Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Jay Richards at COSM Talks Ray Kurzweil and Strong AI
Is the “singularity” coming, as Kurzweil argues there and elsewhere, when machines equal and then quickly surpass human intelligence?
Remember This: Memory Requires Intelligent Design
The brain assists the organization and recall of thoughts by segmenting them and associating them with stimuli. But who is doing the thinking?
Computer Engineer Robert J. Marks Discusses the Perils and Promise of AI
Marks concedes that a computer code can surprise us — as, for example, when playing the game Go.
Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer”
Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms.
An Invitation: Science, Culture, and the COSM Conference
Discovery is getting ready to enter into a conversation with leaders in the information and technology industry, centered in Seattle.