With thanks to XKCD …
(A proper post on the ‘hidden costs of IT’ to follow after the summer!)
Category Archives: Computer Science
That’s Not What I Meant to Say! (Part 394.3.vii)
A daft one for the summer but a wonderful example of the value of simple English and sound logic.
You may remember this from doing the rounds a few months ago …
Well, we all get the idea – the bad one and the good intention behind it – but just how did this particular road to hell get thus paved?
The Singularity (Still) Isn’t Simple!
The ‘Technological Singularity’ debate rolls on with the publication of a special issue of MDPI’s ‘Information’ Journal: “AI AND THE SINGULARITY: A FALLACY OR A GREAT OPPORTUNITY?”
Papers published in the special edition, to date, include:
- Thinking in Patterns and the Pattern of Human Thought as Contrasted with AI Data Processing
- Technological Singularity: What Do We Really Know?
- Conceptions of Artificial Intelligence and Singularity
- Cosmic Evolutionary Philosophy and a Dialectical Approach to Technological Singularity
- Can Computers Become Conscious, an Essential Condition for the Singularity?
- The Emperor of Strong AI Has No Clothes: Limits to Artificial Intelligence
One of the papers, with an outlook (entirely unsurprisingly) in line with this blog is Vic Grout‘s, “The Singularity isn’t Simple! (However we look at it) A random walk between science fiction and science fact”. The abstract reads as follows:
Under the lamp
Turing's Radiator 