But later, alone in his room, and while he scurried through the walls fixing the clocks, Hugo thought about the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z The voice was that of an automaton, but deep with meaning. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The automaton my father discovered did save me. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Quack - enbush wasn’t going to let me just do the work for him like the automaton I wished to be. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Hugo ran his fingers along the arm of the automaton and gazed at its face. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Once upon a time, I was a boy named Hugo Cabret, and I desperately believed that a broken automaton would save my life. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Isabelle explained about the automaton and how Hugo had saved it from the fire. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z They were clearly the source of the flames, but they didn’t seem to be automatons. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The frozen automaton was dressed in a black top hat and a bright red ringmaster jacket. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z A moment later, two metal dogs raced toward them—automaton greyhounds, one silver and one gold. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She slipped off Hugo so she could get closer to the automaton, but she kept hold of one of Hugo’s wrists. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z In the beginning I was almost like an automaton, thought- lessly performing the actions that would keep me alive. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He related the whole story, from his father’s discovery of the automaton up in the attic of the museum, to the fire, to the arrival and disappearance of his uncle. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He was fixing to say something, but the fancy automaton conductor standing at the door said, “Sir? We’re trying to make up time.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z He told her about discovering the toys in her godfather’s booth and how he used them to fix the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z If we were not automata at that moment we would continue lying there, exhausted, and without will. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe they reminded him of building the automaton. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z But after the discovery of the automaton, Hugo began to have other ideas. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z He’d never get the message from the automaton now, so he might as well turn himself in to the Station Inspector and be sent to the orphanage. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Regnerus’s argument – which relegates men to brainless automatons whose only on-button for productivity and planning is sex – does little to reinvent or challenge oppressive gender stereotypes. Is marriage really on the decline because of men's cheap access to sex? 2018-06-11T04:00:00Z The film asks us to believe that she is at once an astute storyteller and an emotional automaton entirely lacking in psychological insight. Movie Review: ‘Saving Mr. Banks,’ With Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson 2013-12-12T15:00:18Z With high cheekbones and the penetrating stare of a superior automaton — or maybe just a posh Englishman looking pityingly on the other, mostly-American actors — Cumberbatch infuses Into Darkness with a creepy class. Star Trek Into Darkness: The Young and the Reckless 2013-05-13T19:01:26Z Credit the writers for making Taylor a genuinely complex character rather than a number-crunching automaton who doesn’t fit in at the office. ‘Billions’ Season 2, Episode 10: Nonconformity 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z The old filmmaker is as broken and in need of revival as the automaton, and while you can guess what happens, it’s the getting there — how the clock is wound — that surprises and often delights. | 'Hugo': Martin Scorsese?s ?Hugo,? With Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen - Review 2011-11-22T22:17:26Z But of course, they are automatons, and it’s impossible to care about any of these characters, all of them cobbled together from a superficial trawling of 19th-century theatrical and literary archetypes. A musical whose time has gone: Three Post critics take on ‘Phantom’ 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z They may spout great mouthfuls of academic boilerplate but behave no more interestingly than automatons racing through a video game. Very, Very Bad Things, Very, Very Tiny Packages 2011-03-13T22:52:19Z What did I think that mysterious automaton was going to write? New & Noteworthy 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z But what is unusual about Sam Walters's production is that it treats the characters as real people rather than whirling automata. Sauce for the Goose – review 2013-01-08T16:05:55Z It was a “sumo” robot, designed to knock other automatons down. These girls have built robots since they were toddlers. Now they’re competing on a world stage. 2017-07-16T04:00:00Z The film itself is based on Brian Selznick's award-winning "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," an illustrated novel about a Parisian boy and a broken automaton with a secret buried inside its mechanical memory. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z The dismembered automaton is delivered to Catherine Gehrig in eight tea chests by a colleague who believes that reassembling it will distract her from her grief. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z He came to Philadelphia and repaired the automaton that museum officials feared was irreparable. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z Here are magic rings, caves of wonder, jinn, astrologers, flying horses, deadly automatons and wicked viziers. In these medieval Arab tales, a heavy dollop of spice 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z At first, we follow the hit man around the globe as he goes from assignment to assignment, describing the physical experience of being an automaton in the spooky new world. ‘Spark,’ the Latest Dystopian Novel From John Twelve Hawks 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z His dad had been repairing a mysterious automaton, and Hugo needs to connect with him by finishing the job. Hugo: Scorsese's Magnificent Dream Machine 2011-11-22T20:39:54Z Suspended plastic cherries bobbed up and down as Ms. Gill belted a song that consisted mostly of the automaton’s name: Cherry Babe. A Club for Aerialists and Clowns Moves to Manhattan 2021-11-18T05:00:00Z What happens when someone is seen as the perfect kind of human automaton? Stop calling Asians "robotic" please 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Mindful of the political appropriation and abuse of sport and its venues by 20th-century dictators, he relocates the opera to a modern stadium, where Caligula's terrorised subjects cheer him on and wave flags like automata. Caligula – review 2012-05-27T16:55:01Z Highlights are Tippoo's Tiger, an automaton showing the beast killing a man in the South Asia room, and Kylie's dressing room transplanted, complete with half-used lip gloss, into the Theatre and Performance gallery. 1000 kids | Art and design museums 2010-03-30T23:05:00Z The author learned of the Philadelphia automaton while researching his book and contacted The Franklin Institute. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z A bug infested Washington: not the flu, but an actual bug that crawled into people’s ears, took over their brains and turned them into empty-headed automatons. The Best TV Shows of 2016 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Does the desk clerk sound like a corporate automaton? The Condescending Compassion of Charlie Kaufman’s “Anomalisa” 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z A guy in California runs a factory that makes life-size erotic automata. Anna Kendrick: real girl in la-la land 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z Look out, too, for a reproduction of an 18th-century automaton in the form of a life-size turbaned figure sitting at a chess board. Review | The Met is the world’s greatest art museum. Three under-the-radar shows confirm it — again. 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z He described the Chinese nation as "herd-like" and "often more like automatons than people." Albert Einstein was known for speaking out against racism, his travel diaries reveal racist views 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z If we truly followed their advice, we would become mere automatons, disregarding our complex emotions—and, not to mention, reason and common sense—to express an invariable and unquestioned feeling of gratitude. Stop selling me gratitude: Jane Austen called BS on this tyranny of the status quo 200 years ago 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z So he assigns her to reassemble the pieces of a clockwork automaton, some kind of a bird that is more than 150 years old. Books of The Times: ?The Chemistry of Tears,? a Novel by Peter Carey 2012-05-21T03:47:19Z He’s like some super automaton who has been thrust into their midst both to mock and eliminate them. | 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying': Wizard of Corporate Climbing 2011-03-28T02:00:00Z And I felt a little like that now: an automaton, holding a nonsense sign, trying to sell something. I felt the love – finally – at the Women's March, but what do we do tomorrow? 2017-01-22T05:00:00Z But its portrait of people surviving in a social climate so ruled by fear that they move and talk like automatons speaks for itself. Film: New Directors/New Films Offers ?I Am Love? 2010-03-30T21:33:00Z That was the Rodrigo from two and a half years ago, when she was reintroducing herself to the world as a human after a stretch as a Disney actress automaton. Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Vampire’ Takes a Note From Taylor Swift: Leave a Mark 2023-07-04T04:00:00Z Where the dancers resembled automatons before, now they admit inklings of human individuality. Review: ‘For Claude Shannon’ Visualizes the Links Between Text and Movement 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z Then there are stalwarts like Anthony Daniels, who has played the anxious automaton C-3PO in all nine “Star Wars” saga films, and found himself bewildered by the movies’ increasing complexity. Will ‘Star Wars’ Stick the Landing? J.J. Abrams Will Try 2019-12-11T05:00:00Z Because that thug is played by the British action automaton Jason Statham, the movie is obliged to include a fair amount of ultraviolence to satisfy that star’s carnivorous fan base. Movie Review: In ‘Redemption,’ Jason Statham Teams With a Nun 2013-06-28T00:22:12Z David Attenborough avoided clumsy anthropomorphism or the tendency to attribute morality or consciousness to creatures such as Franzi and I, who are essentially automatons driven by need and instinct. What does the insect community make of ITV's celebrity freak show? 2012-11-25T00:05:45Z Suhrkamp's illustrious authors are grappling for ever more exotic metaphors to attack one of the two, minority shareholder Hans Barlach, whom they describe as "a blunt automaton" and "an abyss of evil". Authors join tug-of-war at top German publishing house Suhrkamp Verlag 2013-01-25T07:00:01Z Here is a man who studied sound, Asian languages, Egyptology, invented automata, wrote dozens of books and created his own museum in Rome. Museum Review: Museum of Jurrasic Technology Shows Its Wild Side - Review 2012-01-09T23:12:21Z It's the fact that she has to deal with her own flaws that turn her from an automaton to a person with moral agency. How ‘The Good Place’ Became an Antihero Antidote 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z On Nov. 19 a sale run by Theriault’s Antique Doll Auctions at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel will offer automata including musicians, courtiers and clowns. Antiques: Shenanigans of Folk Art Collecting; Art Nouveau Nudes 2011-11-03T21:08:07Z After phoning for some minutes, and navigating a multiple-choice automaton, I spoke to a human being, and asked to be put through to the manager. Waterstone's has forgotten what bookselling is about 2010-09-06T11:27:00Z This automaton language of Pinker's sounds a bit like Descartes. Marilynne Robinson: Can science solve life's mysteries? 