h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

But we all wish you would!

Who's "we all"?

You have some mice in your pocket? Or is there an unseen and unexpressed consensus here that judges against anything new or novel?

I've never been regarded here with one scintilla of respect; and original responses are really tough to come by, in this place.

: ) Emily

Clearly, spontaneous Anything Is possible. Fortunately or not, most imaginings of them are not probable. Spontaneous precipitant evolves both from caricatured Nature (experiments and theories) and, like as not, pure chance constellations of events and matter.
Before attempting to devove the miracle of the human brain upon some logic-controlled device, however, one would do well to consider the nihilistic conclusions to which such a being might arrive, given the current stage of our evolution...

Best Regards to All for a great new circumnavigation;

Slartibartslo

dude thats what we are and the toys that we create can never be like us, they will be our tools , dairies, references, memories but nor us , for we as an organism is everchanging, mutating.
all this hue and cry about computers and artificial Intellegence when we forget the miracle that is a baby, just watch your kids and you will understand what .
Imagine a EMP and bo0om none of the chips will work then wot,
this trying to ape nature has to stop , for it is leading to stupidity,
where has our comman sense gone???
I guess it is no so comman, is it ???

to all
bo0om
fLUXman

Hi

Just joined too.

Haven't got any wisdom to dispense on this subject but if you like thinking/speculating about this kind of stuff you might like "Accelerando" by Charles Stross - it's a sci-fi novel but certainly paints a vivd picture of AI emergence and the resulting issues.

I'm now turning my attention to cake.

Another good read that deals with an emergent AI would be the case of 'Jane' in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Saga.

Obviously one could consult w*k* or search h2g2 which gives quite a number of examples, so a bit dated.

Artifact:
A structure or feature, visible only as a result of external action or experimental error. Also known as disturbance in biopotential signals.

Intelligence:
is a property 'of the mind' that encompasses many related abilities, such as the capacities to reason, to plan, to solve problems, to think abstractly, to comprehend ideas, to use language, and to learn.


The biggest contribution to AI comes from Microsoft as it lead to spontaneous develoment of intelligence in programmers, not to create great programs, but to overcome the problems of it's operating systems.

Artificial intelligence is most frequently encountered at board level in bigger companies or at goverment level when discussing military interventions or general policies.

Not a scientific text, but that SF classic 'Time Enough for Love' by R A Heinlein has an interesting theory about how self awareness in AI arises - and I am assuming when you say spontaneous you mean self awareness in your AI, not AI itself, because by definition 'artificial' means 'made' and hence AI can't be spontaneous. He reckons that in a computer designed for inductive logic, if its treated like a person, then it will gradualy become aware. A bit like tickling a baby and helping develop social interaction. Its an ld book but a good read anyway!