My messages to the everything-list: http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list/t/0ba5f90b7e68bccf 03.02.2012 21:23: Craig’s position that computers in the present form do not have emotions is not unique, as emotions belong to consciousness. A quote from my favorite book Jeffrey A. Gray, Consciousness: Creeping up on the Hard Problem The last sentence from the chapter “10.2 Conscious computers?” p. 128 “Our [...]
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Filed under: alife, consciousness
Social Tagging: Jeffrey A. Gray
Filed under: alife, biology
Social Tagging: evolution
Jason Resch on the everything list maked a link to a nice video 20.01.2012 02:34 Jason Resch: “Some have argued that cars are alive. They evolve, consume, move, reproduce and so on. While they are dependent on humans for reproduction, we too depend on a a very specific environment to reproduce. Much like viruses.” Lee Cronin: [...]
Two nice video from the course Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (Unsupervised Learning: Dimensionality Reduction) http://www.ai-class.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuSZmepQA_s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNCHCncvDto
Filed under: alife, philosophy
Social Tagging: intelligence • robotics
A message to the everything-list. I have attended a class Introduction to AI http://www.ai-class.com and there are two interesting videos from it about self-driving cars: Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_BJUBpuvFE Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqDvbguZsAA I have no idea if this are Lobian machines or not (such a term has not been mentioned in the class, it looks like [...]
Stephenk on the everything-list has made a link to Automaton, Know Thyself: Robots Become Self-Aware http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=automaton-robots-become-self-aware Charles Q. Choi, February 24, 2011 So, Lipson and his colleagues developed a robot shaped like a four-legged starfish whose brain, or controller, developed a model of what its body was like. The researchers started the droid off with [...]
Filed under: alife
Social Tagging: Floreano and Mattiussi • intelligence
Dario Floreano and Claudio Mattiussi, Bio-Inspired Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Methods, and Technologies, 2008. Conclusion, p. 585 : “A careful reader have noticed that we have not yet defined what intelligence is. This was done on purpose because intelligence has different meanings for different persons and in different situations. For example, some believe that intelligence is [...]
CIG2010 – K – The Day the Game Came Alive: Virtual Worlds and an Origin of Artificial Life Keynote by Bruce Damer CIG2010 – K – The Day the Game Came Alive: Virtual Worlds and an Origin of Artificial Life from itucph on Vimeo. An interesting talk about ALife history.
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Social Tagging: AGI • intelligence
Dr. Pei Wang – Approaches to Defining and Evaluating General Intelligence http://agi-school.org/2009/approaches-to-defining-and-evaluating-general-intelligence A discussion of AGI. See also http://sites.google.com/site/narswang/home/agi-introduction It is a new name for the original “AI” aim, though not what the current field of AI doing. A complete AGI work normally includes a theory of intelligence, a formal model of the theory, a [...]
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