2010-06-04T23:06:00Z His classmates’ exaggerated gestures and facial expressions suggest those of silent actors or automatons. My streaming gem: why you should watch Institute Benjamenta 2020-06-19T04:00:00Z You might think that the contrast would be in the humans’ favor, but it is the little automatons who capture the audience’s hearts. Review: In ‘ROBOT,’ Machines Perform With Humans at BAM 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Lacey has been oddball comedian, actor, painter and sculptor, briccolage inventor of robots and automata, post-hippy shaman, errant guru to travelling bands of new age travellers, and who knows what else. The Bruce Lacey Experience - review 2012-07-06T17:08:31Z He despises the forces, industrial and ideological, that reduce people to machines or automatons. Review | A fascinating look inside the journal of a controversial German war hero 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The basic setup is this: A seemingly innocent family goes to the fair and stops by an old-fashioned barrel organ ornamented with a herky-jerky dancing automaton. Paul Taylor’s Canon: Flippant, Savage, Idyllic 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z But they’re no longer simply comic automatons, careening through a senseless world. ‘The Old Woman,’ With Willem Dafoe and Mikhail Baryshnikov 2014-06-23T04:00:00Z The nightmarish automaton's signature phrase, "You have 20 seconds to comply" became so iconic it was even sampled for a classic rave tune by Silver Bullet which made the UK top 20 in 1990. Has Robocop remake malfunctioned? 2012-07-09T13:54:30Z His keen insight into both automatons and organic foods stems from his immersion in the San Francisco tech culture and collaboration with his partner Kathryn Tomajan on products like Fat Gold olive oil. Jeff Vandermeer on the delicious satire of 'Sourdough' by Robin Sloan 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z These included fine automated music boxes, musical automatons and mechanical musical instruments. A Master Emerges From Humble Means 2012-09-04T15:23:10Z Every object in the new display has been part of the historic line at some point, including a little wooden figure in armour who may be part of an ancient automaton clock. Tower of London's Line of Kings continues 400-year-old narrative 2013-07-07T14:40:26Z At Toad Hall, lair of the multibillionaire Baron Aristotle Krapaud, a cabal of fat cats is plotting the overthrow of the French state by automaton soldiers. Best graphic novels of 2012 2012-11-30T11:00:01Z It was first used to refer to automatons by the Czech playwright, Karel Capek, who repurposed a word that had referred to a system of indentured servitude or serfdom. Why Do We Hurt Robots? 2019-01-19T05:00:00Z It gathers together some 120 sculptures, dolls, artist’s dummies, effigies, crucifixes and automatons. 23 Art Exhibitions to View in NYC This Weekend 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z Helena pushes a wheelchair containing an automaton — a robot in human form. Review: ‘Universal Robots,’ a Sci-Fi Love Story in Slo-Mo 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z You aren’t paid enough to care about your patrons, especially the rude ones who think you are an automaton and should act like one, but you do. Rant&Rave: Oh no! Kitten trapped in dashboard 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z While Mr. Rose makes an impassioned case for his own and his neighbors’ humanity, Mr. Rivera rolls on like an automaton, unable to deviate from his preprogrammed, sensationalist goal. What to See in New York City Galleries This Week 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z Haitian rituals are often cited as their origin: voodoo rituals producing animated corpses or mindless automatons. Warm Bodies: what our love affair with zombies says about us 2013-02-08T15:00:05Z But for every good-hearted automaton, there’s a malicious artificial intelligence just biding its time to usher in the inevitable age of the machine. The good, the bad and the cyborgs: Westworld's robot forbears 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z “It’s like ‘The Elephant Man’ — ‘I am a human being!’” he said, emphasizing that he’s more than just a ballad automaton. Lewis Capaldi Will Break Your Heart. (But Don’t Take Him Too Seriously.) 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z In HBO’s “Westworld,” adapted from Michael Crichton’s thriller, lifelike automatons are subjugated in a world of declining morals and brutal economic disparity. They Create Nightmare Worlds for TV. Now They’re Living in One. 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z THE Murtogh D. Guinness Collection of mechanical musical instruments and automata at the Morris Museum here received national attention after Martin Scorsese’s film “Hugo,” which appeared last November. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z Rather than a spectacular pageant of automatons, we got a celebration of Britain and its unique place in the world. Reader reviews: your take on Much Ado about Nothing and Danny Boyle's Olympic ceremony 2012-08-03T17:33:40Z In the video, Clark stands in for Metropolis’ automaton, complete with mechanized movements — all geometric lines and robotic stare. Music Video of the Week: St. Vincent, “Digital Witness” 2014-02-05T23:27:45Z Selznick said he was thrilled to have played a part in getting Maillardet's automaton out of the basement and into public view. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z The New Statesman's critic wrote: "Tonight is about watching a talented person labouring under levels of fame and physical pressure so severe they turn you from a performer into a panting automaton." 'We were all Justin Bieber fans and now we hate him' 2013-03-05T19:03:37Z Just know that unless you are a meek automaton you will encounter disapproval. Small minds crimp my style 2012-11-28T01:00:00Z To build the mechanical works, he later established a factory in Switzerland, where he employed artisans accustomed to making watches, music boxes and automatons. Victor Salvi, Who Played Harps and Made Them Too, Dies at 95 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z He sees humanity approaching a reckoning with itself, as we turn more of our high-level thought over to software and more of our physical function to automatons. Do you trust your computer? New film explores perils of technology 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z Selznick was permitted to see the automaton in its sorry state, with its head detached and its hand unable to write or draw. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z Brandling's story of his travels in Germany and commissioning the automaton from a mysterious German clockmaker are less compelling, but it adds texture to the plight of the novel's central character. 'The Chemistry of Tears': the mournful mechanics of a broken heart 2012-05-16T18:45:09Z Constructed in the 16th century and now running on a mechanism from the 1800s, the multistory, many-tiered clock is outfitted with biblical automatons, Zodiac imagery, elemental motifs, religious statues and moving dials. 36 Hours in Strasbourg, France 2014-12-17T05:00:00Z It created a little artificial world in which the dancers appeared as unhappy automatons. Beijing Dance Theater’s ‘Wild Grass’ at the Kennedy Center: A superficial spectacle Catherine toils over the automaton with the help of her brainy but flighty assistant Amanda. 'The Chemistry of Tears': the mournful mechanics of a broken heart 2012-05-16T18:45:09Z Journalists are human beings not stenographers, human beings not automatons. This Tom Hanks Story Will Help You Feel Less Bad 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z And in my film, the cinema itself is the connection – the automaton, the machine itself becomes the emotional connection between the boy, his father, Méliès, and his family. Interview: Martin Scorsese 2010-11-21T00:06:00Z “I don’t want automatons who are programmed to execute dance steps,” he said. Silas Farley to Lead Dance Academy in Los Angeles 2021-02-24T05:00:00Z That’s one of the questions the playwright Mac Rogers asks in his adaptation of Karel Capek’s 1921 play about humans and automatons. Theater Listings for June 3-9 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z Prepare for rebellious automatons, a 300-year-old opera singer, and a pack of newts taking a page from Ira Glass. Mutual Inspirations Festival 2015 celebrates Czech writer Karel Capek 2015-09-02T04:00:00Z But the automaton, a mechanical doll animated by a complex system of spring-driven motors and brass cams, can write three poems and draw four pictures. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z Senta, rather than being the strangest woman in a crowd of sensible ones, is here the only normal human being on a stage full of factory-worker automatons. Critic’s Notebook: Evgeny Nikitin and Wagner’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ 2012-07-26T21:52:31Z After all, drama in which the antagonists were mere automatons would hardly be big box-office. The Adjustment Bureau's will won't be done 2011-03-07T10:57:44Z The mechanical objects up for auction include “Neppy,” Jay’s smartly dressed automaton and veteran of hundreds of performances around the world in his stage show, “Ricky Jay & His 52 Assistants.” A magical trove of Ricky Jay ephemera hits auction block 2021-10-23T04:00:00Z Having escaped the small automatons he had come to the museum to see, Mr. Rogers toyed with a puzzle wall and glanced at an exhibit on fractals before settling upstairs to discuss his work. The Playwright Mac Rogers Explores Robots, Aliens and Allegory 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z “A long time ago they became automatons. If they aren’t causing damage, they don’t exist.” Review | ‘Homeland’ captures the personal costs of Spain’s violent political conflict 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z In the end the dancers are more like automatons than human beings, which is too bad; they’re a comely, well-trained bunch. Dance Review: Slapped, Stamped and Delivered 2011-02-23T23:12:03Z "The automaton lived the story that I had created in my imagination," Selznick said. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z In Frédérique Michel’s staging, the performers are given little to do, other than some sporadic stylized movement that makes them look like automatons. Modern life is a fragmented place in 'Carmen Disruption' at City Garage 2017-09-15T04:00:00Z In the pilot, polyglot alliances are tricky as humans and some races of aliens must reluctantly brush aside differences to protect the town from automatons known as the Volge. Sci-fi TV show ''Defiance'' dovetails drama with video game 2013-04-08T18:58:51Z Mindless automatons driven by instinct and appetite, they are also carriers. Review | George Romero’s posthumous epic, ‘The Living Dead,’ reads like a definitive account of the zombie apocalypse 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z “One had the uncomfortable feeling that a little automaton was on stage.” Paul Zukofsky, Virtuoso Violinist and Literary Executor, Dies at 73 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Famously a lover of toys, automata, fakes of all kinds, he sought beauty through distillation and control. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z Nineteenth-century European audiences flocked to see theatrical automatons, like the one recently popularized in Martin Scorsese’s film “Hugo.” Robot and Human Actors Take Bows Together 2012-07-06T04:57:20Z When it comes to the dangers posed to us by automatons, film-maker Maxim Pozdorovkin wants us to start thinking beyond what Hollywood has warned us about. The Truth About Killer Robots: the year's most terrifying documentary 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Videos show the automaton in action; it's not up for a grueling daily performance schedule because of its advanced age and delicate constitution. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z It turns Christian, who is autistic, into a grim automaton mumbling gibberish and prone to tantrums. Review: In ‘The Accountant,’ a Savant With Daddy Issues Has a Dark Secret 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Because this is a Quay Brothers movie, they also seem like automatons, something between men and machines. The Week Ahead: Aug. 19 — 25 2012-08-17T20:40:22Z It was made in England around 1800 and traveled throughout Europe as far as St. Petersburg for 40-odd years in touring shows of automata and other mechanical marvels. