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http://intellitech.blogspot.com [Intelligent Technology] Giving computers the ability to think in basically the same manner as we do will allow them to perform highly complex tasks, almost completely unattended. Whether or not the truer forms of thought, like abstraction, creativity, and reflection, are reproduced artificially, artificial intelligence would be of great advantage for helping people relate to technology, especially those who are not technically literate.

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Foresight.org[Foresight.org] Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion » Blog Archive ...: The question you have both raised seems exponentially urgent as the pressures to make rent are becoming very tense at the end of this month. I can say that discussing these issues now is very productive and I hope that such questions will eventually lead to the formation of an Arts/Culture wing of the Foresight Society because we will need some foresight about the social/cultural effects resulting from the implementation of MNT and if there will be any coherant consulting or governing body that leads to the fiscal policies for artists in the future - it will likely be members of the Foresight Institute and/or its memetic descendents themselves that will be in charge of the distribution of material resources and access to those resources.

http://www.pulsethebook.com [Pulsethebook.com] 92 - Real Artificial Life (Part One) » Pulse » Blog Archive: According to Mark Bedau, editor in chief of the journal Artificial Life, “One thing happening now is that people are connecting the results from virtual worlds with real world data.” That is in part now possible due to work by Bedau and Norman Packard, which compares statistics on the creativity of artificial life forms with statistics from the real-world fossil record, and from human patent files. According to Bedau, this indicates that “the biosphere””as reflected in the fossil record””shows a kind of creativity that no one has captured in an artificial life system.” In the first generation of A-Life programs designed by Langton, Ray, and others, the creativity of the system does eventually reach a plateau and stop.

Digg.comhttp://digg.com [Digg.com] digg - Artificial Intelligence Turns 50 Years Old: 2> Conversation is more than a series of questions, but a Turing test is just a series of questions. In case you are un aware, a Turing test is one person asking questions of two different "people" (one is a machine and one is a human, both MUST be trying to answer in such a way as to convince the asker they are human).

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