In many ways, the problem of machine learning is a version of thegeneral problem of adaptive evolution, as encounteredfor example in biology. In biology we typically imagine that we want to adaptively optimize some overall “fitness” of a system; in machine learning we ty...
Elementary CA is the simplest non-trivial class of CA. In this CA, cells can have two possible values, either 0 or 1. As a result, this CA can be described by a table specifying the state a cell will have in the next generation based on the value of: the cell to its left the c...
But no matter how the form may vary, the fact that an organism has conscious experience at all means, basically, that there is something it is like to be that organism. There may be further implications about the form of the experience; there may even (though I doubt it) be implications...
The first thing to explain is that what ChatGPT is always fundamentally trying to do is to produce a “reasonable continuation” of whatever text it’s got so far, where by “reasonable” we mean “what one might expect someone to write after seeing what people have written on billions ...
It’s notable that the breakdown of cellular automaton papers is distinctly different from the breakdown of all NKS papers: And it’s a great testament to the importance of simple rules that even among the 256 simplest possible cellular automata, there’ve now been papers written about almost...
(It’s worth emphasizing that there’s no “theory” being used here; it’s just a matter of what’s been found to work in practice. And for example the concept of “temperature” is there because exponential distributions familiar from statistical physics happen to be being used, but ...
of electrical devices is called electronics, so the design of robots could be appropriately called robotics.[3] Before the coining of the term, however, there was interest in ideas similar to robotics (namely automata and androids) dating as far back as the 8th or 7th century BC. In the ...
This is a review of the issue of randomness in quantum mechanics, with special emphasis on its ambiguity; for example, randomness has different antipodal r
We look at the present through a rear-view mirror. We march backward into the future. (Marshall McLuhan ) Introduction. 'Es gibt keine Simulation' What, if anything, is the impact of technology x on science y? While exam- ples of questions of this type have long been ...