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z Are the spymasters brainwashing gullible young Americans and rebooting them as horrifying mindless death automatons with amazing free-running skills all over again? Five things we learned from the debut trailer for Jason Bourne 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z Everyone else, however, is an automaton character, answering a given input with a predetermined — and replicable — output. ‘Bandersnatch,’ ‘The Sopranos,’ and the Myth of Certainty 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z In “Charlotte Simmons” Wolfe’s style has become rote, a delivery system for the author’s own theories, and the youth, sexual automatons, have no style at all. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe’s ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons’ sounded the death knell for New Journalism 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z But what's most interesting about "Rise of the Robots" is that it isn't actually a narrative about the imminent triumph of soulless automatons. 'Rise of the Robots' and the threat of a jobless future 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Cramer and director Chris Alexander put that spin in the opera’s first act, a flashback to Hoffmann’s youthful romance with a pretty automaton, Olympia. Costumes help tell ‘The Tales of Hoffmann’ at Seattle Opera 2014-04-23T19:38:37Z Like in his story, the Philadelphia automaton was broken and once damaged in a fire. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z The automaton was designed with a stage magician’s style in mind, for viewers would logically think that there might be some human hidden inside. Are robots moving sculptures? On Art, illusion and artificial intelligence 2017-08-13T04:00:00Z A giant automaton with spotlight eyes seems the source of the key design in “The Iron Giant.” ‘The King and the Mockingbird,’ From Paul Grimault 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z The mischievous, manic clown, beckoning us to follow him to a comic three-ring circus, has shriveled to an unreadable automaton with cringing body language. Review: Robin Williams as a Hustler-Hiring Husband in ‘Boulevard’ 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z Photograph: Dylan Martinez/REUTERS Halfway through the previous decade, young women in pop tended to be well-groomed, well-tuned automatons, free of the grit and guts that you usually get with us girls. The best No 1 records: Lily Allen - Smile 2012-05-31T20:06:00Z Mr. Baker’s broad-brush portrait of such musicians as alienated, downtrodden, joyless automatons, however it may apply to his assessment of El Sistema, was simply not one I recognized. ‘El Sistema: Orchestrating Venezuela’s Youth,’ by Geoffrey Baker 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z Emerson’s instrument is a towering monolith with patch cords hanging off it like an automaton’s viscera, and it highlights how the story of popular music is bound to technology. The Art of Rock: Four Museums Explore How We Connect to Music 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z The Guinness automata drew my family to the Morris Museum, but by the time we left I was embarked on an entirely unforeseen research project. Classical: Puccini Opera Echoes a Music Box at the Morris Museum 2012-06-17T01:03:03Z In an extra flourish of showmanship, Maillardet programmed the automaton to pause at times, lifting its hand from the paper and raising its head, as if contemplating what to do next. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z Penniman, who vividly recalls seeing the automaton in The Franklin Institute as a boy in the 1930s, said it has fascinated children and adults for two centuries. Pa. museum automaton has link to Scorcese's 'Hugo' 2012-02-22T17:21:13Z Apple’s commercial of marching automatons turned out to be the prescient and prevailing one. Crazy Eddie’s Life Was Insane! 2022-08-09T04:00:00Z The automaton is all that remains of a happy past. | 'Hugo': Martin Scorsese?s ?Hugo,? With Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen - Review 2011-11-22T22:17:26Z It’s as if Winterson is at pains to remind us that issues around gender, notions of the self and fears of automatons supplanting human agency are not new concerns — they’re as old as Ovid’s “Metamorphoses.” A Novel That Riffs on Sex Dolls, Mary Shelley and Brexit 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z A man sinks gradually to the floor, the music slows to a repetitive note and all turn slowly, like automatons, upstage. Dance Review: Lyon Opera Ballet Offers a Premiere by Rachid Ouramdane 2014-02-26T22:22:22Z And when they did, the automatons were eerily real. Gallery Hopes to Sell Kanye West’s ‘Famous’ Sculpture for $4 Million 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z He became something of an automaton of power. With Different Singers, One Opera Classic Can Seem Like Two 2023-01-11T05:00:00Z The effect is uncanny, like a disconnected but still buzzing nervous system: an automaton that is little more than a pound of flesh. Bone, organs, scars: At Hannah Hoffman, a surreal and sculptural exploration of the body 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Recent archaeological discoveries, they write, show that early humans, far from being automatons blindly moving in evolutionary lock step in response to material pressures, self-consciously experimented with “a carnival parade of political forms.” What if Everything You Learned About Human History Is Wrong? 2021-10-31T04:00:00Z Hugo has been repairing the automaton with mechanical parts salvaged from the toys he has stolen from a toy store in the station. | 'Hugo': Martin Scorsese?s ?Hugo,? With Ben Kingsley and Sacha Baron Cohen - Review 2011-11-22T22:17:26Z Orphan Hugo Cabret lives in a train station and becomes involved in a mystery involving an automaton that belonged to his late father. Oscars: Best picture nominees 2012-01-24T17:21:48Z Much like the figurines in old-fashioned automaton clocks, they enter at the appointed time, execute clever bits of business and exit, leaving no impression other than admiration for clockmaker’s skill. ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ Review: Desire, Once Upon a Time 2022-08-25T04:00:00Z Aura is hardly the only robot in Vegas, a town where automatons will make you a cocktail and serve you cookies and milk. The Las Vegas Sphere interior's first film is both mind-blowing and Disneyfied 2023-10-12T04:00:00Z The questions make my heart hurt, mostly because I’m just another random scientist swimming against a tide that prefers that we all become fundraising automatons. Nobel Prize Debate Misses the Mark on the Real Culprits Ignoring Scientific Merit 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z That’ll come in handy as he explores a decadent Gilded Age city that’s filled with hostile, corrupted automatons as well as more supernatural monsters. What to stream this week: Drake, Doja Cat, ‘Sex Education,’ ‘The Super Models’ and ‘Superpower’ 2023-09-17T04:00:00Z Unfortunately, it turned out once again that a colorless automaton wasn't quite the winning personality everyone was looking for. A new GOP tradition: Frontrunner to dud 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Perhaps the message was hinting at the aliens’ appearance, morse code, cellular automata or the genetic secrets of E.T. Can You Decode an Alien Message? 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z The conventional wisdom about insects has been that they are automatons—unthinking, unfeeling creatures whose behavior is entirely hardwired. Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain? 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z As Tom Standage has argued in his book The Turk, the public's reaction to the automaton in 1820s "foreshadowed" our own reaction to modern digital automatons. From "holy hype" to AI sentience, tech has a history of inflating its potential 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z Applying pen to paper, the mathematicians constructed the concept of cellular automata, dynamical entities made up of shaded or unshaded cells skipping across a two-dimensional grid. Life Evolves. Can Attempts to Create ‘Artificial Life’ Evolve, Too? 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z One example: it shows up as an “eventual period of a single cell in rule 110 cellular automaton in a cyclic universe of width n.” The Most Boring Number in the World Is ... 2023-03-03T05:00:00Z He's a dour, withdrawn, cold automaton who many people who know him really can't stand. DeSantis is the second coming of Nixon 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z We carry out chores on our to-do lists like automatons, displaying what Dennett calls “competence without comprehension.” Can Quantum Mechanics Quell the Holiday Blues? 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z An obvious place to begin is "The Turk," which was a chess playing automaton. From "holy hype" to AI sentience, tech has a history of inflating its potential 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z The link between these cellular automata and the pursuit of artificial life grew stronger when, more than two decades later, mathematician John Conway designed the Game of Life. Life Evolves. Can Attempts to Create ‘Artificial Life’ Evolve, Too? 2023-04-06T04:00:00Z Wouldn’t it be surprising if this is how I discover I am not a human being, but a bloodless automaton? Could I Survive the ‘Quietest Place on Earth’? 2022-11-23T05:00:00Z This one has good bones, but just as David and Georgia are starting to get back together — you saw that coming, didn’t you? — they too turn into automatons of a sort. Review | ‘Ticket to Paradise’: Plot of Bali-set rom-com is skimpy as a bikini 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z Recent research suggests that plants are far from the stationary automatons that most of us think of them as. Why some scientists believe plants may have consciousness 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z The only place that grass grew in designer Jonathan Anderson’s fashion dystopia was literally out of shoes, where green blades quivered and flapped surreally as the automatons filed by. Loewe’s presents dystopian future at Paris Fashion Week 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z Partisan automatons do not serve the people, they serve the party. Summer homework: Voters, start your vetting for Aug. 2 primary 2022-06-17T04:00:00Z We become like zombies or automatons, carrying out chores and interacting with other people—even those we supposedly love—without being fully aware of what we are doing. When Things Feel Unreal, Is That a Delusion or an Insight? 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Image: Public Domain Before they were surrogates for class fear, though, automata in Europe were spectacles. A visit to the human factory 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Or you call a customer service number and a chirpy automaton asks the same thing. Ending the Chatbot’s ‘Spiral of Misery’ 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z It became clear he was not a statistical automaton; he was much deeper, with a career shaped by his relationship with two women: his mother and his wife, Pat. Perspective | John Clayton, fueled by passion for football and people, was more than stats and scoops 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z Blockish and white, standing about chest-high, automatons patrol venues and media hotels. China strives to flex its tech innovations to worldwide audience at Olympics 2022-02-19T05:00:00Z "They have used you as automatons," Vigano said in his appeal to the military and police. Italy chief chaplain condemns call for COVID disobedience by police 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z As with the robots built by Engineered Arts, these automata inspired a range of reactions. A visit to the human factory 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z "Seeing that they can be engaged, that they're not just cat automatons, that aren't driven by instinct 24/7 can function a great deal positively for their role in other studies." A "talking" cat is giving scientists insight into how felines think 2021-12-12T05:00:00Z Their actions, however, belie their true goal: the mass production of right-wing automatons who unthinkingly support unjust and authoritarian systems. Republicans' war on education is the most crucial part of their push for fascism 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z The initial European castle / church vibe, with fights against goblins and automatons, soon gives way to an idyllic ancient Chinese landscape, including a gorgeous harbor town filled with agents of intrigue. The best games to play this Thanksgiving weekend 2021-11-25T05:00:00Z One of the most affordable