Tag Archives: AI

Re: Conversations on Strong AI

By Raelifin | Published: August 1, 2011

I am having a conversation with Rod Furlan over on his blog about the possibility of self-preservation being an emergent property of intelligent systems. Just, you know… in case you were curious what I’m up to. Edit: I am commenting. I did not send the original email.

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Clustering and Perception

By Raelifin | Published: June 20, 2011

Rysade asks: What does clustering have to do with perception? All it takes is a question! To start, let’s take a functioning neural net (never mind how it learned), which is a well understood perceptual system. In a NN, each “neuron” is hooked to a bunch of others by weights. As the other neurons activate [...]

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The Golem War

By Raelifin | Published: June 20, 2011

Here is the expanded version (still not what I would consider an “entertaining” level of detail) of a sci-fi plot I talked about on Twitter. I’m thinking it might work well as interactive fiction. Please let me know if it’s too ambiguous or there’s something you don’t like or whatever. – Part 1 – Julio, [...]

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Threats

By Raelifin | Published: May 10, 2011

Earlier today Aaron Saenz, the lead writer at Singularity Hub (an excellent tech news-blog) wrote a piece called The Myth of the Three Laws of Robotics – Why We Can’t Control Intelligence. In it he dismissed fears of “robot apocalypse”, saying: Let’s get something out of the way. I’m not worried about a robot apocalypse. [...]

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Simple Rationality

By Raelifin | Published: March 3, 2011

I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to post this. Several weeks ago I was playing a turn-based fighting game that I love, and I got to thinking “what would an AI that plays this game well look like?” And as I thought about it, it became clear to me that the challenge [...]

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