Tag: Homonculus

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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 31, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

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Alchemy, AlphaGo Zero, Amazon, Artificial Intelligence, Consciousness, COSM, George D. Montanez, Google, Homonculus, Machine Learning, Matt McIlwain, Microsoft, non-algorithmic, Oren Etzioni, Ray Kurzweil, Robert J. Marks, Singularity}

Is Ray Kurzweil’s Singularity Now Nearer — or Impossible?

_{In response to Kurzweil’s talk at the COSM Technology Summit, panelists noted that AI achievements are revolutionary in size but limited by their nature in scope} _{Denyse O'Leary

October 31, 2019

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Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning}

George Montañez, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Harvey Mudd College, took issue with Kurzweil’s claim that AlphaGoZero needed no instructions to beat humans at the game of Go: “For a system like this to work, a human must define the incentive structure, also encoding the assumptions.” The sheer power of a computing system does not cause it to do anything at all.