automatons developed thus far was built by a group of university students using widely available off-the-shelf materials. Firefighting Robots Go Autonomous 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z As you get used to treating human-like automata as automata, you may slowly find yourself treating humans the same. A visit to the human factory 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z Their bodies had been used as automatons to perform unspeakable labors. Dancing Through New York in a Summer of Joy and Grief 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z After all, life is already full of digital mirrors — of avatars and social media feeds that are supposed to embody “you” in various forms — so why not add a speaking automaton to the mix? Everyone will be able to clone their voice in the future 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z To Descartes, this sort of reflexive behavior suggested that animals were “automata,” essentially mindless machines that lacked the subjective experience of a conscious self. Opinion | I Can’t Stop Wondering What’s Going On Inside My Cat’s Head 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z Being autistic does not turn you into an automaton, and it certainly does not strip you of agency. "Autism is not a disease — it's a disability": Journalist Eric Garcia debunks autism myths 2021-08-22T04:00:00Z As he boots up the machine’s operating system on a laptop, the automaton comes to life. A visit to the human factory 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z It wouldn’t be hard to make a decent automaton — something on the level of Disney’s more advanced theme park models, for example. Don’t overthink it: Elon Musk’s Tesla Bot is a joke 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z He also weighed in on the rampant quackery of the time, such as a traveling showman's claim to have designed a chess-playing automaton. Edgar Allan Poe’s engagement with American science 2021-07-25T04:00:00Z Conway’s inclinations and talent led him to invent a remarkable cellular automaton called the Game of Life, which continues to fascinate after 50 years. For Math Fans: Some Puzzles from Game of Life Creator John Conway 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z For much of the 20th century, nonhuman creatures were seen as essentially biological automatons that responded in certain instinctual ways to external stimulus, but lacked the rich inner lives and selfhood that humans possess. Review | Eye-opening acts of empathy in the animal kingdom 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z Looking over the history of automata, there’s one particular type of robot that Ameca reminds me of: the robotic saint. A visit to the human factory 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z In a sport full of corporate automatons, he will sit down and tell you what’s on his mind, even if it’s a lot. Perspective | A decade after collapsing, Rory McIlroy is still trying to get off the deck at the Masters 2021-04-08T04:00:00Z The algorithm takes its cue from the “Game of Life,” a so-called cellular automaton. Watch artificial intelligence grow a walking caterpillar in Minecraft 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z If physicists end up like information-processing automatons, what hope is there for the rest of us? Quantum Mechanics, the Chinese Room Experiment and the Limits of Understanding 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Conventional cellular automata, including Life, are strictly local, in the sense that what happens in one cell depends on what happens in its neighboring cells. Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and the Game of Life 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z There are numerous examples of such religious automata from the late medieval era onwards, including life-size sculptures of Christ and the Virgin Mary that were equipped with articulated limbs and animated by puppetry or clockwork. A visit to the human factory 2022-05-04T04:00:00Z As the opening bars of Starboy rang out, the cityscape parted to reveal the singer, bathed in light, performing surrounded by a choir of red-eyed automatons. Super Bowl Halftime show: How did The Weeknd do? 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z In a paper posted on the preprint server arXiv this month, researchers presented a system that uses neural cellular automata in 3D, and with 50 kinds of blocks, including some that act like pistons. Watch artificial intelligence grow a walking caterpillar in Minecraft 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z They process symbols in ways that simulate human thinking, but they are actually mindless automatons. Quantum Mechanics, the Chinese Room Experiment and the Limits of Understanding 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z That is, you cannot predict in advance what the cellular automata are going to do, you can only watch and see what happens. Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and the Game of Life 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z The Game of Life motivated the use of cellular automata in the rich field of complexity science, with simulations modeling everything from ants to traffic, clouds to galaxies. The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Oliveira’s characters may be archly cynical automatons, but there is something immensely touching about their inability to be touched. Best 2020 double feature: Two favorite discoveries in film's toughest year 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z When it comes to judges, I don’t believe any operate without a moral framework, like perfect legal automatons. How faith shapes my politics 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z Buncombe’s perspective after his nine-hour arrest is that our justice system is an unthinking automaton. When reporters get arrested in Seattle and get a view from inside the criminal justice machine 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z A cellular automaton is a grid of cells whose states depend on the states of neighboring cells, as determined by preset rules. Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and the Game of Life 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z But, says Vanmechelen, the automatons have actually become more useful now the hospital has resumed normal operations and the number of staff available to handle incoming patients has been reduced. After the pandemic, doctors want their new robot helpers to stay 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z CNN’s Collins pressed forward like an automaton in a recent exchange with Trump about a whistleblower’s accusations. Reporters Alcindor, Collins, Jiang get under Trump’s skin 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Kraftwerk’s fantasy of watching their own music performed by automatons became reality. Kraftwerk: their 30 greatest songs, ranked! 2020-05-07T04:00:00Z Yet steampunk characters extend these inventions into futuristic technologies, including automata and time machines. Quantum Steampunk: 19th-Century Science Meets Technology of Today 2020-04-20T04:00:00Z And if so, might these cellular automata provide even more support for free will than the Game of Life? Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and the Game of Life 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z In his liberal graduate education school, at Stanford University, the highest-achieving, no-excuses charters were often seen as a right-wing plot that chewed up young teachers and treated children like automatons. Perspective | Uncommon Schools are demanding for students and teachers. This teacher likes it that way. 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z And he invented the cellular automaton Game of Life, which is among the most beautiful mathematical models of computation. John Horton Conway, a ‘Magical Genius’ in Math, Dies at 82 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z Perhaps we are preprogrammed automatons, or the particles under observation diabolically influence our decisions. Why physicists still don’t know what reality is 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z Generally, “Frozen” lacked the automaton precision of most Broadway performances, instead offering more of these moments of genuine emotion — a net gain in my opinion. ‘Frozen’ at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre: Does Disney’s hit film work on stage? 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z Yes, researchers have created many cellular automata that incorporate quantum effects, including nonlocality. Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and the Game of Life 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Picnic’s automaton is undeniably fun and impressive to watch. We made pizza. We made robots. Why not robot pizza? 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z Where originally Sims were miniature automatons, later they developed personalities, aspirations and foibles alongside their basic needs for food, money and toilet facilities. The Sims at 20: two decades of life, love and reorganising the kitchen 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z I think people think we are these nerdy automatons, and that is totally not true. Seattle-based genome scientist gets to ‘play with DNA’ | Produced by Advertising Publications 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Huxley, described human beings as “conscious automata” with no free will. How a Flawed Experiment "Proved" that Free Will Doesn't Exist 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z But, predictably, experts disagree on whether nonlocal cellular automata bolster the case for free will. Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and the Game of Life 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Many of them require physical action, and those are the jobs that will probably be replaced by automatons. What happens if your mind lives for ever on the internet? 2019-10-20T04:00:00Z The story about him working as a rubbish picker in the Paris suburbs as a child feeds into this notion of some humble, saintly automaton. N’Golo Kanté: so much more than just the Premier League’s best midfielder | Barney Ronay 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z In so many sports, players fill the role of performing automaton. The League They Told You Not to Worry About 2019-10-02T04:00:00Z Trump’s regime of cruelty is not being enacted by faceless robots or automatons. Creator of Stanford Prison Experiment on Trump's camps: It's how Nazi guards behaved 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z No physics model—not even the most complex, nonlocal cellular automaton--can capture my rational and, yes, emotional motives for believing in free will, but that doesn’t mean these motives lack causal power. Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and the Game of Life 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z Handing more and more responsibilities over to automatons is a recipe for disaster. Editorials from around Ohio 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z My daughters spent weeks on it each school year for several years of their education, as if training to become automatons. The Math Equation That Tried to Stump the Internet 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z He plans to expand his crew with more automatons, which pay back the investment in about 18 months. New, more agile robots speed the takeover of jobs once done only by humans 2019-07-13T04:00:00Z Yes, there will be ways to protect oneself against being "faked" by doing things such as wearing a live cellular automaton tie. A Few Thoughts about Deep Fakes 2019-06-27T04:00:00Z The Times focuses on the enduring influence of the Game of Life, a cellular automaton invented by Conway more than a half century ago. Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and the Game of Life 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z When I was first working on one-dimensional cellular automata, I wanted to find a good name for them. Remembering Murray Gell-Mann 2019-06-06T04:00:00Z He had previously commissioned several dinosaur automatons for theme parks from a factory in Sichuan. 