Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Philosophy Club
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Emergentism
Sand dunes are an example of emergence
How does the mind work? First we have to think of the brain's function as a complex system, what is also known as an integrative level.
Heeeeeere's Bina 48!
In class we've talked Allan Turing's Test for computer intelligence. Well, hereeee's is Bina 48!
Do you think she's smart?
Monday, February 14, 2011
Lately we've been talking about A.I.
Don't miss this article in TIME Magazine: The word singularity is borrowed from astrophysics: it refers to a point in space-time — for example, inside a black hole — at which the rules of ordinary physics do not apply. In the 1980s the science-fiction novelist Vernor Vinge attached it to Good's intelligence-explosion scenario. At a NASA symposium in 1993, Vinge announced that "within 30 years, we will have the technological means to create super-human intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended."