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		<title>A Cyborg Composer</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 06:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Roach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi. There. Before you read this post please listen to these music pieces. Listen here for the first peace here :  Or download from here : Emily Howell 1 Listen to the second peace from here: Or download from here : Emily Howell 2 Enjoyed it? Which one felt odd? The first one? The second one? [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi. There. Before you read this post please listen to these music pieces.</p>
<p>Listen here for the first peace here : <script type='text/javascript'>wpa_urls.push('\u0068\u0074\u0074\u0070\u003a\u002f\u002f\u006a\u006f\u0068\u006e\u0072\u006f\u0061\u0063\u0068\u002e\u0069\u006e\u0066\u006f\u002f\u0077\u0070\u002d\u0063\u006f\u006e\u0074\u0065\u006e\u0074\u002f\u0075\u0070\u006c\u006f\u0061\u0064\u0073\u002f\u0032\u0030\u0031\u0030\u002f\u0030\u0032\u002f\u0065\u006d\u0069\u006c\u0079\u005f\u0068\u006f\u0077\u0065\u006c\u006c\u005f\u0031\u002e\u006d\u0070\u0033');</script><a class='wpaudio wpaudio_url_0' href='1'>Emily Howell 1</a></p>
<p>Or download from here : <a href="http://johnroach.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/emily_howell_1.mp3">Emily Howell 1</a></p>
<p>Listen to the second peace from here: <script type='text/javascript'>wpa_urls.push('\u0068\u0074\u0074\u0070\u003a\u002f\u002f\u006a\u006f\u0068\u006e\u0072\u006f\u0061\u0063\u0068\u002e\u0069\u006e\u0066\u006f\u002f\u0077\u0070\u002d\u0063\u006f\u006e\u0074\u0065\u006e\u0074\u002f\u0075\u0070\u006c\u006f\u0061\u0064\u0073\u002f\u0032\u0030\u0031\u0030\u002f\u0030\u0032\u002f\u0045\u006d\u0069\u006c\u0079\u005f\u0048\u006f\u0077\u0065\u006c\u006c\u005f\u0054\u0072\u0061\u0063\u006b\u0032\u002e\u006d\u0070\u0033');</script><a class='wpaudio wpaudio_url_1' href='1'>Emily Howell 2</a></p>
<p>Or download from here : <a href="http://johnroach.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Emily_Howell_Track2.mp3">Emily Howell 2 </a></p>
<p>Enjoyed it? Which one felt odd? The first one? The second one?</p>
<p>Now the crux of the matter. <strong>Which do you think was written by an AI (</strong><a class="zem_slink" title="Artificial Intelligence (series)" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence"><strong>Artificial Intelligence</strong></a><strong>) ?</strong></p>
<p><span id="more-247"></span>Both pieces above were written by a computer software. Designed by <a class="zem_slink" title="David Cope" rel="wikipedia" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cope">David Cope</a>.</p>
<p>A short wiki search on David Cope :</p>
<blockquote><p><img src="http://www.miller-mccune.com/wp-content/uploads/image-resize-cache/resized432x299mmw_composer_main_0310.jpg" alt="feature photo" width="432" height="299" /></p>
<h6>UC Santa Cruz emeritus professor David Cope is ready to introduce computer software that creates original, modern music. (Catherine Karnow)</h6>
<p><strong>David Cope</strong> (b. <a title="San Francisco, California" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco,_California">San Francisco</a>, <a title="California" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California">California</a>, <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">United States</a>, May 17, 1941) is an <a title="United States" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States">American</a> <a title="Author" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Author">author</a>, <a title="Composer" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composer">composer</a>, scientist, and professor emeritus of music at the <a title="University of California, Santa Cruz" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_California,_Santa_Cruz">University of California, Santa Cruz</a>. His primary area of research involves <a title="Artificial intelligence" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_intelligence">artificial intelligence</a> and <a title="Music" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music">music</a>; he writes programs and algorithms that can analyze existing music and create new compositions in the style of the original input music. In addition to regular music classes, he teaches a summer <a rel="nofollow" href="http://arts.ucsc.edu/wacm/">Workshop in Algorithmic Computer Music</a> that is open to the public as well as a general education course entitled <em>Artificial Intelligence and Music</em> for enrolled UCSC students.</p></blockquote>
<p>His software has started angering people who believe music can only written with soul. And the above is nothing more than random notes. However what they don&#8217;t realize is that maybe your computer gains its soul with this neat little software.</p>
<p>I do believe that one day computers will gain their full sentience. They will be aware and start asking the serious questions. And I do believe that creating music by using AI software is just brilliant.</p>
<p>Tell me what you think! Is this music real enough for you?</p>
<p>Peace!</p>
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		<title>LCD screen can recognise what happens in front of it</title>
		<link>http://johnroach.info/2009/12/lcd-screen-can-recognise-what-happens-in-front-of-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 19:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Roach</dc:creator>
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		<title>Robots go Open Source!! Thanks to Willow Garage Watch Video</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Roach</dc:creator>
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		<title>MIT&#8217;s Shape-Shifting Robots (Audio Slide Show)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 18:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Roach</dc:creator>
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		<title>Giving Small Robots New Ways to Move (IEEE)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Roach</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I always thought that there should be smaller robots. We do have the technology. Look at your PDAs,IPhones and HTC model telephones. All are actually sophisticated computers. Why not use this technology to make smaller bots? And while making them smaller why not make the so they can move easily through. After all a cockroach can go to [...]]]></description>
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<p>I always thought that there should be smaller robots. We do have the technology. Look at your PDAs,IPhones and HTC model telephones. All are actually sophisticated computers. Why not use this technology to make smaller bots? And while making them smaller why not make the so they can move easily through. After all a cockroach can go to places where you would usually say &#8220;How in the hell did it get up there?&#8221;.</p>
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<p>These 10 years are about bio-robots. By tagging the name of bio-robots I mean robots that act and move like insects and other simple life forms. And if we can perfect  our way in constructing and programming such robots we will find out how to make androids!! ( Probably going too far.) I hope to maybe get my hand on some part to make my own. But I just really don&#8217;t have the time <img src='http://johnroach.info/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' />  . </p>
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