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Jan 28 16 12:06 AM
For example: 2004 mission logo depicts a sword-wielding, big-breasted redhead with wings.When the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) launched an Atlas V ferrying a GEMSat classified payload in December 2013, the mission's logo set off a public firestorm of sorts. The mission logo, or patch, from the launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is of a giant, orange-ish-colored octopus sitting atop Earth. "Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach," read the logo for the NROL-39 mission. The office of the Director of National Intelligence published a picture of the logo-patch on Twitter hours before launch, tweeting that the "Atlas 5 will blast off just past 11PM, PST carrying an classified NRO payload (also cubesats)." The launch came as the Guardian was publishing one leak after the other from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The leaks detailed that the US National Security Agency was, among other things, exercising digital domination across the world's fiber optic lines. So a spy agency's cartoon depicting total world domination was an untimely public relations failure given the focus Snowden was bringing to the US surveillance state. As it turns out, other NRO launch logos (often painted directly on the space craft) typically depict a scene of scary world domination too. But that's not to say all of the patches present the US as the Evil Empire. There's the "Great Bear" patch of the NROL-10 launch in 2000—essentially a cute, cuddly teddy bear that an elementary school student came up with. And let's not forget the NROL-33 patch from 2004, which depicts a big-breasted redhead with giant wings and sword.These mission patches have been around for decades, long a military tradition. NASA has them for its space missions, but those are more of the vanilla type. The mission logos of the NRO—established (PDF) in 1960 to oversee US reconnaissance efforts—depict devils, fire, dragons, raging bulls and, among other things, strange animals like an eagle on a lion's body with wings.
When the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) launched an Atlas V ferrying a GEMSat classified payload in December 2013, the mission's logo set off a public firestorm of sorts.
The mission logo, or patch, from the launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California is of a giant, orange-ish-colored octopus sitting atop Earth. "Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach," read the logo for the NROL-39 mission. The office of the Director of National Intelligence published a picture of the logo-patch on Twitter hours before launch, tweeting that the "Atlas 5 will blast off just past 11PM, PST carrying an classified NRO payload (also cubesats)."
The launch came as the Guardian was publishing one leak after the other from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. The leaks detailed that the US National Security Agency was, among other things, exercising digital domination across the world's fiber optic lines. So a spy agency's cartoon depicting total world domination was an untimely public relations failure given the focus Snowden was bringing to the US surveillance state.
As it turns out, other NRO launch logos (often painted directly on the space craft) typically depict a scene of scary world domination too. But that's not to say all of the patches present the US as the Evil Empire. There's the "Great Bear" patch of the NROL-10 launch in 2000—essentially a cute, cuddly teddy bear that an elementary school student came up with. And let's not forget the NROL-33 patch from 2004, which depicts a big-breasted redhead with giant wings and sword.
These mission patches have been around for decades, long a military tradition. NASA has them for its space missions, but those are more of the vanilla type. The mission logos of the NRO—established (PDF) in 1960 to oversee US reconnaissance efforts—depict devils, fire, dragons, raging bulls and, among other things, strange animals like an eagle on a lion's body with wings.
Read more @ http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/01/cute-to-a-little-sinister-the-beauty-of-us-spy-satellite-rocket-launch-logos/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link
While AI focuses on creating intelligent machines that perform human tasks, a human-based algorithm, harnessing the power of the crowd to make predictions, shows remarkable accuracy. Since the 1950's, when researchers began searching for ways to create artificial intelligence, much focus has been on developing artificial neural networks—building intelligence from scratch. Turning this concept on its head, an approach dubbed "artificial swarm intelligence" uses the power of nature in a different way: by harnessing groups of human minds to come up with predictions for real world events. Dr. Louis Rosenberg, CEO of Unanimous AI, is building a software platform, UNU, that assembles groups to make collective decisions. "What's different about this is that it fundamentally keeps people in there," he said. "We're focused on using software to amplify human intelligence." It's not technically AI—"if a program can't be intelligent without people, it is not artificially intelligent," said Roman Yampolskiy, director of the Cybersecurity Lab at the University of Louisville." And the "wisdom of the crowd" concept, derived from human-based computation models, goes back at least a dozen years. Yampolskiy himself developed a similar algorithm, dubbed "Wisdom of Artificial Crowds," using a group of "simulated intelligent agents" to make predictions.
While AI focuses on creating intelligent machines that perform human tasks, a human-based algorithm, harnessing the power of the crowd to make predictions, shows remarkable accuracy.
Since the 1950's, when researchers began searching for ways to create artificial intelligence, much focus has been on developing artificial neural networks—building intelligence from scratch. Turning this concept on its head, an approach dubbed "artificial swarm intelligence" uses the power of nature in a different way: by harnessing groups of human minds to come up with predictions for real world events.
Dr. Louis Rosenberg, CEO of Unanimous AI, is building a software platform, UNU, that assembles groups to make collective decisions. "What's different about this is that it fundamentally keeps people in there," he said. "We're focused on using software to amplify human intelligence."
It's not technically AI—"if a program can't be intelligent without people, it is not artificially intelligent," said Roman Yampolskiy, director of the Cybersecurity Lab at the University of Louisville." And the "wisdom of the crowd" concept, derived from human-based computation models, goes back at least a dozen years. Yampolskiy himself developed a similar algorithm, dubbed "Wisdom of Artificial Crowds," using a group of "simulated intelligent agents" to make predictions.
Read more @ http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-artificial-swarm-intelligence-uses-people-to-make-better-predictions-than-experts/
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