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Both strong artificial intelligence (here in the sense of sentient/conscious AI) and faster than light travel (FTL) are dreams of science fiction and (some parts of) humanity, but what is the difference between the two?
Proposing FTL today is pretty much a lost cause (although there are interesting ideas such as the Alcubierre Drive - at [...]

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This post of Eli has many links and may be a good occasion for delving into some of the issues he has been talking about lately.
Overcoming Bias: Heading Toward Morality
Why? Because that is the conclusion he is drawing to:
Artificial Intelligence melts people’s brains. Metamorality melts people’s brains. Trying to think about AI and [...]

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Peter Turney has a short post (with a link to a post by Terry Tao) on genius, IQ and passion. I agree with him fully. What counts is passion and hard, hard work.
Creativity will come from working passionately in the field - novel approaches will “pop” into your mind (actually, it’s just your brain rewiring [...]

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Paul Graham has a wonderful essay online, reading time approximately 10 minutes: Lies We Tell Kids
(The essay was brought to my notice via overcomingbias.com)
Some quotes:
This sentence is gold:
The truth is common property. You can’t distinguish your group by doing things that are rational, and believing things that are true. If you want to set [...]

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Gärdenfors has a book “Conceptual Spaces” which I haven’t got around to reading yet (it’s not on the ultrapriority queue, only on the normal priority queue )
The blog entry below has a few links to the central concepts of Gärdenfors’ theory. I agree with the need for integrating different levels (symbolic, connectionist and spatial [...]

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A very moving and sad story.
Two AI Pioneers. Two Bizarre Suicides. What Really Happened?

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To all those singularity doubters: biological engineering is upon us, and will change our ways more than can yet be imagined:
Cyborg moths Times Online

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This sounds interesting: Numenta - numenta.com
Numenta was formed to develop and promote a technology called Hierarchical Temporal Memory, or HTM. We are confident that the principles underlying HTM are the same principles that govern much of the operation of the human neocortex; thus, HTM enables the creation of machines that have some of the capabilities [...]

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Increasing evidence points to the possibility of octopi being intelligent: Developing Intelligence : Platform-Independent Intelligence: Octopus Consciousness
Why is this important? Because their brain architecture is different from ours (humans), it may help extract necessary and sufficient conditions for intelligence and consciousness. This will hopefully further our quest toward developing a conscious AI.

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Here is a nice post on differences between brains and computers: Developing Intelligence : 10 Important Differences Between Brains and Computers
To make one thing clear: I do not think that artificial intelligence is impossible, on the contrary, I do think that we will be able to develop an artificial intelligence. But paramount to this effort [...]

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