35: Don't DeExtinct the Dodo, Humans vs Computers, and Art Forgery

Is it really possible to bring back the Dodo, and what even really happened in the first place?  Are there any games left that humans can beat computers at, and why might that be okay?  And what can art forgery tell us about art and the art world?

Images/Videos we Mention:
The TinkerToy Tic Tac Toe Computer
The Rock Paper Scissors Robot

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The Cherished Dodo, tinction, what does a dodo taste i mean look like, dodo art telephone, only 1 full skeleton, actualy lots of things die this way, invasive species also killed the dodo, Alice in Wonderland’s trendsetting the Dodo, Caroline’s clearly a Dodo person, Dodo DNA, Jurassic Park was a Documentary, I hope to die in a funny way, bringing the Bucardo back, the first De-extinction, and the first Double Extinction, DNA vaults, the nicobar pigeon, Cloacas are “Fun” according to Ella, let’s reintroduce the Dodos too why not, “bring a little bit of magic back to the mauritious”, ancient egyptian tic tac toe, the Shannon Number, The Mechanical Turk, TuroChamp, Chess was the Drosophila of AI, bad AI predictions, Deep Blue vs Kasparov, The Googolplex of Go games, Dr Fill the Crowssword AI, 100% Rock Papers Scissor Win Rate, Poker AI, this really cool game called Superluminauts, what’s “unfair” in AI? the power of art comes from yourself, the art of forgery, Han van Meegeren, Dodo in Gearl with a Pearl Earring we all make the same dumb joke, new Vermeer, don’t arrest me it’s just a forgery, there could still be Elmyr de Hory forgeries, F is for Fake, “if my work hangs in a museum long enough, it becomes real”, Tom makes a totally normal and not embaressing mixup of Van Gogh and DaVinci, how to spot a forgery, carbon dating forgeries, just look at it closely, identifying craquelure, mass spectrometry, so much of this is just about money, Salvator Mundi Ship of Theseus, were these reviews forged? Go check! the laughing people

Sources:

Sources:

NHM: Dodo De-Extinction Announcement Causes Debate

NatGeo: The Dodo is Dead! Long Live the Dodo

Smithsonian: Article on Colossal Biosciences

Colossal Biosciences: The Dodo

Nature: What Would it Take to Bring Back the Dodo

The Atlantic: Article on the Dodo

NatGeo: First Extinct Clone Created

NHM: Frozen Banks

TedTalk: De-Extinction

Britannica: Gene Editing

Video on CRISPR

Revive and Restore Website

MIT: The Plan to Bring Back the Passenger Pigeon

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The TinkerToy Tic Tac Toe Computer

The Shannon Number

TuroChamp Chess AI

Newell & Simon AI Predictions

NYTimes Deep Blue Predictions

Kasparov on Deep Blue

A GoogolPlex of Go Games

Dr Fill Crossword AI

Rock Paper Scissors Robot

Poker AI

Starcraft AI

AI Survey

Angry Birds AI Paper

Another Angry Birds AI Paper

Angry Birds AI Competition

AI Birds Competition Blog

Chess.com 100 Million Users

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Authenticity and Viewing Art Study

Intent to Deceive

Detecting Art Forgery

Detecting Art Forgery 2

Art Forgery Detective

Forgers Reveal Secrets of Paintings

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