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Jon links to Forbes’ special edition on AI. I’ll go through most of these, commenting when appropriate. For instance: Dumb Like Google While the switch to “stupid” statistically based computing has given us tools like Google, it came with a steep price, namely, abandoning the cherished notion that computers will one day be like [...] Resident colleague Ben links to the following article: The Philosophical Significance of Twitter: Consciousness Outfolding In Embryos, Galaxies, and Sentient Beings: How the Universe Makes Life, an exquisitely written and astonishingly insightful book, Richard Grossinger writes about ‘infoldedeness’, stating that “the universe is comprehensible only as a thing that has been folded many times [...] when it is so obvious I am right? From Robot Scientists Think for Themselves At Aberystwyth University in Wales, Ross King and colleagues have created a robot called Adam that can not only carry out experiments on yeast metabolism but also reason about the results and plan the next experiment. It is the world’s [...] Bruno Latour, in conversation with Richard Powers, in honor of HAL: BL: To tell you the truth, I have never understood the Turing Test to begin with. In theory, it should match a flesh and blood human against a silicon machine. In practice however it matches a flesh and blood machine against a flesh [...] This is very old, but: U.S. Denies Patent for a Too-Human Hybrid Patents on humans could also conflict with the 13th Amendment’s prohibition against slavery. That is because a patent permits the owner to exclude others from “using” the invention. Because “use” can mean “employ,” officials wrote, a patent holder could prevent a person [...] As workers in the field fully understand, the phrase “artificial intelligence” is a terrible way to pick out the topic. Artificial intelligence is to be real intelligence, created by artifice. But artificial diamonds are not real diamonds created by artifice. They are fake diamonds. Real diamonds created in a laboratory are synthetic diamonds. And [...] Godel was quite at home with the idea that as logic and mathematics progress, machines would increasingly take over the “Yes-No” part of the enterprise. Any notion that Godel would have embraced an argument by analogy from the undecidability of FOL to the perpetual intractability of the k-symbol provability problem is utterly misguided: He [...] If one of the fundamental problems of the technological world is the explosion of information, then it seems to me that the task of ‘sensemaking’ is a burden that must be taken up by both humans and machines. This is where the real power of human-machine collaboration lies: machines are not just tools to [...] |
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