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Conversation: Morphogenesis for the Design of Design [ 7.31.19 ]
... virtual world. One of my students built and runs all the computers Facebook runs on, one of my students used to run all the computers Twitter runs on—this is because I taught them to not ...
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Conversation: AI That Evolves in the Wild [ 8.14.19 ]
... could have a mind and intelligence that has no technology at all. Freeman always pointed out that the search for extraterrestrial ... Stanislaw Ulam said to everybody in the room—they’re all mathematicians—"What makes you so sure that mathematical logic ...
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Conversation: The Language of Mind [ 8.8.19 ]
... especially the human mind. The mind is something that we all know we have. When it comes to AI systems, AI researchers are not quite sure what to make of this. All sorts of questions arise: What is it? What would it be for an AI system to ...
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Conversation: Epistemic Virtues [ 8.21.19 ]
... are arbitrary and overly precise—there was a desire above all to find the objects that were in back of the objects that we happen to see. ... to me or you, but the skull that belonged behind all the particular skulls that we might see. There was a fear of the ...
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Conversation: Ecology of Intelligence [ 7.23.19 ]
... success of Moore’s law has been absolutely central to all of the developments in artificial intelligence and the evolution of ... For one thing, it’s much more compact. It makes use of all three dimensions, whereas existing semiconductor technology is basically ...
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Conversation: Perception As Controlled Hallucination [ 6.6.19 ]
... of conscious experience. And if any theory were able to do all of those things, it would certainly be worth taking seriously. I lie awake wondering whether any theory could be so good as to be doing all these things at once, but that's what we'll be talking about. A place ...
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Conversation: Mining the Computational Universe [ 5.30.19 ]
... What that implies is that sophisticated computation is all around us. It’s not something that we humans have very sophisticatedly ... the Turing level of sophisticated computation that we see in all these different kinds of systems—whether physics and the fundamental ...
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Conversation: A Separate Kind of Intelligence [ 7.10.19 ]
... way of resolving the explore-exploit tradeoffs that you see all the time in AI. One of the problems that you have characteristically in AI ... acting in the world, performing the four Fs and doing all the other things that we need to do as adults. An interesting ...
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Conversation: Humans: Doing More With Less [ 7.16.19 ]
... generally, you only have one system that is capable of doing all of those different kinds of things, and that system is human beings. ... organism, whether it be a human being or a computer, because all realistic organisms are limited in the amount of computation that they have ...
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Conversation: Polythetics and the Boeing 737 MAX [ 7.16.19 ]
... which will be published to the same analytical standards as all our discoveries. The point here is a simple one, however: I guessed ... difference among members of a class of artefact that all function equally well (or badly): one chair is made of dark wood, carved ...