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Conversation: Questioning the Cranial Paradigm [ 6.19.19 ]
... us to think about the gut-brain axis and the powerful analog system of our immune brain, also thought of as a mobile brain. The cranial ... do we mean when we say the word "intelligence"? The immune system is the fascinating, distributed, mobile, circulating system that learns ...
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Conversation: The Language of Mind [ 8.8.19 ]
... of questions arise: What is it? What would it be for an AI system to have a mind? What’s the research project? Today, I’m just ... mechanisms. In AI systems, however, you don’t start with a system that you know is conscious. It's very difficult to know what operational ...
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Conversation: A Separate Kind of Intelligence [ 7.10.19 ]
... imitation game as a way of trying to figure out whether a system is intelligent or not, but what people often don’t appreciate is that ... that are going to learn about the external world, the system that we know of that does that better than anything else is a human ...
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Conversation: AI That Evolves in the Wild [ 8.14.19 ]
... control systems in nature are analog. The smallest analog system has the full power of the continuum. On the other side, you have the ... fluctuates by how much power you’re consuming based on the system you’re in, that’s a constant, and so reducing the fluctuation ...
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Conversation: Humans: Doing More With Less [ 7.16.19 ]
... than computers can, but, more generally, you only have one system that is capable of doing all of those different kinds of things, and that system is human beings. The current trend in machine learning is one of ...
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Conversation: Epistemic Virtues [ 8.21.19 ]
... up here. One of them has to do with how much access the system has to its own processes. The other one, which is the scientific problem, has to do with whether the system is outputting a representation of what’s actually out there in the ...
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Conversation: Morphogenesis for the Design of Design [ 7.31.19 ]
... degrees of freedom to solve digital problems. A digital system lives on the corner of a hypercube, but what we did in that chip company ... property isn’t one and zero; it’s the states in the system. In the end, what these interior point and relaxation methods do ...
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Conversation: Ecology of Intelligence [ 7.23.19 ]
... in all kinds of animals, and maybe even in our digestive system and immune system. Artificial intelligence is all kinds at all levels. Some people would ...
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Conversation: Mining the Computational Universe [ 5.30.19 ]
... machines and other kinds of things—as soon as you have a system whose behavior is not obviously simple, you end up getting something ... cellular automata or Turing machines, and you say, "Does the system do sophisticated computation or not?" The surprising discovery is that ...
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Conversation: Polythetics and the Boeing 737 MAX [ 7.16.19 ]
... especially as the aircraft was built without a fuel-eject system, meaning it might be forced to land shortly after take-off, still ... where standard landing had to involve an active autopiloting system, and where the shape of the leading edge of the wing had to be regulated ...