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The Quest for a Thinking Assistant, Part II

The tools I discussed in my earlier post on this topic only attempt to deal with the storage of information. Organization of knowledge, attempts to integrate various facts or propositions, relies upon the human entirely. The toolsare designedto improve the efficiency with which information can

An Old Kind of Science

In my current thrashing about within AI and computational science topics, I returned once again to consider Wolfram’s New Kind of Science material. In brief review, Steve Wolfram has spent the better part of his life fascinated with computational complexity arising from simple algorithms. Initially

Thoughts on Neural Networks

I’m nearing the completion of On Intelligence, past the point where the author stops presenting his sketch of a theory of intelligence, and moves into the land of speculation. He has answered the question “what is consciousness” in a rather straight-forward manner (it is the