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....as found on Slate.com
By William Saletan
Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007, at 7:25 AM ET
1. The arrival of mind reading.
2. The neural alteration of morality.
3. The medicalization of sexual orientation.
4. The discovery of vegetative consciousness.
5. The progress of artificial intelligence.
Click on the story link for details and very good crossreferences:
www.slate.com/id/2164996>1=9330
By William Saletan
Posted Wednesday, April 25, 2007, at 7:25 AM ET
1. The arrival of mind reading.
2. The neural alteration of morality.
3. The medicalization of sexual orientation.
4. The discovery of vegetative consciousness.
5. The progress of artificial intelligence.
Click on the story link for details and very good crossreferences:
www.slate.com/id/2164996>1=9330
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Re: The Five Biggest Neuroscience Developments of the Year
Sat, April 28, 2007 - 2:13 PMI'm still not wholly convinced about the progress of AI research. Playing chess is a very different activity than composing poetry or engaging in complex social interaction. To put in another way, there are still many more things that humans can do that AI can't. When it comes to raw number crunching (like involved in chess playing) AI always wins. When it comes to subtlety, artistry, emotion, behavior, and real-world problem-solving, humans always win -- by a huge margin.
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Re: The Five Biggest Neuroscience Developments of the Year
Sat, April 28, 2007 - 7:16 PMI've always wondered if we really need AIs to have emotions. I've always thought the biggest advantge of AIs was that they could reason without emotion.
Anyway this will bring us a step closer:
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Re: The Five Biggest Neuroscience Developments of the Year
Sun, April 29, 2007 - 1:18 AMAIs based on cold reason without emotion = KNEEL BEFORE SKYNET, BABY. -
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Re: The Five Biggest Neuroscience Developments of the Year
Thu, May 17, 2007 - 9:57 AMI am not so sure...
Like Neuromancer an Wintermute, may be a different space, and paradigms of existence entity would not be even interested in our existence.
¿How many emotional beings want us to kneel before them?
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Re: The Five Biggest Neuroscience Developments of the Year
Mon, May 14, 2007 - 2:08 AMchess is almost simply pure brute force computing... which is similar to comparing the AI of a calculator to itself.
also consider the game of Go. as of yet computer AI cannot beat a human opponent of medium level skill (there's just way too many combinations to brute force a computer's way through them). there's a lot of study and progress being made into making better AI for this game. but would you consider this AI? it seems more like human progress in the art of programming better computer strategy. perhaps our definition and understanding of computer AI will come closer and closer to our interaction with the development process.
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Re: The Five Biggest Neuroscience Developments of the Year
Thu, May 17, 2007 - 1:13 PMWell, I think it's a step, anyway. Granted, if you started in Manhattan and AI was in Santa Monica, we'd still be in the park, hoping to see a bridge someday. But I'm sure the people who have developed that chess program feel that it and other similar programs amount to finding a bicycle to ride instead of walk.
(thick enough analogy?)
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