'Dumping Trump' robot being sent to UK 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Belgium’s is a bizarre prison for twisted versions of old-fashioned automata advertising trades or crafts – knife-grinders, potters, cooks. Climate to fake news: Venice Biennale takes on era's big challenges 2019-05-10T04:00:00Z Cancer cells are automatons that act because of corrupted software, not evil purpose. The return of cancer’s magic bullet 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z But like all automatons, AI systems are tireless and produce a never-ending stream of images. A never-ending stream of AI art goes up for auction 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z But as the discontent over smaller refunds shows, actual humans — as opposed to the rational automatons of economics textbooks — don’t view it that way. Why People Are Outraged at Lower Tax Refunds (but Probably Shouldn’t Be) 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z As it happens, it is an army of automatons conceived and created by tech firms on the coasts and unleashed on middle America, potentially spurring a deepening us versus them mentality. Andrew Yang: the 2020 candidate warning of the rise of robots 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z Parents today are more likely to wonder whether unhealthy amounts of stress are turning their children into emotionally dampened automatons. In China, This Video Game Lets You Be a Tiger Mom or a Driven Dad 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z They ran through the report like two automaton ancestors, yet all the while, Hamza peered at him with the glowing gold eyes of his comm apparition, his redundancy ghost. An artificial life form carries the seeds of humanity to a new world 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z The fantasy elements are for the most part underplayed, though there are “airships,” which are held aloft by balloons, and clockwork automata, along with, of course, the tower itself. In the "The Hod King," a man goes on a mystical quest when his wife vanishes on their steampunkish honeymoon 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z I argued that caffeine transforms us into automatons, zombie drones, cogs in the capitalist machine. A Former Java Junkie Ponders Coffee's Upside 2019-01-12T05:00:00Z But the Bible represents humans neither as automata – the slaves of God – nor as miraculous sages, endowed with all the knowledge they need to make the inevitably correct decisions. Elon Musk wants to put chips in our brains. I'd prefer to stay human 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z Among them was Talos, a bronze automaton forged by Hephaestus, god of metalworking, to guard the island of Crete. Review | Dreaming of artificial intelligence in ancient Greece and Silicon Valley 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z According to this theory, the body is a sort of automaton. Human rights for the 21st century: by Margaret Atwood, Reni Eddo-Lodge, Dave Eggers and more 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Barbara Kiser’s pick of the top five science books to read this week includes a loop quantum gravity redux, ancient automatons, and the weirdness of tropical flora. Daily briefing: 6 things we want to know following CRISPR baby claims 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z In his new film, The Truth About Killer Robots, Maxim Pozdorovkin studies the dangers posed by automatons and finds them far more pervasive than simple Terminator tropes. Monday US briefing: Mexico to deport 500 migrants after border clash 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z A town, for example, may suddenly be populated by tough level 50 and above automatons once a nuke goes off. Fallout 76’s first end-game nuke launches, starts apocalyptic battle 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z Creditors, bankers and college administrators have turned Americans into an economically squeezed people without free will, an army of automatons shackled by our invisible financial burdens. Hysterical surrealism? A pop culture for our age of economic insecurity 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z One of his creations was Talos, a giant automaton made of bronze, who Mayor describes as a "bronze killer-robot" and an early precursor to the kinds of androids now being built by Boston Dynamics. How Ancient Greeks predicted killer robots, driverless cars and even Amazon Alexa speakers 2018-10-10T04:00:00Z These alleged news automatons are more often blinded to their real biases by their own professional piety. New York Times caves to right-wing attacks over entirely accurate Kavanaugh story 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z The computer automaton system helps deal with some of the 2,000 GP referrals the hospital receives. 'Virtual workers' free hospital staff time 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z This is not the automaton Woods who won tournaments he was supposed to win with the kind of golf he was supposed to play. Perspective | Ryder Cup can be one more facet of Tiger Woods’ revival tour 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z She said Republican lawmakers sound to her “like automatons” when the topic of gun control arises. AP: Partisan divide over gun laws continues in most states 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z She said Republican lawmakers sound to her "like automatons" when the topic of gun control arises. AP: Despite shootings, states return to familiar patterns 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Jonathan’s mansion has room after room of ticking clocks and life-size automatons, as well as a recliner that behaves like a dog and an ever-changing stained-glass window. Review | This horror movie for kids mixes high-tech special effects and old-school storytelling 2018-09-19T04:00:00Z The caricature of Zuckerberg is that of an automaton with little regard for the human dimensions of his work. Can Mark Zuckerberg Fix Facebook Before It Breaks Democracy? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z The nominees have morphed into anodyne automatons, pleasant but taciturn, generally unwilling to offer much of substance, except perhaps about their pets, sports preferences, love of country and passion for the law. A Supreme scrum: It’s slam-bam in first round of Kavanaugh hearings 2018-09-04T04:00:00Z Might lobsters and lions, beetles and bats be unconscious automata, responding to their worlds with no hint of conscious experience? Are Humans the Only Conscious Animal? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Plainly, the country’s professional athletes have not all devolved into mindless automatons. Are super-nerds really ruining US sports? 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z The ink illustration depicts the BFG cradling a swan eating a fish, inspired by the museum's life-size Silver Swan automaton. Sir Quentin Blake inks silver swan 2018-08-11T04:00:00Z Whether the robots catch on with consumers right away is almost beside the point because they’ll give these deep-pocketed companies bragging rights and a leg up in the race to build truly useful automatons. Big Tech is throwing money and talent at robots for the home 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z In her forthcoming book Gods and Robots, classicist Adrienne Mayor describes bronze automata that featured at the Olympic Games two centuries before the Argonautica — a leaping dolphin and eagle in apparent flight. Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z Recently released personal diaries revealed that in the 1920s Einstein described Chinese people as “industrious, filthy, obtuse” and resembling a “peculiar herd-like nation . . . often more like automatons than people.” ‘Little House’ Has Been Condemned 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z But media savvy, or even media dependence, does not make the first daughter an automaton. Review | Privileged lives of the Trump children, in ‘golden handcuffs’ 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Utility-maximising automatons might see the sense in buying mosquito nets over the internet for distant strangers. Can “effective altruism” maximise the bang for each charitable buck? 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z IT IS the 26th century and humans have become “Numbers”—automatons who prioritise efficiency over freedom. An eerie dystopian prophecy by a disillusioned Bolshevik 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z Associated with the exotic and the idea of an ‘infidel’ East, automata were viewed for some time with awe and suspicion. Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The sculpture is fitted with motion sensors that are activated when the spectator comes near and with facial recognition software, so if you stand close to the automaton she looks deep into your eyes. Jordan Wolfson: 'This is real abuse – not a simulation' 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z “Legal liability arises from a reasonable investors’s standard, not that of a humorless irony-ignorant automaton,” he said. Analysis | Elon Musk’s April Fools’ tweets were ‘not a joking matter,’ experts say 2018-04-03T04:00:00Z And somehow I find myself always showing the same picture—of my all-time favorite science discovery, the rule 30 automaton. Did Stephen Wolfram's Knowledge Engine Just Become a Quantum Neural Blockchain AI? 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z While many cat owners will say there's no way to improve on purrfection, researchers at USC are giving it their best shot by building a robot kitty — which could have an impact on other automatons. California Inc.: Heads up, investors, it's the season of the witch 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z Evoking widespread wonder, hydraulic, spring-powered and clockwork automata proliferated in Europe, from mechanized angels in churches to Neptune automata in grottoes. Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z I get a strong sense that if you ascribe a woman’s behaviour to biology, people will automatically think that women are automatons, driven by their hormones and unable to regulate their own behaviour. Martie Haselton: ‘Hormones don’t make us crazy or irrational’ 2018-03-11T05:00:00Z The name Deckard, for instance, echoes that of seventeenth-century French philosopher René Descartes, who asked whether it was possible to distinguish, without direct access to their minds, a human from an automaton. Where Bladerunner began: 50 years of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 2018-03-06T05:00:00Z Yet Southern descriptions of this “army of beauties” point up the ambivalence: their perfect synchronisation and pasted-on grins simultaneously reinforce stereotypes of the North as a nation of obedient, brainwashed automatons. Has North Korea’s week at the Winter Olympics diminished the nuclear threat? 2018-02-14T05:00:00Z “When I was in school, people still thought that birds were little automata. Now “bird brain” is becoming a compliment,” she says. ‘Delightful’ Experiments Reveal What Birds See in Their Mind’s Eye 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z Over subsequent centuries, Descartes’s view of living things as complex machines inspired new heights in manufacture, and Europe reached peak automaton in the seventeenth to early nineteenth centuries. Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The words are more typically heard when entering a department store, the automaton drone of a hired greeter. A New Job Description for M.T.A. Workers: Professionally Nice 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z Its creators, Hanson Robotics, consistently exaggerate the bot’s abilities, pretending that it’s “basically alive,” rather than just a particularly unnerving automaton. Facebook’s head of AI really hates Sophia the robot (and with good reason) 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z That includes both professional and domestic machines like warehouse automatons, smart vacuums and fuzzy companion robots. Lifelike robots made in Hong Kong meant to win over humans 2018-01-15T05:00:00Z The video game device offers a few wrinkles — non-player guides who parrot their instructional speeches over and over like automatons, and different levels the crew must achieve before moving on to the next. John Hughes meets Indiana Jones in reimagined 'Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle' 2017-12-18T05:00:00Z The discovery that she is an automaton drives him to suicide. Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z The law must decide whether someone has criminal intent or is acting as an automaton, without conscious awareness. My boyfriend raped his ex 'in his sleep' 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Biologist Andrew Barron argued that bees, in spite of their minuscule brains, are not mindless automatons. Jellyfish, Sexbots and the Solipsism Problem 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z It was the essence of Novotna’s appeal that she was no tennis automaton. A Tennis Perfectionist Who Was Decidedly Human 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z When he isn't in motion, he stares vacantly, communicating his shock and trauma, his character merely a violent automaton. Jackie Chan still has his moves as he gets his 'Taken' moment in 'The Foreigner' — and yet ... 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z The French philosopher René Descartes was reputedly fond of automata: they inspired his view that living things were biological machines that function like clockwork. Ancient dreams of intelligent machines: 3,000 years of robots 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z I explain that they died precisely so that we would have that choice, not so that we may become automatons who stand and sit on cue.” ‘I Served for What This Country Stood For’: Readers React to N.F.L. Protests 2017-09-27T04:00:00Z Foer draws on numerous historical tech innovations, from Descartes’ automatons to Western Union’s cozy relationship with the Associated Press, to offer the early templates for modern Big Tech practices. Franklin Foer's 'World Without Mind' argues that Silicon Valley will lead us to our doom 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z This two-armed automaton did not recognize any of this stuff, but that did not matter. In the Future, Warehouse Robots Will Learn on Their Own 2017-09-10T04:00:00Z Tracing a path through the graph corresponds to a particular haplotype; it is used as a stochastic automaton to sample such haplotypes that reflect the chosen edge probabilities. Sequencing and de novo assembly of 150 genomes from Denmark as a population reference : Nature : Nature Research 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Anyway, the idea of being able to see actual people having actual sex, on camera, was so mind-blowing that the only obstacle to enjoyment was this pesky automaton plot. Anyone for robotic rumpy pumpy? | Victoria Coren Mitchell 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z There’s something jarring about these portraits, because with good reason we tend to think of jihadists like Emwazi and al-Zarqawi as murderous automatons, singularly dedicated to the most terrifying violence. The art of making a jihadist 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z Right from the beginning of the campaign, the Maybot went into full automaton mode. The making of the Maybot: a year of mindless slogans, U-turns and denials 2017-07-10T04:00:00Z As a society, we are finally recognizing that the world’s non-human species are not the automatons that Rene Descartes insisted they were – a view that tainted animal science for centuries. Rewilding Mozambique – funded in part by trophy hunting 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z That is not to say that periodization wants to produce teams of automatons. Cybernetics, Cesarean Sections and Soccer’s Most Magnificent Mind 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z In good times, this makes him more endearing than your average automaton athlete. Tim Howard is an increasingly outdated frontman for MLS 2017-04-17T04:00:00Z The findings raise the spectre of existing social inequalities and prejudices being reinforced in new and unpredictable ways as an increasing number of decisions affecting our everyday lives are ceded to automatons. AI programs exhibit racist and sexist biases, research reveals 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Formally, then, the biological pattern-forming system resembles the output of a cellular automaton. Developmental biology: How the lizard gets its speckled scales : Nature : Nature Research 2014-04-11T04:00:00Z This ‘mind the neighbours’ behaviour reminded Milinkovitch of a process called a cellular automaton. How lizards get their spots 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Remarkably, the pattern that emerged behaved like a cellular automaton. A Lizard With Scales That Behave Like a Computer Simulation 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z As Twitter seeks to attract advertisers, the proliferation of Russian automatons might prove inconvenient. Donald Trump and Russia: what we learned this week 2017-04-01T04:00:00Z Gorsuch portrayed himself as a kind of judicial automaton, obligated to pay mindless obeisance to the Court’s prior rulings. Behind Neil Gorsuch’s Non-Answers 2017-03-26T04:00:00Z The authors demonstrate that these changes are governed by a pattern-forming system that they call a living cellular automaton. Developmental biology: How the lizard gets its speckled scales : Nature : Nature Research 2014-04-11T04:00:00Z Cellular automatons, first described in terms of computer science, are self-replicating units that perform calculations. How lizards get their spots 2017-04-11T04:00:00Z Studying ocellated lizards, Michel Milinkovitch, a professor of genetics and evolution at the University of Geneva, noticed the animals’ scales seemed to behave like a cellular automaton, a rule-based model often used in computer science. A Lizard With Scales That Behave Like a Computer Simulation 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z When that underling, named Lockhart, arrives, he discovers a facility staffed by Alpine automatons. Review | ‘A Cure for Wellness’ may leave you feeling both invigorated and confused 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z It's not long, though, before things default to more traditional scenes of helicopters exploding, automatons duelling and Mark Wahlberg firing a rocket launcher. Super Bowl trailers whip up fan anticipation - BBC News 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z It is in this sense that the authors describe T. lepidus as a 'living' cellular automaton. Developmental biology: How the lizard gets its speckled scales : Nature : Nature Research 2014-04-11T04:00:00Z Documents of this invention are frustratingly sparse, but there is a reliable eyewitness account of another of Leonardo’s automata. The charisma droids: today's robots and the artists who foresaw them 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z From this, the researchers inferred a set of rules — a cellular automaton — for how the scales changed color. A Lizard With Scales That Behave Like a Computer Simulation 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Unable or unwilling to comfort Conrad in his own troubled moments, she stiffens like an automaton when he tries to hug her. Mary Tyler Moore on film: In 'Ordinary People,' an extraordinary transformation 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z I didn’t want something that was abstract, portraying the people as automatons who just followed the church. History and comedy collide with Aubrey Plaza, Alison Brie and Dave Franco in 'The Little Hours' 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z The authors call this patterning system a living cellular automaton. Developmental biology: How the lizard gets its speckled scales : Nature : Nature Research 2014-04-11T04:00:00Z Are today’s robots any closer to true agency than the Mechanical Turk, a chess-playing automaton that amazed 18th- and early 19th-century Europe? The charisma droids: today's robots and the artists who foresaw them 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z Though cellular automata are commonly used to simulate biological systems on computers, this is the first example of a “living cellular automaton,” said Dr. Milinkovitch, an author of the paper. A Lizard With Scales That Behave Like a Computer Simulation 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z I am not sure that reducing health care providers to computer automatons will in the long run be a good thing. A Fix for Gender Bias in Health Care? Check 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z Even to a native English speaker, the missing article on the leopard is the only real giveaway that No. 2 was the output of an automaton. The Great A.I. Awakening 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z As the authors conclude, a cellular automaton is not just an abstract concept, but corresponds to a process generated by biological evolution. Developmental biology: How the lizard gets its speckled scales : Nature : Nature Research 2014-04-11T04:00:00Z Da Vinci applied the same science that inspired his automata to his most famous portrait. The charisma droids: today's robots and the artists who foresaw them 2017-01-28T05:00:00Z To solidify this link, Stanislav Smirnov, a mathematics professor at the University of Geneva, created a set of Turing equations that reproduced the cellular automaton behavior observed. A Lizard With Scales That Behave Like a Computer Simulation 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z But old soldiers are not martial automatons, responding reflexively to civilian commands. The Creeping Militarization of Donald Trump's Cabinet 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z The kinds of jobs taken by automatons will no longer be just repetitive tasks that were once — unfairly, it ought to be emphasized — associated with the supposed lower intelligence of the uneducated classes. The Great A.I. Awakening 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z But their roster is as deep as usual, and Kawhi Leonard is a silent, deadly automaton with hands large enough to crush a small asteroid. Warriors vs. Clippers, and Three Others: The Best N.B.A. Games This Week 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z Everyone around you moves like an automaton. You sit next to each other silently, staring into the middle distance. The Five Stages of Trump Grief 2016-11-11T05:00:00Z With more complex rules, cellular automata can be used to model many things, from snowflake formation to traffic. A Lizard With Scales That Behave Like a Computer Simulation 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z Psychologists and other social scientists have repeatedly shown that when confronted with diverse information choices, people rarely act like rational, civic-minded automatons. How the Internet Is Loosening Our Grip on the Truth 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z The Soviets, supposed to be enslaved automatons, had emerged as sorcerers who conquered the mysteries of the booster rocket while American scientists were still firing duds. Rise of the Reactionary 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z In a normal world, Venne, 26, would never consider voting for Clinton, whom he views as an untrustworthy, nontransparent, “automaton”-like “career politician.” Clinton’s best hope with millennials? Conservatives. 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Politicians can resemble automatons, mouthing the directives of some offstage Svengali. Ivanka and Jared’s Power Play 2016-08-15T04:00:00Z Simulating their cellular automaton, the researchers found it generated a pattern indistinguishable from real lizard patterns. A Lizard With Scales That Behave Like a Computer Simulation 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z But Phelps, long viewed as something of an automaton internationally, has also narrowed the personality gap in Rio. Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps: Twin Titans of the Modern Olympics 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z There are those who regard animals as furry automatons, whose response to stimulus is merely chemical or mechanical. 'Koko, the Gorilla Who Talks,' still controversial, still intriguing 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z By this point, another burger might have seemed unthinkably gluttonous to the calorie-counting automatons many pro golfers have become. ‘Beef’ Beefs Up on Beef 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z This didn’t necessarily mean transforming Trump into a political automaton with a flag pin, a scripted stump speech and a pathological addiction to speaking in platitudes. Can Donald Trump 'pivot' to transform himself mid-campaign? 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z It reassured many in New Hampshire who refused to see her as an automaton. The five days in 2008 that propelled Clinton to today 2016-06-08T04:00:00Z It concluded that only 9 percent of American workers faced a high risk of being replaced by an automaton. Threatened by Machines: A Once ‘Stupid’ Concern Gains Respect 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z Brooks assumes that Hillary Clinton really is a bloodless policy automaton — a woman who is all work and no play. We have Hillary all wrong: Americans hate a politician of the press’ imagination 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The ideas are built into the impersonal filmmaking, too; the characters are intentionally detached and speak monotonously - automatons in a rigid system of courtship. Review: Deadpan satire ‘The Lobster’ skewers marriage 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z I feel bad for the refs, who, for the most part, are company men in an industry that desperately wants to replace their jobs with automatons. Has the Replay Taken the Fun Out of Watching Sports? 