Human AI Theory About to be Tested

Originally Posted by RobynC

@sprinkles
Are you advocating killing the elderly?

Do disclaimers even mean anything? Why do I even bother to make them...

I already stated in the post you just got done reading that I do not prescribe anything about this.

In other words: No. I don't.

Originally Posted by RobynC

Are you advocating killing the elderly?

No need at all, de-industrialism will do it on it's own without human intervention. Like I said before, a lot of people who depend on modern medicine to survive have their days numbered. After de-industrialism only those who can live without modern medicine will be alive. What is now curable will become deadly again.

Originally Posted by wuliheron

Computer scientist leads the way to the next revolution in artificial intelligence

While IBM has taken the brute force reductionist approach to reproducing much of the intelligence of the mammalian brain, these researchers have taken the more ethereal theoretical approach. Exactly what their theory is all about I haven't a clue, but now would be a good time for people to explain possibly before the computers start to explain to us themselves.

The IBM effort like most all brute force efforts trying to reproduce natural systems will always fall far short.

The link describes scientists who are trying to build a bridge back to continuous systems from the naturally discrete computer science world we are used to, i.e., Turing machines. It's interesting how we've moved from the analog world, e.g., solving differential equations and simulating chaos with electrical circuits, to the discrete digital signal processing world, and now slowly back to the analog world again.

Computation in the analog world is much more powerful than that in the discrete world, because infinitely many number of combinations are tested extremely quickly to hone in on the solution, e.g., optimization. The problem is formulating a problem in the analog domain. Suppose we formulated a difficult problem, e.g., not computable by a Turing machine, in terms of a reaction of multiple chemicals, then every millisecond in the mixture the chemicals are interacting infinitely many times, thereby converging on the solution, which would have taken a Turing machine infinite time to complete.

The future is in analog computing, however it usually takes exceptionally intelligent people to formulate the problems properly in that domain. This is why we don't have many examples from which we could obtain analogues.