from kuber- to guber—the root of “gubernatorial” and “governor,” another term for masculine control, deployed by James Watt to describe his 19th-century device for modulating a runaway steam engine. Cybernetics thus took ideas that had long analogized people and devices and gener...
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Creativity 311 and perspective. Once coded the program takes off and is remarkably creative in its compositions, without any further human intervention. However, each new capability must be hand-coded by its creator, Harold Cohen. These paintings give a good visual interpretatio...
165 companies acted less like management consultants and more like temporary employment agencies in finding for the NSA the computer specialists, who had the necessary security clearances. Unlike intelligence services, their fate depended on turning profits. Since the value of t...
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Known Unknowns 205 spread through the entire body. Think about it. If 1 am allowed to prove anything either way, of course, my system is complete. It can say anything it wants, but the proofs I make are worthless. Let us imagine, for a moment, we created a new system of mathema...
superintelligences is likely to be competitive. Humans might be seen as minor annoyances, like ants at a picnic, but hybrid superintelligences—like corporations, organized religions, and nation states—could be existential threats. Like hybrid superintelligences, Als might see hum...
division has been critiqued by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, myself, and others. We can discuss “should” if framed as “we should do X in order to achieve Y.” Which Y should be a high priority is not necessarily settled by democratic vote but might be settled by Darwinia...
and you turn that special capability to a human purpose, to something you want technology to do. In the case of magnetic materials, there are plenty of ways to do that. In terms of programs, it’s the same story. There are all kinds of programs out there, even tiny programs that d...
During the Festival, I received an unexpected phone call from Wiener’s colleague Arthur K. Solomon, head of Harvard’s graduate program in biophysics. Wiener had died the year before, and Solomon and Wiener’s other close colleagues at MIT and Harvard had been reading about the Exp...
171 telephones (SORM 1), emails and other Internet activity (SORM-2), and computer data storage of billing information (SORM-3). Not only did Russia run a nationwide system of Internet-filtering in 2013, but it requires their telecommunication companies furnish to it worldwide d...
346 A Glossary Goe08. Ben Goertzel. A pragmatic path toward endowing virtually-embodied ais with human-level lin- guistic capability. IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI), 2008. Goe09a. Ben Goertzel. Cognitive synergy: A universal principle of feasible gener...
division has been critiqued by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, myself, and others. We can discuss “should” if framed as “we should do X in order to achieve Y.” Which Y should be a high priority is not necessarily settled by democratic vote but might be settled by Darwinia...
236 Are the Androids Dreaming Yet? commercial software, equating to about 10 words per day. A good typist types at 80 words per minute and most programmers are reasonable typists. So software writers in a big project spend only a minute or so per day in the act of writing. The r...
by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness”? The spectrum of current humans 1s vast. In 1776, “Men” did not include people of color or women. Even today, humans born with congenital cognitive or behavioral is...
pendulum or the pressure of the floor on a weight resting upon it. Faith in this realm came from exercises in physical object visualization followed by manipulation of self-consistent algebraic symbols. | learned about experiments attesting to the “reality” of these ghostly field...