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z He built a chess-playing automaton that, after its opponent moved, made witty remarks. The Forgotten Father of the Information Age 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z Caliban is destined to remain a genetic automaton, a windup ghoul—vastly more pathetic than anything human. The Science of Identity and Difference 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z New York, after its primary, will revert to its status as a blue-state automaton. Trump’s New York Values 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z It’s an always-on, always watching, semi-sentient companion, able to log the reactions of Sophie’s face when David talks to her, process them, and use the data to generate a realistic automaton all on its own. Creative Control is a stylish look into our coming augmented reality nightmare 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Outside Londonderry High School, a pair of operatives from American Bridge, a liberal political action committee, appeared wearing cardboard boxes made up to look like automatons. Rubio seeks to reassure supporters as Republican rivals renew attacks 2016-02-07T05:00:00Z They thought we were automatons who'd bite on any poisoned economic apple offered to us. This Time, Cheaper Oil Does Little for the U.S. Economy 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z There were no surprises in Sharapova’s victory – under the roof during a brief spell of rain – as she went into automaton mode to dismantle her opponent. Serena Williams and Maria Sharapova move closer to Australian Open meeting 2016-01-20T05:00:00Z You might appreciate its efforts in the future, when squadrons of the automatons are zipping about. CES 2016: Preview of the Las Vegas tech showcase - BBC News 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z In an effort to recover the automaton, players will place Da Vinci’s inventions around the game levels – say the outside of a castle – and direct Scungilli to operate the tools. Muppet veteran Michael Frith charms a new audience with 'Leonardo's Cat' 2015-11-04T05:00:00Z The country runs like an automaton: everybody knows their roles, their possibilities and limitations. Ping pong, beach trips and intermittent Wi-Fi: life in privileged Pyongyang 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z But earlier work Mercer did with a small team at IBM — where his boss once jokingly referred to him as an “automaton,” according to Mallaby’s book — was published. How a reclusive computer programmer became a GOP money powerhouse 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z It is unfair to portray most other modern-day sporting stars as one-dimensional automatons. The World Cup's most interesting man? 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Between meetings with rich and poor, he squeezed in some time for automatons. N.F.L. Announcers Are Bad at Math, Too 2015-09-29T04:00:00Z At these soirées, Babbage displayed a model of his early difference engine — a brass calculating machine capable of tabulating higher-order polynomial functions — alongside a silver automaton in the form of a dancing ballerina. Computer science: Enchantress of abstraction : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z “But we have to be guarded not to be automatons ourselves.” The Air Force Wants You to Trust Robots. Should You? 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z Lovelier, no, but categorically not the golfing automaton many believed him to be. Why villains are good for sport 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z Life—the cellular automaton, not the condition of existence—is a sore point for Mr. Conway. A Fellow of Infinite Jest 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z After fifty or sixty interrogations with cold and hunger and almost no sleep, a man becomes like an automaton — his eyes are bright, his legs swollen, his hands trembling. Robert Conquest and the need for the courage to illuminate the truth 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z For centuries Western philosophy and science largely viewed animals as unthinking automatons, simple slaves to instinct. Are plants intelligent? New book says yes 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z Right now though, Moley’s invention is more automaton than sci-fi robot butler: there’s no machine vision, no artificial intelligence involved that might react to unexpected inputs. I ate crab bisque cooked by a robot chef 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z But, despite the dominance of Sky’s pedal-turning automatons, the race provided no shortage of drama, including the loss through injury of not one but two early race leaders in Tony Martin and Fabian Cancellara. Chris Froome's Tour de France: through the rain, abuse and urine to victory 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z The most famous such automaton, Conway’s Game of Life, is built on the eight-neighbor model where cells are either “alive” or “dead.” Math You Can Wear 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z It’s an Orwellian nightmare: his voice ringing out as if at a dystopian rally, trying to wake a population of people who’ve become mindless, all-obeying automatons. Joy Division: 10 of the Best 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z Go on -- help make wearable cellular automata a thing. Physics Week in Review: July 4, 2015 2015-07-04T04:00:00Z “Most people who study or love computer science have seen the output from an elementary cellular automaton and recognize my scarf,” Serriere wrote. Back Algorithmic Knitting on Kickstarter 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Karlovic is no lumbering automaton and has a loyal and amused following on Twitter, where he dispenses eccentric views on a regular basis. Andy Murray has the smart weapons to counter Karlovic’s Wimbledon bombs 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z Instead, under the most common conception of broken windows policy, professional police officers are treated as if they are automatons, seeing a violation and forced to write it up or make an arrest. Broken windows policing needs to go. We need a community-oriented approach | John Eterno and Eli Silverman 2015-06-29T04:00:00Z With virtually any job – from CEO to broom-sweeper – at risk of being computerized or robotized, you wonder if all that will be left is to replace consumers with automatons. Is the Pen Mightier Than the Rise of the Robots? 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z “Aaaaarrrrrr,” I said, and proceeded to deliver the lines again with a growl from the back of my throat like a Disney automaton pirate on Talk Like A Pirate Day. The Five Steps To Mastery 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z She will also ship the source code with the scarf in case you need it someday to replace or augment your cellular automata wardrobe with a coordinating design. Back Algorithmic Knitting on Kickstarter 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z "It's a focus on these people as human beings as opposed to automatons." Primary colors: Britain chooses artist to chronicle election 2015-04-26T04:00:00Z “This proposal will continue to allow a clique to control the elections and condemn the public to acting as voting automatons,” he declared. Hong Kong opens new chapter in pro-democracy fight 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z To be deprived of our past is to be deprived of our future; without memory, we are automatons, not fully human. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Folly 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z They may well, in fact, be full automatons. Infinite universes and dead strawberries: an interview with Brian Cox and Robin Ince 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z Not all cellular automata generate attractive designs with all possible starting states, so Serriere is going to cull the designs that aren’t up to snuff. Back Algorithmic Knitting on Kickstarter 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Robots aren’t necessarily taking over the world, but the Boston Consulting Group report and automated Japanese hotel development suggest automatons are certainly capable of taking over some jobs in the workforce. Robots Could Cut International Labor Costs 16 Percent by 2025, Consulting Group Says 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z Drawing on both its founder’s propensity for automata and the modern company’s artistic predilections, the Bird Repeater launched in 2012 in a highly limited edition of only 16 pieces. The Extraordinary Jaquet Droz Bird Repeater Celebrates Geneva 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z The work of Watson and Crick was based on Alan Turing's work in finite automata theory. Sebastian Seung’s Quest to Map the Human Brain 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z He believes most people will be more comfortable with such a device at this stage rather than an automaton wandering through their home. The robots moving in to your home 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z After some experimentation, she landed on cellular automata. Back Algorithmic Knitting on Kickstarter 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z The husky looks like it is trying to protect its human family from the tiny automaton, but its fervent barks are matched by the Furby’s stream of Furbish sayings. Watch a Husky Go Berserk Over a Furby 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z Its mechanical movement includes a repeater, the element that simultaneously moves the bird automata, which replicate a species found in the Jura called mésange. The Extraordinary Jaquet Droz Bird Repeater Celebrates Geneva 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z That got the attention of Woods, who at his best was an artist, not an automaton. Chris Como’s Quiet Study of the Golf Swing Leads to Tiger Woods’s Side 2014-12-06T05:00:00Z Remember the robo-signers, those mortgage loan automatons who authenticated thousands of foreclosure documents over the years without verifying the information they were swearing to? Borrowers, Beware: The Robo-signers Aren’t Finished Yet 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z Elementary cellular automata, on the other hand, are fundamentally one-dimensional; they only move in one direction, so a two-dimensional object like a scarf can capture the evolution of the system more effectively. Back Algorithmic Knitting on Kickstarter 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z It concerns a deceptively simple cellular automata model of "life," in which small organisms are born, evolve, and die according to set rules. The man who magically made maths fun 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Lawrence has turned some common appliances into automatons, notably a light-bulb-headed helper named Edison. ‘Thunder and the House of Magic’ movie review: An animated throwback mashup Everyone around me seemed like automatons, robots, without the affect I was used to from before the accident. Hope For People With Autism 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Even an American public that does not hold Senators and Congresspersons in high regard is not prepared to accept as credible that they are mindless automatons, disregarding principle and blindly accepting AIPAC’s dictates. The AIPAC Wars are Underway Again 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z Cellular automata are some of the simplest places chaos can arise. Back Algorithmic Knitting on Kickstarter 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Again and again, every day, like an unsteady automaton. Addiction in the orchestra: classical music's drink and drugs problem 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z Lawyers and other professional are not losing their jobs to walking automatons, but, as earlier noted, to the algorithm — to the minds of the new machines. In The Future, Will Only Robots Celebrate Labor Day? 