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Category: Singularity Signposts

  • Singularity’s Apprehensive Approach

    George Rebane ‘Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man’ is the title of an uneven yet revealing piece in the 25jul09 NYT by John Markoff.  The article was apparently motivated by a quiet (‘secret’ sounds too sinister) conference at Asilomar on Monterey Bay sponsored by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence last February.  It…

  • Singularity in Ten Years?

    George Rebane The rise of conscious machines has become an active focus of study in the artificial intelligence community.  Consciousness and intelligence can and should be viewed as independent attributes of a biological critter, and therefore by extension, of a sentient (conscious) and sapient (wise viz intelligent) machine.  RR readers are familiar with my view…

  • ‘Is it Time for the Turing Test to Retire?’

    George Rebane Definitely not.  This question is asked by Dr. Aladdin Ayesh in a brief but serious article with the above title.  I presume Dr. Ayesh is a computer scientist, but he seems to be confused about how Alan Turing proposed his test for machine intelligence or, if you wish, AI almost sixty years ago.…

  • Singularity Signposts – 24jun2009

    George Rebane Forbes.com has an excellent extended survey of the current state and portents of AI and robotics.  ‘The AI Report’ is comprised of 24 short articles for the intelligent non-technical reader.  They range from descriptions of how machine or artificial intelligence is currently being developed and embodied, to how AI and robots are being used…

  • Cosmologos

    George Rebane [This little contribution was motivated by the ongoing debate to nowhere on the various Origin Theories – spot creation, intelligent design, evolution, alien intelligence, … – between atheists of the secular humanist persuasion, and Christian organizations of various stripe – e.g. Discovery Institute, BioLogos Foundation, … .] I am a Christian, although the…

  • Singularity Signposts – 20may2009 Machine Augmented Man (Soon)

    George Rebane Let’s look ahead ten years or so.  You have finished lunch and are about to go back to work when you see something in a store window and go inside.  You examine the article and decide to pull up a couple of similar articles for comparison.  By thinking a command you make an…

  • Singularity Signposts – 11may2009 ‘Physical Intelligence’

    George Rebane Physical Intelligence (PI) is the latest AI paradigm added to the efforts to develop machines smarter than humans.  A few days ago DARPA (Defense Projects Research Agency), the people who brought you the Internet and other spooky things you shouldn’t know about, posted a notice announcing informational workshops as a preamble to issuing RFPs…

  • Singularity Signposts – 3may2009 (8may09 update)

    George Rebane Stephen Wolfram may just be on to the next big thing on the internet.  He and the boys and girls at Wolfram Research, Inc. are scheduled to launch Wolfram Alpha, a “computational knowledge engine” for the web.  This engine is designed to “compute the answer to all factual questions”, questions the answer to…

  • Cognitive Radio??!!??!!

    George Rebane With the recent explosion of mobile intelligent devices, cell phones, PDAs, laptops, netbooks, etc, etc, all speaking wirelessly to each other through various networks (clouds), the airwaves have become very crowded.  The electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is pretty much fixed by the design of our universe, so it looked like we were going to…

  • Singularity Signposts – 4apr2009

    George Rebane There has been another significant advance in machine intelligence.  Two projects have demonstrated that machines will now start doing independent research that can lead to new discoveries.  Adam, an artificial critter, did an experiment in yeast genetics to prove a longstanding hypothesis, ‘he’ did it with very minimal human intervention. Adam has cost…

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