Mc Church, McReligion September 23, 2009
I’m Mc Loving it! Whipped this little picture up, Just wondering if anyone has been to a Mc Church lately, you know what I mean, so brand aware that they forgot what they’re getting people in for.
Categorising and naming things September 1, 2009
I am well intrigued by the way the mind works, especially when it comes to trying to emulate the processes of the mind, and there is none more mystical, and perplexing than how we categorise things, categorising seems to me to be the highest skill imaginable in a human, it seems to be the most mystical, the most important, and as a computer scientist, the hardest to emulate, or even model. Of course we categorise things all the time in computing, to look at any website navigation menu, list of links or layout option, it is very obvious that these are categorised, but more often than not they have been deliberately categorised by hand, by a human, and that’s what I’m getting at, we can’t get computers to do it quite yet, although it seems so very simple, natural, and thoughtless for a human, perhaps it’s the biggest difference between us and computers. I don’t know about anyone else, but in every software project I do, I wrestle with the idea of how to program a computer to categorise and name things, it always becomes computer science, and ends in philosophy, this is my david stone, I have a huge chunk of stone like Michaelangelo, and every day I think, I come outside with a chisel, and take a little bit of it…
Why artificial intelligence will become a reality.
I know that we will have artificial intelligence very soon, in fact intelligence which far surpasses our own intelligence, and that it’s possible, because everything humans learn, and express come in through a binary encodable nerve signal, take place in a 3d physical chemical reaction and go out through a binary encodable nerve signal, computers can already model 3d molecules, chemical reactions, and real world physics, so there is nothing to stop a brain from being modeled, in a serialised way inside a computer, with an analogue to digital input and digital to analouge output converter for communication eg sonic. There is nothing really to stop the 3d model from actually being created by a computer now with advances in 3d printing, so there is no reason why a human brain can’t just be “printed” into being in the future, possible out of a substrate that allows neural pathways to grow when they are being used…