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z She works for Pneubotics, one of a growing number of startups designing softer automatons capable of flexible movements—and, perhaps, daily interaction with humans. Robots That Show Their Softer Side 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z That column — which also pilloried ed reformers as market-obsessed automatons interested in nothing beyond turning schools into cash machines — incited the usual raft of rebuttals. It ain't flashy but it works: Get personal and schools improve 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Elementary cellular automata are important in computer science as well. Back Algorithmic Knitting on Kickstarter 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Having argued that the killing was a deliberate but mistaken act of self-preservation, he then said he pulled the trigger without thinking - an assertion that would match a so-called automaton defense but not self-defense. Oscar Pistorius verdict hangs on 'possible improbabilities' 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z They are appealing to humans as if we are automatons. The Sly Tricks Marketers Use To Get You To Buy 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Are marathons the equivalent of Miami Beach, heroin-like highs for craving automatons? Sun Junkies?: Is tanning just like heroin? 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z In the 17th century, Descartes described animals as automatons, a view that held sway for centuries. ‘Animal Madness’: A Look at Tense Dogs, Elephants and More 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z While you're eagerly anticipating your scarf, you can check out the Wikipedia page on elementary cellular automata to find a rule you like. Back Algorithmic Knitting on Kickstarter 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z The notion of animals as unthinking automatons has enjoyed curious staying power; one form it has taken is a tendency to study animal behavior to the exclusion of thoughts and feelings. Zoo Animals and Their Discontents 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z “We don’t think we can create emotionless automatons, but we can create a discipline where the most obvious biases are eliminated.” Managers Find Bad Investment Behavior Can Yield Better Returns 2014-06-18T04:00:00Z “Days of Future Past” opens in the future, when an army of mutant-hunting automatons called Sentinels have all but exterminated the lovable genetic freaks, or X-Men, at the center of the comic-book mythology. ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ is a gas The roaming automaton will incorporate a Bluetooth speaker and a light projector that pulses in time to music. Tech to add punch to your parties 2014-04-02T01:06:00Z But we’re not mindless automatons, and the UK’s productivity figures reflect that. In The UK, The Harder You Work, The Less You Achieve 2014-03-24T14:41:00Z Practice, but not so much that you become an automaton. Can Being Yourself Sink an MBA Application? I Go 'Undercover' to Find Out 2014-03-21T09:54:31Z He was more suited to the job of a traffic policeman, one of the automaton types we used to have before we modernized into a mania for red-amber-green multispots. Romesh Gunesekera: “Road Kill.” 2013-11-25T05:00:00Z It explains why blank eyes, automatons, masks and ventriloquists' dolls are common cinema devices to instil fear. Why we're afraid of 'zombie' faces 2013-10-29T09:37:05Z Does this clockwork automaton cobbled together from a variety of genres hold up to scrutiny? 'Ironclad Tactics' Review (PC) 2013-09-23T23:14:00Z The time was right for Rodriguez to take advantage of the opportunity to humanize himself instead of coming across like a baseball automaton programmed by a fleet of public relations professionals. Haugh: A-Rod doesn't exactly come out swinging 2013-08-06T03:13:00Z Are the Kaiju just automatons that smash and destroy once they get through The Breach? The Tet Zoo Guide to Pacific Rim 2013-07-25T15:45:07.803Z However, they missed the mark badly on Google Glass, because they forget that humans want to enjoy the human experience, not turn into automatons more appropriate for a Will Smith movie. Investing At The Corner Of Technology And The Human Experience 2013-07-10T19:05:00Z Learn automata and grammars and their relationship to each other. What Does It Take To Be An Expert In Computer Programming? 2013-07-08T14:56:00Z Right now gamers feel as though they are being treated as copyright violators or automatons. Xbox One and Microsoft's shocking discovery: gamers aren't data 2013-06-13T14:03:42Z Apathetic regulators, amoral management, corporate automatons all paid handsomely to dispense with principles and just protect the industry by any means necessary. The whistleblowers: 'The truth sets you free' 2013-06-10T19:00:00Z It may stop everyone from working like automatons and your customers from responding in kind. 12 Ways to Spring Clean Your Business 2013-05-01T13:45:00Z During the Enlightenment, the French philosopher René Descartes, a founder of modern science, declared that animals were soulless automatons. The Brains of the Animal Kingdom 2013-03-23T03:08:08Z Far from the dehumanizing shed of automatons, the Gripple factory floor is bright, open, and beautiful. Modern Manufacturing Ain't What It Used to Be (It's Better) 2013-03-20T18:49:50Z Once again, the National Rifle Association’s Wayne LaPierre was revealed as a well-paid gun-shilling automaton, unmoved by evidence or even his own past statements as he inveighed against new gun regulation. Standing up to gun bullies 2013-01-31T12:45:00Z There will be crowds, there will be bruised toes, and audio guide-wearing visitors acting like automatons might even cause a punch up, but it is a must see. Beyonce, Bridget Jones and Manet: 2013's cultural highlights 2012-12-31T10:43:58Z Sometimes Sir Chris Hoy can seem like an automaton of track cycling, an indomitable, emotionless machine eating up the boards and spitting out opponents in a blur of thunderous thighs and black tyre. SPOTY: Why Sir Chris Hoy should win 2012-12-11T07:02:03Z What the Jets concluded was that Sanchez would play the role of automaton. Jets 17, Jaguars 10: Jets, With Limited Game Plan for Mark Sanchez, Defeat Jaguars 2012-12-09T22:08:00Z The device gains great fame as an automaton capable of playing chess against skilled opponents –until it is discovered that a human operator hides inside the box. 30 Great Moments In The History Of Robots 2012-11-26T16:11:46Z Xi, although certainly glorifying the Communist Party’s role in renewing a wounded nation more than six decades ago, sounded like a real person speaking, not some ideological automaton. Meet the Men Who Will Rule China 2012-11-15T06:35:30Z Now that Mitt Romney has established himself as something other than an automaton, Barack Obama is going to have to come clean, descend from the mountaintop and make his best case for keeping the job. Note to Obama: Get Down off the Mountaintop 2012-10-11T13:35:24Z Rather than illuminating the complex interplay between mind and brain, it portrays human beings — especially women — as automatons, enslaved by brain chemicals we cannot control. What Neuroscience Says About Women and Desire 2012-09-18T23:35:31Z But there is a dark side too, and it largely springs from the assumption that our digital automata have automatically inherited our sense of decency. Google and YouTube have got to show more Adsense 2012-08-16T10:48:35Z These bodies are not simply perfect, they are differently perfect; the rest of the time, the rules of attractiveness are circumscribed, handed down by a prissy marketing automaton who doesn't like smells. London 2012: is it wrong to, ahem, admire the bodies of the athletes? 2012-08-06T15:20:55Z I continue dry-land workouts like an automaton, simulating swimming in a basement, willing my body to remember what it is capable of. A life aquatic: every swimsuit tells a story 2012-07-20T21:59:00Z Engineers in Munich have built a pool-playing automaton that can pot five balls in a row. Robot sport: Heavy hitters 2012-07-19T15:02:30Z In a loose sense it's a form of computer programming, even if it's clearly not fair to describe the England players as automata. The Spin 2012-06-20T11:15:59Z As, without the exercise of this, man would have been as a mere automaton, he was exposed to the temptation of the devil, and fell. Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement 2012-04-26T02:00:14.960Z In the course of the seventh book, a still more extraordinary automaton appears. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z And when a character on the stage was not declaiming or dramatically listening, he usually stood stock-still in a statuesque attitude, staring into blank space, with the look of an automaton. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Even “ageing amateurs” can defeat today’s batch of footballing automatons, admits Mr Stone. Robot sport: Heavy hitters 2012-07-19T15:02:30Z She is like an india-rubber doll, like an automaton of a new kind; she takes strange forms. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z He straightened his body, and also his face; he became an automaton. The Homesteader A Novel 2012-03-26T02:00:30.703Z So great and admirable an automaton as the world. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z A fat man with a large nose jumped—actually jumped—at their appearance, and began to fold a pattern of damask in front of him exactly like an automaton that is suddenly set going. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z But without wheels, most automatons are still painfully slow. Robot sport: Heavy hitters 2012-07-19T15:02:30Z No one believes, at the present date, with Descartes, that the animals are automata. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Something in my face—oh, my despairing face, mother!—touched something human in the pompous automaton. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z An automaton, man has no free will, but it is better for him to imagine that he has; it is a sounder working hypothesis for the average human. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Pitt was a majestic automaton; Fox a living man. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z He moved like an automaton, with all his limbs and joints loose. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z And wouldn’t it be even greater if he were an automaton who did whatever fans and columnists wanted him to do? Tanier: Seattle is the perfect place for Peyton 2012-03-08T18:26:56Z I have looked upon him somewhat as an automaton, although a valuable one. Mr. Marx's Secret 2012-03-02T03:00:10.327Z In reality, insects, reptiles and nonhuman often serve as a more practical template for automatons. Robot Uses Lizard Tail to Leap 2012-02-18T13:15:02.403Z I do not think it is inevitable, unless you have no intellectual constructive Statecraft, and are merely in that line an automaton. West African studies 2012-02-15T03:00:28.537Z His power of volition's gone, he is an automaton worked by me. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Like a patient automaton wound up with a spring, she half consciously did what was required, but clearly found no pleasure in the act. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z The book goes on to recount the varying degrees of success that Dungy enjoyed by turning his players into automatons. How Business Conditions The Sub-Prime Housewives 2012-02-11T17:45:29Z They are not free to use their knowledge and expertise, because the District says that it is better for them to act like automatons and follow the script. Academic ?walkthrough? teams: Surreally real 2012-02-11T12:00:00Z Up to that point Gray, since finding the horse, had acted instinctively, almost as an automaton might act. The Bushranger's Secret 2012-02-09T03:00:14.847Z "Allah Beh!" he cried, swaying his body backwards and forwards with the regularity of an automaton and an inimitable quickness. Miranda of the Balcony A Story 2012-01-28T03:00:24.760Z His hands were bleeding, and the dew of effort dripped from him while he swung with the clinking pick like an automaton. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z But when he discovered that it was only an automaton, he lost all interest and apathetically refused to be entertained by it. When a Cobbler Ruled a King 2012-01-15T03:00:13.430Z Seriously, how can anyone write such a sentence referring to “recent advances” as though we formerly thought humans were automatons. Dot Earth Blog: More Climate Messages from Beyond the 'Nerd Loop' 2012-01-13T21:01:32Z |
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