The other day, Kevin Warwick and his team reported that their computer program, a chatbot named Eugene Goostman, had become the first artificial intelligence to pass the Turing Test. For those who follow such things, inventor, futurist, and Google’s engineering director, Ray Kurzweil has a standing wager of $20,000 with Mitch Kapor that a … Read more
As my regular readers well know, I don’t think we will ever have human-like robots who can interact with us as though they are not machines. This article from Nautilus presents recent advances in what is known as subsymbolic approaches to AI, “Trying to get computers to behave intelligently without worrying about whether the code … Read more
I think we need to drop the “might” from that headline and replace it with “will.” Still, George Dvorsky gets a big AMEN from me on this piece from io9 (even if it is a year old). For the record, however, I feel compelled to lodge my disagreement with point #5, that “mind-body dualism” is … Read more