by orchaeus | Apr 1, 2021 | Shared Link
https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-institute/ieee-member-news/stop-calling-everything-ai-machinelearning-pioneer-saysI’ve been trying for many years to get common people to understand that AI … isn’t. It’s not intelligence, at all, and calling it...
by orchaeus | Mar 31, 2021 | Shared Link
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-empty-brain?utm_source=pocket-newtab”Worse still, even if we had the ability to take a snapshot of all of the brain’s 86 billion neurons and then to simulate the state of those neurons in a computer, that vast pattern...
by orchaeus | Mar 31, 2021 | Status Update
I will call the sum of our faculties ‘the mind’, though it’s a complex non-entity. It is never entirely local. It has dimensions we have no language for. One might present a problem where the mind is ‘like’ seven hands. Each finger has...
by orchaeus | Mar 31, 2021 | Status Update
I trust in, and listen carefully, to such fragments of awareness that may find their way to me from older peoples… alive now… and in records. This trust is based on something simple and primordial. Such peoples had, in general, not yet lost their essential...
by orchaeus | Mar 30, 2021 | Status Update
The assurance of »privacy, it turns out, is absolutely imperative to a variety of nonordinary faculties that disappear under malpurposed observation. Conversely, there are a variety of such faculties and abilities that are enhanced by positive observation. Any child...
