The current means of getting to Heaven involve various supernatural systems for which, at this point, there's no scientific evidence. So I think we can reduce Heaven to an engineering project which we're doing. The demand for Heaven is great-witness the desire of every human heart, from ...
Evidence-based social science may involve all of the humanities and social sciences, but this paper mainly uses “social science” in the sense corresponding to “natural science,” which includes the law, economics, pedagogy, and management, sociology, psychology, etc. The temporary division of k...
Abstract One challenge in explaining neural evolution is the formal equivalence of different computational architectures. If a simple architecture suffices, why should more complex neural architectures evolve? The answer must involve the intense competition for resources under which brains operate. I show...
(au), and these distances can involve a lot of zeros. using scientific notation makes these calculations much more manageable. does scientific notation have applications in computing? scientific notation is often used in computing and programming, especially when dealing with very large or very small...
The expectation maximization algorithm arises in many computational biology applications that involve probabilistic models. What is it good for, and how does it work? This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution Access options Subscription info for Chinese customers We have ...
“The field of artificial intelligence is set to conquer most of the human disciplines; from art and literature to commerce and sociology; from computational biology and decision and analysis to games and puzzles.” ~Anand Krish “Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose fa...
But the presence of computational irreducibility also has another important implication: that even though we can expect to find limited pockets of computational reducibility, we can’t expect a “general narrative explanation” of what a machine learning system does. In other wor...
And a typical example might involve perhaps half a million mathematical operations. But the end result is that if we feed the collection of pixel values for an image into this function, out will come the number specifying which digit we have an image of. Later, we’ll talk about how ...
Yes, human-like consciousness might involve sequentializability. But if the general idea of consciousness is to have a way of “experiencing the universe” that accesses computational reducibility then there are no doubt other ways. It’s a kind of “second-order alienness”: in addi...
“freedom ends at the tip of my nose,” meaning that an individual’s freedom should not infringe upon the rights or freedoms of others. In the context of AI alignment, freedom may involve ensuring that conscious beings can exercise their autonomy, make choices, and pursue their well-being ...