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Turing and the Chinese Room 1
Two-Thousand-and-twelve marks the centenary of Alan Turing’s birth. Turing, of course, was a British mathematical genius who was preeminent among the “code -breakers”, those who during the Second...
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Turing and the Chinese Room 2
I propose to consider the question, “Can machines think?” Thus began Alan Turing’s 1950 essay Computing Machinery and Intelligence without doubt the most import single piece written on the subject of...
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Iamus Returns
A reader, Dan Fair, kindly posted a link to the release of the full album composed by the artificial intelligence program, Iamus, on the comments section of my piece Turing and the Chinese Room Part 2...
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“Progress in society can be thought of as the evolution of chains….” Phil Auerswald, The Code Economy “I would prefer not to.” Herman Melville, Bartleby the Scrivener The 21st century has proven to...
View ArticleAm I a machine?
A question I’ve been obsessing over lately goes something like this: Is life a form of computation, and if so, is this thought somehow dangerous? Of course, drawing an analogy between life and the most...
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