Best Super Bowl XLI Ads
February 5, 2007 | 2 Comments
As always the Super Bowl ads are an equal draw for viewers. I’m torn because I truly love both the game and the ads, which makes a DVR a necessity for bathroom breaks…
Anyway, here are my favorite commercials from this year, basically these are my top five sponsors, multiple ads for each in some cases, followed by two ads that get special mention.
Bud Light - Rock/Paper/Scissors
Bud Light - Fist Bump
CareerBuilder - Jungle Office Warfare Series Unfortunately these are not embed-able. Damn CareerBuilder!
Darts & Jungle, Inc
Promotion Pit
Performance Evaluation
Siera Mist - Beard Combover
Doritos - Live the Flavor
Coke - Video Game (GTA)
Special Mention for Most Disturbing: Chevy HHR Car Wash 2007 Super Bowl Spot
Special Mention for Saddest: GM robot suicide dream
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Philip K. Dick Robot
February 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment
What’s more interesting/ironic, that they created a robot in the likeness of Philip K. Dick, or that it is now missing?
About the robot:
The visual data will be fused with some of the best speech recognition software, advanced natural language processing, and speech synthesis in the world. All of this will run in sync with Hanson Robotics’ highly expressive robot face to emulate a full human-conversational system.
IIS will create the artificial intelligence personality of the robot by mathematically deriving it from Dick’s life and works in a manner very similar to that described by Dick himself in his book We Can Build You (published in 1964).
About the disappearing bot:
The fact the surrealist SF author’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (and Blade Runner, the film based n the book) involved the search for lifelike “replicants” on the lamb suggests to me that this heist is either a publicity stunt or a prank perpetrated by PKD fans.
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Prilliman and others close to Phil baulked at giving too many details about his disappearance including the name of the airline that was transporting the robot when he went missing.
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