A few days ago I finally figured out something I've wondered about for 25 years: the relationship between wisdom and intelligence. Anyone can see they're not the same by the number of people who are s
Community. Wisdom of Crowds. Collective Intelligence. The new emphasis on net-enabled collaboration is all goodness and light until somebody gets an eye I poked out. Is it merely a coincidence that Ap
"For those interested in more seriously exploring the issues of Artificial General Intelligence and the Singularity, I’d like to recommend the following writings ..." None of which are sf no
Your brain needs exercise just like a muscle. If you use it often and in the right ways, you will become a more skilled thinker and increase your ability to focus.
Imagine that your only contact with "English" as a subject was through classes in school. Suppose that those classes, from elementary school right through to high school, amounted to nothing
Daniel Tammet is an autistic savant. He can perform mind-boggling mathematical calculations at breakneck speeds. But unlike other savants, who can perform similar feats, Tammet can describe how he doe
The A.L.I.C.E. AI Foundation promotes the adoption of the A.L.I.C.E. and AIML free open source software for chatrobots, chat robots, chatterbots or chatterboxes, an AIML chatterbot, chat robo
Business intelligence is still trying to measure up to inflated expectations, but maybe now we’re getting somewhere. Best practices for BI are beginning to clarify.
"Nine larger robots interact with visitors by following their movements, making defensive actions or opening their "petals" in response to crowds. The more aggressive robots cut the tai
"They told us, 'If we have not published it in our catalogue, then it does not exist.' So I guess we have been tracking objects that do not exist. I can tell you that some of these non-existent o
"The Singularity is the introduction of a nonhuman intelligence, the point where the dangers of the world stop emanating from human beings and start coming from somewhere new for once."
"In my view, if the US government created an "AI Manhattan Project" [...] then we would have a human-level AI within 5 years." Good afternoon, singularity!
"Our ability to handle simultaneous complexity is governed by what cognitive scientists call "fluid intelligence," commonly defined as the ability to find meaning in confusion and to so
"Just like in the real world it can take 20 to 30 thousand generations before the system finds the perfect design to solve the problem, but this will happen in just a few seconds..."
"13: The AI locks onto a bizarre subculture and expresses it across the whole of human space. (E.g., Furry subculture, or hentai anime, or see Nikolai Kingsley for a depiction of a Singularity ba