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 CEFOTAJ Business Proposal Jacmel, Haiti  Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Background 4 Country Profile Background 5 General Geographical and Macroeconomic Situation 5 U.S. and Haiti Relationship 6 Haiti before th...

TECH PROPHECY AND THE UNDERAPPRECIATED CAUSAL POWER OF IDEAS Steven Pinker Steven Pinker, a Johnstone Family Professor in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, is an experimental psychologist who conducts research in visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social...

methods he and others developed for the control of missiles, for example, were later put to work in building the Saturn V moon rocket, one of the crowning engineering achievements of the 20th century. In particular, Wiener’s applications of cybernetic concepts to the brain and to...

Preface This is a large, two-part book with an even larger goal: To outline a practical approach to engineering software systems with general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond. Machines with flexible problem-solving ability, open-ended learning capability, cr...

The roboticist Rodney Brooks, featured in Errol Morris’s 1997 documentary Fast, Cheap and Out of Control along with a lion-tamer, a topiarist, and an expert on the naked mole rat, was described by one reviewer as “smiling with a wild gleam in his eye.’ But that’s pretty much true...

Free Will Universe believe we live in a Universe where information comes into existence through the creative endeavors of human beings. When Andrew Wiles discovered his solution to Fermat’s Last Theorem, he did something a computer cannot do and demonstrated non-computational...

or are too “high frequency” (like static) rather than “low frequency” (more continuous, like actual real-world features). Just because AI systems sometimes end up in local minima, don’t conclude that this makes them any less like life. Humans—indeed, probably all life-forms—are...

the (currently) esoteric domain of self-reproducing machines—to the power and versatility of neurons and their synapses. This could become a new, great frontier of research. Here too, biology might point the way, as we come to understand biological development well enough to imit...

In 2005, George Dyson, a historian of science and technology, visited Google at the invitation of some Google engineers. The occasion was the sixtieth anniversary of John von Neumann's proposal for a digital computer. After the visit, George wrote an essay, “Turing’s Cathedral,”...

the (currently) esoteric domain of self-reproducing machines—to the power and versatility of neurons and their synapses. This could become a new, great frontier of research. Here too, biology might point the way, as we come to understand biological development well enough to imit...

…n dehumanized in this particular way, there should be little to no activity in those areas of the brain associated with thinking, feeling, wanting, and believing. To explore this possibility, the social psychologist Susan Fiske placed subjects in a brain scanner and presented pho...

…uild models? Psychologists think about models of the mind, as do computer scientists and philosophers who specialize in thinking about thinking. Architects and economists build models of a different sort. Engineers work with models regularly. All of these people use different mod...