BWE
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| Quote (sledgehammer @ Mar. 03 2010,10:03) | | Quote (BWE @ Mar. 03 2010,08:42) | In the last 5 years, the world changed. Learning algorithms are commonplace, there are dozens of computer models of neural networks which function exactly as they would be expected to, and embodied intelligence has crossed the hurdle of creativity.
If you want a good place to start,
http://www.umass.edu/neuro/faculty/files/siegelmann.html
EDIT: No link on that page to her publications. If you actually care, here is that link:
http://binds.cs.umass.edu/publications.html
this lady has some interesting math she has been working on for quite some time. The list however, is nearly endless. |
Impressive. The work she's doing is real bioinformatics, with practical applications to real-world problems like addiction and circadian responses. Her "Active Information" is on a completely different level from the crap produced by the Evolutionary Informatics "lab" of Dembski, Marks, Sewell and Dodgen.
Regards to randomness, from her 1998 paper "Neural Dynamics With Stochasticity" | Quote | | Randomness is a basic characteristic of large distributed systems. It may result from the activity of the individual agents, from unpredictable changes in the communication pattern among the agents, or even just from the different update paces ... Our particular stochastic model can be seen as an incorporation of the von Neumann model of unreliable interconnections of components to the area of neural networks: the basic component has a fixed probability for malfunction. |
The last is a particularly apt description of my brain, except for the "fixed probability" part :p |
This one here:
http://binds.cs.umass.edu/papers/2008_Olsen_AI.pdf
Is one which I've written a little about in other places. But yes. This is the actual state of the discipline. The issue of quantum consciousness is outdated. The real research has moved on and, like I said, AI is already a reality. Within a decade we will likely have self-awareness from a silicone base.
The difference between now and 5 years ago is the difference between Einstein and Faraday.
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When wished on the morning star
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